Pardons and Clemency

Dec. 2 - Axios published a letter that Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández sent to President Trump a month before Trump promised to pardon him from a 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking and firearms charges. (Letter.) (Axios.) Hernández was released from prison on Monday. (Reuters.)
Dec. 1 - President Trump commuted the seven-year sentence of private-equity executive David Gentile 12 days after he began serving time for his role in what prosecutors called a $1.6 billion fraud scheme. (NYT.)
Nov. 24 - Nursing home magnate Joseph Schwartz paid nearly $1 million to lobbyists who reported they were “seeking a federal pardon” shortly after he was sentenced for a $38 million tax fraud scheme. Trump granted a full and unconditional pardon on Nov. 14 despite the recommendation by Trump’s Justice Department for a prison term in March. (Lobbying report.) (WaPo.)
Nov. 10 - U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin announced on Sunday that President Trump has “pardoned the 2020 Alternative Electors,” as well as others involved in efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election. (Politico.) (X.)
Nov. 4 - When asked about his decision to pardon cryptocurrency billionaire Changpeng Zhao during an interview on “60 Minutes” on Sunday, President Trump said, “I don’t know who he is.” (NYT.)
Oct. 29 - Attorney General Pam Bondi stated that her office has “initiated a review of the Biden administration’s reported use of autopen for pardons” after a report published on Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee questioned the pardons’ validity. (X.) (Axios.)
Oct. 20 - President Trump on Friday commuted former U.S. Representative George Santos’s prison sentence. (WSJ.)