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Julio M. Herrera Velutini

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  /   2025–Present

Record at a Glance

Clemency type
Pardon
Presidential term
2025–Present
Federal district
Puerto Rico
Offense
Conspiracy (two counts); federal program bribery (two counts); honest services wire fraud (two counts)
Sentence
N/A
Current status
The federal court dismissed the pardoned cases on January 27, 2026 after accepted clemency. Reporting in August 2026 identified Herrera Velutini as the banker associated with Bancrédito while discussing the completed criminal-case sequence; that report is a bounded public-status reference, not a new legal disposition.

Original Case

In August 2025, Herrera Velutini pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor federal campaign-finance offense in a plea resolution of the Puerto Rico prosecution. The earlier 2022 conspiracy, federal-program-bribery, and honest-services allegations were not convictions on those charges. Clemency preceded sentencing; the profile therefore does not describe a sentence that was never imposed.

Clemency

January 15, 2026: full and unconditional pardon of the original specified federal case. The January 20 amended warrant granted a full and unconditional pardon in the separate misdemeanor case. Neither warrant is a judicial acquittal or factual exoneration.

Trump Connection

Herrera Velutini’s daughter contributed to a Trump-aligned super PAC while her father’s criminal case was pending. After the pardon, the Campaign Legal Center alleged that the banker was the true source of money routed through her and asked the Federal Election Commission to investigate. The contribution and complaint make the political-finance link part of the clemency story, but neither the FEC nor a court has made a finding here that the source was unlawful or that clemency was exchanged for the money.

Since Clemency

  • 2026-01-27 · criminal case disposition

    The federal court dismissed the pardoned campaign-finance case after the presidential clemency.

    Legal Status: Judicial dismissal after pardon; the earlier guilty plea and superseded allegations remain distinct historical facts.

  • 2026-02 · campaign-finance complaint

    Campaign Legal Center alleged that a foreign national seeking a pardon had routed money through his daughter to a Trump-aligned super PAC and requested FEC action.

    Legal Status: A complainant's allegations, not an FEC finding, criminal charge or conviction.

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