David Gentile no longer required to pay $15.5M in restitution after Trump’s commutation - POLITICO

Gentile and his business partner, Jeffry Schneider, were convicted in August 2024 of conspiring to defraud thousands of investors in a capital funds scheme totaling $1.6 billion and using funding from investors to "pay distributions and create a false appearance of success." …

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/03/david-gentile-fraud-restitution-trump-00674963 

 

Why fired Justice Dept. pardon attorney says Trump pardons cost $1B - The Washington Post

She arrived at the number by adding up all the money that people who were pardoned allegedly owed in restitution, based on how much they were convicted of stealing. Some pardon recipients had not been sentenced, which means that a judge had not yet ruled on prosecutors' calculations of what they owed back to their victims…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/01/liz-oyer-trump-pardons-restitution-1-billion/

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s campaign manager to pay $25k over Ohio train derailment scam

Isaiah Wartman and two others ordered to pay restitution over role in fraudulent fund claiming to help East Palestine victims…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/12/marjorie-taylor-greene-campaign-manager-ohio-train-derailment-scam

Wrongly Convicted, They Had to Choose: Freedom or Restitution - NYTimes

Prosecutors are adopting strategies to keep from having to pay for mistakes. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/us/wrongful-convictions-civil-lawsuits.html