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- That came after she was 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. Then in 2024, she and her brother, Andres, were convicted in a separate case – 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 on Thursday, along with eight commutations.
- Others were for the father of a large donor to his super PAC and former governor of Puerto Rico Wanda Vázquez, who had pleaded guilty to a campaign finance violation. An additional pardon was announced on Friday for Terren Peizer, a resident of Puerto Rico and California who headed the Miami-based healthcare company Ontrak. Peizer had been convicted and sentenced to 42 months in prison, and fined $5.25m, for engaging in an insider trading scheme to avoid losses exceeding $12.5m, according to the US 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. Explore more on these topicsDonald TrumpUS justice systemUS politicsnewsShareReuse this content.
