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Former Rep. Stephen Buyer was convicted of insider trading.

Profited $350,000 from illicit trades

Buyer had created a consulting company after leaving Congress in 2011. He used confidential information of clients to trade stocks.

In 2018, while consulting for T-Mobile, he learned that the company planned to acquire Sprint. He used that proprietary information to purchase shares of Sprint, which he sold after the purchase for a profit of more than $125,000.

In 2019, while consulting for Guidehouse LLP, he learned that the company planned to acquire Navigant Consulting. He used that proprietary information to purchase shares of Navigant, which he sold after the purchase for a profit of more than $225,000.

During his 2023 trial he also provided false explanations for the trades.

According to the pardon statement, current members of Congress endorsing Buyer's pardon include...

For more, read the New York Times article.

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Adriana and Andres Camberos (sister and brother) were convicted of fraudulently selling counterfeit food products - making millions of dollars from the scheme.

Recidivism Update:
This was the second time Donald Trump granted clemency to Adriana Camberos. At the end of his first term as president he commuted her sentence for a similar scheme (under her previous last name Shayota).

For more, read the News in Five article.
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Cannon was a former professional football player for the Houston Oilers, Oakland Raiders, and Kansas City Chiefs.

In 1983 he was charged with printing $6 million worth of counterfeit $100 bills. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 5 years in prison.

Cannon died in 2018.

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For more, read the News in FiVe story.

Click here to read the clemency grant for Todd Chrisley.
Click here to read the clemency grant for Julie Chrisley.

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Rep. Henry Cuellar was indicted for bribery.

Imelda Rios Cuellar - his wife - was indicted for laundering the money he received.

For more, read the News in Five article.
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Davis conspired with Matthew Geouge to defeat emission control systems on thousands of vehicles in violation of the Clean Air Act.

In April 2023, Davis reached an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop selling or supporting devices that defeat vehicles' emissions control systems.

Click here to read sentencing press release that includes Davis' sentence.
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Elite Diesel Inc. is owned by diesel mechanic Troy Lake. In 2024, Lake was charged with instructing company employees to disable emissions control hardware on more than 325 heavy-duty commercial trucks from 2017 through 2020. This violated the Clean Air Act - which prohibits tampering with the devices.

According to a Department of Justice press release, tampering on these trucks "caused an illegal increase in pollutants" of at least:

Diesel exhaust is a known carcinogen and causes lung cancer. It also is associated with asthma and an increased risk of death from cardiovascular and respiratory disease. These effects disproportionately occur in low-income communities near highways and high-traffic areas, the press release states.

The pardon was prompted in part by a letter from Wyoming House Speaker Chip Neiman. It was issued in the name of the company, which also applies to Lake.

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Gentile was convicted in 2024 of defrauding more than 10,000 investors out of $1.6 billion. His company, GPB Capital Holdings, effectively ran a Ponzi scheme - paying earlier investors with money from later investors rather than from investment returns.

He was sentenced to 7 years in prison, but had served just 12 days before being released.

Though Gentile's prison sentence was commuted, he was not pardoned. His conviction and other penalties remain on the books.

For more, read the News In Five article.
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Geouge and his company sold tools that allowed customers to defeat emission control systems on thousands of vehicles in violation of the Clean Air Act.

According to the indictment against Geouge, when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cited his company - Spartan Diesel Technologies - and ordered them to stop, he effectively dissolved the company and started a new one. The new company - Patriot Diagnostic - bought all of Spartan's equipment and hired all of their employees.

Geouge received more than $10 million from selling the illegal tools. The indictment also accused him of concealing that income from the EPA and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Click here to read the Bill of Information on Geouge's indictment.
Click here to read the clemency grant.

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Jack Harvard was convicted for facilitating two fraudulent loans - one of which was for more than $1 million. He received fees or bribes for his help.

Though not directly related to his crimes, Harvard was mayor of Plano, TX from 1982 -1990. He founded and was CEO of Willow Bend National Bank. The bank failed in 1990, costing taxpayers $25 million.

Harvard previously had applied for a pardon in 2008 from George W. Bush and in 2013 from Barack Obama. Both rejected his request. His attorney for his request to Trump was Peter Ticktin, who has assisted in other Trump pardons and says he has known Trump since they were 15 years old.

Click here to read a description of the various fraudulent loans Harvard facilitated and profited from.
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For more, read the Dallas Morning News article.

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Tim Leiweke was charged with violating anti-monopoly laws in depriving the University of Texas of a fair bidding process in the construction and operation of a new arena.

He had been investigated and indicted earlier this year - by President Donald Trump's own Department of Justice. The case had yet to go to trial.

For more, read the News in Five article.
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In 2024, Terren Peizer was convicted of insider trading - gaining more than $12 million by selling his company's stock based on news not yet publicly known.

In 2025, He was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in prison,

For more, read the News In Five article.
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Former Rep. George Santos was indicted on several charges of campaign fraud and identity theft. He pleaded guilty to some of the charges and was sentenced to more than 7 years in prison.

He had served 3 months of the sentence before Pres. Donald Trump commuted his sentence.

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Joseph Schwartz operated a chain of nursing homes. He withheld at least $39 million in payroll taxes from 15,000 employees that he didn't report or pay to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

He pled guilty in November 2024, and in April 2025, he was sentenced to 3 years in prison. Schwartz had served 3 months of that sentence when President Donald Trump pardoned him.

The conviction Schwartz was serving time for, however, was only a part of his history of defrauding the federal government.

For more, read the News in Five article.

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Click here to read the indictment against Schwartz

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On Sept. 26, 2025 Smith pleaded guilty to filing fraudulent tax returns.

Smith is a tax preparer in Winter Haven, Florida. In 2023 and 2025 he, along with four others, filed almost 100 falsified returns that claimed millions of dollars more in losses than the actual amounts.

Smith personally profited $274,000 in unwarranted refunds from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). He was sentenced to 6-1/2 years in prison.

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Darryl Strawberry is a former Major League Baseball player.

He pleaded guilty to tax evasion in 1995 for failing to report almost a half-million dollars in income from selling sports memorabalia.

For more, read the The Hill article.
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Walczak was convicted of stealing more than $10 million his company withheld from employees taxes but did not pay to the federal government.

Walczak's mother has been a financial supporter of Trump - including hosting a 2020 fundraiser at which a diary stolen from then-candidate Joe Biden's daughter Ashley was passed around.

He had not yet begun his 1-1/2 year prison term.

For more, read the News in FiVe story.
Click here to read the clemency grant.

Changpeng (CZ) Zhao is the former CEO of the cryptocurrency company Binance. In 2023, he pleaded guilty to failing to prevent money laundering. He served 4 months in prison.

For more, read the NewsInFive article.
Click here to read the clemency grant.

Click here to read the clemency grant.