Cuellar and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, were charged with accepting $600,000 from Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank in exchange for Cuellar promoting their interests in Congress.

The pardon of Hernández is one of dozens issued by the US president over the past year to an array of convicted fraudsters, drug traffickers, tax evaders and unregistered foreign agents that have upended the American justice system and angered many within his own coalition.

WASHINGTON ‒ Presidential turkey pardons are typically light-hearted holiday affairs with lots of fowl puns before Thanksgiving. But President Donald Trump took his Nov. 25 pardons of Gobble and Waddle in a different direction as he used remarks in the ...

Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife have been pardoned for federal bribery and conspiracy charges by President Donald Trump.

"Any and all Documents, Proclamations, Executive Orders, Memorandums or Contracts, signed by Order of the now infamous and unauthorised "AUTOPEN" within the Administration of Joseph R. Biden Jr., are hereby null, void and of no further force or effect," Trump said in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) condemned the president's decision to pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez. The Central American ex-president was sentenced to 45 years in prison.