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Glen Casada

Pardon

  /   2025–Present

Record at a Glance

Clemency type
Pardon
Presidential term
2025–Present
Federal district
Middle Tennessee
Offense
Conspiracy to defraud the United States; honest services wire fraud (four counts); use of a fictitious name to carry out a fraud; conspiracy to commit money laundering; money laundering (eight counts)
Sentence
36 months' imprisonment; one year's supervised release (September 23, 2025)
Current status
On February 5, 2026, the district court granted an unopposed government motion and vacated Casada's convictions, sentence, and criminal judgment after the pardon. This is case-specific post-pardon court relief.

Original Case

A jury convicted Casada in a scheme using a concealed political-mail business to obtain taxpayer-funded payments. DOJ identifies honest-services fraud, money laundering and related conspiracy offenses. He received 36 months in prison on September 23, 2025; the exact verdict count inventory requires the judgment.

Clemency

Trump granted Casada a full and unconditional pardon on November 7, 2025 after his three-year prison sentence had been imposed. The grant relieved the federal punishment; in February 2026, the district court separately vacated the convictions, sentence, and judgment on the government’s unopposed motion.

Trump Connection

Casada was a former Republican speaker of the Tennessee House, but no personal relationship with Trump or named clemency advocate appears in the public record. An unnamed White House official told AP that the Biden Justice Department had significantly over-prosecuted Casada and Cade Cothren. That supplies the administration’s reported rationale for the paired pardons, not a judicial finding that the convictions were invalid.

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