Trump pardons businesswoman convicted of second fraud scheme

On Jan. 16, 2026, Trump pardoned Adriana Camberos and her brother Andres Camberos for a fraud scheme that defrauded manufacturers of $48.8 million. This was Adriana's second fraud conviction and second clemency grant from Trump.

A federal jury convicted Adriana and Andres in 2024 for lying to food and consumer goods manufacturers. They claimed they would export products to Mexico or sell to prisons and rehabilitation centers to get steep wholesale discounts. Instead, they resold the products in the U.S. market at full retail prices and pocketed the difference.

Between 2019 and 2023, the Camberos siblings' companies sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of diverted goods. Prosecutors said they made tens of millions in illegal profits by defrauding manufacturers who offered discounts for specific export or institutional use.

Adriana Camberos was sentenced on June 26, 2025, to 12 months and one day in prison, three years of supervised release, and $48.8 million in restitution. She began serving her sentence in August 2025. Andres received three years of probation and the same restitution amount.

This was Adriana's second fraud conviction. In 2016, a jury convicted her of conspiracy to traffic counterfeit 5-Hour Energy drinks. She and her then-husband manufactured and sold 3.7 million fake bottles of the energy supplement. She was sentenced to 26 months in federal prison in 2017.

On Jan. 19, 2021, the final day of Trump's first term, he commuted Adriana's sentence for the 5-Hour Energy fraud. She was released from prison roughly halfway through her 26-month sentence. Federal prosecutors in San Diego alleged that she began the new wholesale fraud scheme just weeks after her release.

Trump's Jan. 16, 2026 pardon was a full and unconditional pardon for both siblings. It eliminated Adriana's remaining prison time, wiped out the $48.8 million restitution obligation to victims, and erased the conviction from her record. The manufacturers who were defrauded won't receive the money they're owed.