Trump dropped a pardon for Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar, who was staring down federal charges about taking 600k in bribes from an Azerbaijani oil company and a Mexican bank. The congressman and his wife, Imelda, got hit with bribery and money laundering accusations for allegedly influencing US policy toward Azerbaijan and pressuring officials on behalf of the bank through shell company consulting scams.
The pardon wrecks another Justice Department case after the public integrity section already got nuked over the Eric Adams situation, and career prosecutors saw this coming for months since Trump keeps trashing corruption cases filed before he took office. Cuellar thanked the president on social media while Trump blamed the whole thing on Biden weaponizing the DOJ against someone who criticized border policies.
This adds to Trump's 2000-plus pardons that range from Jan 6 rioters to the former Honduran president convicted of smuggling 400 tons of cocaine, and he even commuted some private equity fraudster's sentence right after the guy started his prison term.
The pardon wrecks another Justice Department case after the public integrity section already got nuked over the Eric Adams situation, and career prosecutors saw this coming for months since Trump keeps trashing corruption cases filed before he took office. Cuellar thanked the president on social media while Trump blamed the whole thing on Biden weaponizing the DOJ against someone who criticized border policies.
This adds to Trump's 2000-plus pardons that range from Jan 6 rioters to the former Honduran president convicted of smuggling 400 tons of cocaine, and he even commuted some private equity fraudster's sentence right after the guy started his prison term.
