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Trump to Pardon Former Puerto Rico Governor Vazquez, CBS News Reports
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January 16, 2026

People watch television at a bar as Puerto Rico's Governor Wanda Vazquez Garced makes an address regarding the debt restructuring proposal filed in court by an oversight board, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 27, 2019. (Reuters/Ricardo Arduengo)

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President Donald Trump is issuing a pardon to Puerto Rico’s former Governor Wanda Vazquez Garced, who was previously indicted in a federal corruption case, CBS News reported on Friday, citing multiple sources.

(Reporting by Ryan Patrick Jones and Bhargav Acharya in Toronto; Editing by Caitlin Webber)

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