President Donald Trump issued a flurry of pardons in recent days, including for the father of a large donor to his super PAC, a former governor of Puerto Rico and a woman whose sentence he commuted during his first term but who ended up back in prison for a different scheme. Trump commuted the sentence of Adriana Camberos just before his first stint in the White House ended in 2021. That followed her being convicted as part of an effort to divert 5-Hour Energy drink bottles acquired for resale in Mexico and instead keep them in the US. Prosecutors said she and several co-conspirators attached counterfeit labels and filled the bottles with a phony liquid before selling them. In 2024, she and her brother, Andres, were convicted in a separate case, this one involving lying to manufacturers to sell wholesale groceries and additional items at big discounts after pledging that they were meant for sale in Mexico or to prisoners or rehabilitation facilities.

The siblings sold the products at higher prices to US distributors, prosecutors said. The Camberoses were among 13 pardons Trump issued Thursday, along with eight commutations. An additional pardon was announced Friday for Terren Peizer, a resident of Puerto Rico and California who headed the Miami-based health care company Ontrak. Peizer had been convicted and sentenced to 42 months in prison, and fined USD 5.25 million, for engaging in an insider trading scheme to avoid losses exceeding USD 12.5 million, according to the Justice Department. The president has issued a number of clemencies during the first year of his second term, many targeted at criminal cases once touted by federal prosecutors. They`ve come amid a continuing Trump administration effort to erode public integrity guardrails, including the firing of the Justice Department`s pardon attorney.