Michael Conahan: A former Pennsylvania judge involved in the "kids for cash" scandal, where he took bribes in exchange for wrongly sentencing children to time in for-profit youth prisons. His commutation was criticized even by some Democrats.
Meera Sachdeva: A Mississippi doctor convicted of large-scale Medicare fraud, partly by giving diluted drugs to cancer patients.
Rita Crundwell: A former local official in Illinois who committed the largest municipal fraud scheme in U.S. history by embezzling over $50 million of public funds to finance a personal luxury lifestyle and a horse breeding operation.
Leonard Peltier: A Native American activist convicted of murdering two FBI agents in 1975. Critics called his clemency a "horrible abuse of power".
Waverly Two: Ferrone Claiborne and Terence Richardson, who were convicted in the killing of a police officer in Virginia. The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia reportedly advised the White House against commuting their sentences, causing outrage from the officer's family and Virginia's governor.