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Judith Negron

Commutation

  /   2017–2021

Record at a Glance

Clemency type
Commutation
Presidential term
2017–2021
Federal district
Southern District of Florida
Offense
Conspiracy to commit health care fraud; health care fraud (two counts); conspiracy to defraud the United States and to receive and pay health care kickbacks; conspiracy to commit money laundering; money laundering (16 counts); structuring to avoid reporting requirements (three counts)
Sentence
420 months imprisonment; three years' supervised release; and $87,533,863.46 restitution (December 8, 2011)
Current status
The Mississippi Book Festival lists Negron as a 2026 panelist and describes her justice-reform and higher-education advocacy. This institutional biography is evidence of her public work, not a new legal disposition or independent confirmation of every biographical claim. Her commutations did not pardon the convictions or cancel restitution.

Original Case

After a six-day trial, a Southern District of Florida jury found Negron guilty of 24 felony counts on August 24, 2011, including health-care-fraud, kickback, money-laundering, and structuring offenses. She was sentenced December 8, 2011 to 420 months' imprisonment, three years' supervised release, and $87,533,863.46 restitution. DOJ described the scheme as fraud involving the Miami-area American Therapeutic Corporation; those case facts are not converted into a clemency finding.

Clemency

February 18, 2020: commutation of imprisonment after eight years served. December 22, 2020: a separate commutation of the remaining supervised-release term. Neither action was a pardon; the restitution obligation is not silently erased.

Trump Connection

Negron’s case reached the White House through criminal-justice advocates rather than a documented personal relationship with Trump. The White House named Alice Johnson, the Clemency for All Non-Violent Drug Offenders Foundation, Change.org petitioners, her prison warden, and former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi among her supporters. It cited Negron’s prison programming, tutoring, mentoring, and rehabilitation when first shortening her prison term and later ending supervised release.

Since Clemency

  • 2025-11-19 · advocacy

    JustLeadershipUSA published Negron's support for the SAFER Supervision Act and her account of federal supervision after prison.

    Legal Status: Advocacy; personal experience attributed to her, not independent finding of unlawful government conduct.

  • 2026 · advocacy and publication

    The Mississippi Book Festival listed Negron as an official 2026 panelist and listed her book Breaking Chains, Building Futures: Pathways to Redemption, Education, and Excellence.

    Legal Status: Original festival listing and biography; not independent confirmation of attendance, program outcomes, or a change to her criminal judgment.

Sources

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