#43Americans

We are injustice impacted Americans.

Nurses, doctors, veterans, engineers, software developers, small business owners, public servants, parents. We did not know each other. We found each other on X, one at a time, each carrying the same discovery: that the federal justice system had been turned on us, and that there was no one to tell.

This site was built and paid for by the people asking, one of whom is me.

Some of us you will have heard of, and some of those stories you will not like. That is the point. The machinery that did this does not check whether you are sympathetic before it starts.

What weaponized justice looks like

It is not a slogan. In these files it is a specific thing that happened to a specific person:

• Charges brought in a district with no connection to the defendant.
• Exculpatory evidence withheld, because a conviction mattered more than the truth.
• A civil business dispute converted into a federal criminal case.
• A prosecution announced with a press release noting the defendant's elected office — brought for conduct the indictment alleged had ended more than three years before that election, and five months after she opened an office to campaign for President Trump.
• A sentence imposed for deterrence — to send a message to strangers — rather than for anything about the person sentenced.
• A guilty plea taken not because someone was guilty, but because the alternative was decades.

And when the rules are broken, nothing happens. A defendant who misleads a court receives additional years. A government error is called harmless. That asymmetry is the whole of it.

Some examples

Injustice to one person is not somebody else’s problem to ignore. A system that can do this to any one of us can do it to anyone, and a right that goes unenforced for a stranger is not a right you still hold.

• Elizabeth Hernandez A nurse practitioner with five children. The judge told her jury a defendant must prove good faith — the opposite of the law. A federal appeals court called that error harmless. Her own state Board of Nursing reviewed the complaint against her and found no probable cause. She is serving twenty years.
• Dr. Sanjeev Kumar A Mayo Clinic-trained cancer surgeon. His own state medical board reviewed every allegation against him and dismissed all of them. The Justice Department prosecuted anyway.
• Angelica Pacheco Eight federal counts, $19.1 million alleged. Not one produced a conviction. She pleaded to a single false statement on a loan forgiveness form — $54,946 — and lost her council seat, her family’s business, and her nursing career. The Justice Department’s case page still lists the dismissed charges.

Real people. Real photographs. Every case documented and linked.

How this started

My name is Angelica Pacheco. I am a registered nurse, a mother of five, and a former elected official.

I was indicted on eight federal counts. Every one of them was dismissed. None produced a conviction.

The charge I pleaded to was not among them. Two weeks before trial, the government looked at bank records it had held for years and found a second loan it had never noticed. Three weeks after I moved to dismiss the indictment over what the grand jury had been told, it charged me by information — one false statement, on that second loan’s forgiveness form. Filing it dropped the entire indictment at once. The full account, with every document, is on my case page.

One thing from it belongs here. We had moved to dismiss for selective prosecution — the argument that I was singled out because I held elected office. In its official response, the government wrote that it may select a defendant for prosecution based in part on the deterrent effect on others. I want that sentence read twice. Not because of what I had done — because of the message my prosecution would send to other people.

Faced with the choice between a plea to probation or gambling my young son’s future against the word of the federal government at trial, I made the only decision a mother could make.

That choice is not unusual. It is how most federal cases end. And it is why “they pleaded guilty” tells you far less than it sounds like it does.

I found Ed Rosenberg. He had compiled forty-two cases and put his own on the record first, publicly, under his own name. He wrote it up on X, read by more than 240,000 people as of August 2026, and that is where the rest of us came from — one at a time, each of us reading it and recognizing our own case in someone else’s. They had already started fighting. I gave us a name and a voice. We are #43Americans.

What we are asking

Not mercy. Mercy assumes the process was right.

We are asking for review — that someone outside this system look at what was done to us, and grant whatever relief the record warrants. A pardon, a commutation, or whatever the White House deems appropriate. When the courts are themselves part of what went wrong, there is one office left that can look at the whole picture rather than one narrow legal question at a time.

We are patriots. We support the President’s use of the constitutional pardon power to correct injustice and restore trust in the legal system. Every one of us filed through the channels available to any citizen. No lobbyists. No connections. No one paid anybody anything.

This site was built and is paid for by the people asking. There is no outside funding, no consultants, and no one has been retained to advocate for us. Each of us has our own attorney for our own case. None of us has hired anyone to get access.

Every case here is documented, sourced, and open for anyone to check — including the parts that are unfavorable to us.

We are not asking you to take our word for it. Read one case. Follow the links. Then look at what the co-defendants received.

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