Trump pardoning Puerto Rico's former governor Wanda Vzquez, sources say

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Source: CBS News

Updated on: January 16, 2026 / 12:47 PM EST


President Trump plans to pardon Puerto Rico's former governor, Wanda Vázquez Garced, who pleaded guilty last year in a federal public corruption case, multiple sources told CBS News on Friday.

Her two co-defendants, the billionaire Venezuelan-Italian banker and Britannia Financial Group founder Julio Martin Herrera-Velutini and Mark Rossini, will also be pardoned for their crimes in the bribery scheme, two of the sources said.

The Justice Department's Public Integrity Section, which last year was largely dismantled, charged the three in 2022 with conspiracy, federal programs bribery, and honest services wire fraud in connection with Vázquez's 2020 campaign. All three defendants pleaded guilty to lesser corruption charges in August, after the Justice Department abruptly cut a deal with the defendants as the case was nearing trial.

Among the defense attorneys who helped broker the deal with Mr. Trump's Justice Department was Chris Kise, who previously defended the president over criminal charges that he retained classified information after departing the White House in early 2021.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-pardoning-puerto-rico-former-governor-wanda-vazquez-officials-say/

[Ocelot II]

1. Isn't it interesting how people convicted of public corruption and other forms of white-collar fraud

somehow manage to get pardoned?

[tirebiter]

2. Trumps crime buddies, anyway.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Trump-pardoned disgraced congressman Duncan Hunter working for pardon for child pornographer Raymond Liddy

Hunter is using what’s left of his political influence to help Raymond Liddy, son of infamous Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy, escape his conviction for child pornography.

Today, Duncan D. Hunter and Raymond Liddy are both convicted felons, and the former congressman is lobbying President Donald Trump to pardon Liddy, who is the son of a notorious Watergate figure and was convicted of possessing child pornography.

According to a federal disclosure filed late last year, Hunter is working to secure a pardon for the son of G. Gordon Liddy, who went to prison for overseeing the break-in of Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel and other crimes that drove Richard Nixon from the White House.
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The single-page document shows that Marquez and Hunter are seeking a presidential pardon for Liddy, who was convicted in 2020 of possessing child pornography.
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Liddy, who is 62 and lives in a $6 million home in Coronado, was sentenced to five years of probation following his criminal conviction in a bench trial, which means the case was decided by a judge rather than a jury.
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Among the violations, records show, Liddy was arrested for drunken driving in South San Diego County in 2021. According to court records, he threatened his probation officer, called her a racial slur and repeatedly abused drugs and alcohol.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/01/12/disgraced-congressman-duncan-hunter-got-a-trump-pardon-now-he-wants-one-for-another-notorious-san-diego-son-of-washington/

[Cheezoholic]

4. This is what Crypto is for. Stash your Felonious cash in Crypto accounts and then pay a Felonious Prez for a pardon n/t