In 2021, a convicted fraudster named Adriana Camberos was freed from prison when President Trump commuted her sentence. Rather than taking advantage of that second chance, prosecutors said, Ms. Camberos returned to crime. She and her brother were convicted in 2024 in an unrelated fraud. This week, Mr. Trump pardoned both siblings, marking the second time Mr. Trump had opened the prison gates for Ms. Camberos.

Their pardons were among a handful of clemency grants quietly issued by Mr. Trump this week. Among the other lucky recipients: a man whose daughter had given millions to a Trump-backed super PAC, a former governor of Puerto Rico and a former F.B.I. agent — all of whom had pleaded guilty in a political corruption case.

Source: nytimes.com.

  • DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    How much more ridiculousness can this bloke create ? I can only shake my head in disbelief so much.

    My brain is wobbling around in my skull. My head is about to fall off.

    I’m completely baffled here in Australia watching from afar.

    Everything is just “opposite day” over there.