特朗普赦免德州民主党众议员奎利亚尔夫妇，终结其涉贿赂联邦案件
2025年12月3日，美国总统特朗普宣布给予德克萨斯州民主党籍联邦众议员 Henry Cuellar 及其妻子 Imelda Cuellar 全面且无条件的赦免，终结这桩涉约60万美元贿赂指控的联邦案件。Cuellar 来自德克萨斯州韦布县拉雷多市，是众议院资深民主党人；赦免令由特朗普于12月2日签署，12月3日经其社交平台 Truth Social 公开宣布。
特朗普在帖文中称，Cuellar 勇敢地公开反对开放边境，因而遭到拜登政府动用司法手段针对，并写道，Henry，我不认识你，但你今晚可以睡个好觉了。帖文同时附上了 Cuellar 两个女儿请求赦免的信件截图。特朗普当天在白宫对记者表示，Cuellar 因为说人们不应该被允许涌入这个国家而受到很糟糕的对待，在他看来 Cuellar 是对的。
案件背景方面，司法部2024年5月3日宣布，起诉书在德克萨斯州南区联邦法院解封，指控 Cuellar 夫妇在2014年12月至2021年11月间收受两家外国实体约60万美元贿赂，一家是阿塞拜疆政府全资控股的石油天然气公司，另一家是总部位于墨西哥城的银行，贿款据指经虚假咨询合同与空壳公司层层转手洗白。作为交换，Cuellar 据指同意利用其职务影响美国外交政策以利于阿塞拜疆，并为墨西哥的银行利益行事。夫妇二人共面临14项控罪，包括共谋、贿赂、诚信服务电汇诈骗与洗钱等；两人坚称无罪。2025年8月，联邦法官撤销了其中两项涉及外国代理人登记的控罪，其余控罪原定2026年4月在 Houston 开庭审理。
Cuellar 在赦免宣布后公开感谢特朗普，并于同日登记以民主党人身份竞选连任。赦免终结的是这桩联邦刑事案件；众议院道德委员会自2024年5月起对 Cuellar 展开的调查不在赦免范围之内，仍在继续。
关联：特朗普宣布将赦免洪都拉斯前总统埃尔南德斯，其因贩毒罪名在美国被判45年
Trump Pardons Texas Democratic Rep. Cuellar and His Wife, Ending Their Federal Bribery Case
On December 3, 2025, President Donald Trump announced a full and unconditional pardon for U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, ending the federal case built on allegations of some $600,000 in bribes. Cuellar, from Laredo in Webb County, Texas, is a senior House Democrat; the pardon warrant was signed by Trump on December 2 and publicly announced on December 3 on his Truth Social platform.
In the post, Trump said Cuellar had bravely spoken out against open borders and had been targeted by the Biden administration's weaponized justice system, writing, "Henry, I don't know you, but you can sleep well tonight." The post also included screenshots of a letter from Cuellar's two daughters asking for the pardon. Speaking to reporters at the White House the same day, Trump said Cuellar "was treated very badly because he said that people should not be allowed to pour into our country, and he was right."
The case began on May 3, 2024, when the Justice Department announced an indictment unsealed in the Southern District of Texas charging the Cuellars with accepting approximately $600,000 in bribes between December 2014 and November 2021 from two foreign entities: an oil and gas company wholly owned and controlled by the government of Azerbaijan, and a bank headquartered in Mexico City. The payments were allegedly laundered through sham consulting contracts and shell companies. In exchange, Cuellar allegedly agreed to use his office to influence U.S. foreign policy in favor of Azerbaijan and to act on behalf of the Mexican bank's interests. The couple faced 14 counts, including conspiracy, bribery, honest services wire fraud and money laundering, and maintained their innocence. In August 2025 a federal judge dismissed two of the counts tied to foreign-agent registration, and the remaining counts had been set for trial in Houston in April 2026.
Cuellar publicly thanked Trump after the announcement and filed the same day to run for reelection as a Democrat. The pardon ends the federal criminal case; the House Ethics Committee investigation into Cuellar, opened in May 2024, is outside the pardon's scope and continues.
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