US political figures with active indictments

1. Major national cases: Trump and Hunter Biden

Former President Donald Trump faces multiple, well-documented criminal indictments: Ballotpedia lists four separate criminal cases filed between his terms that together account for dozens of counts and describe litigation extending through 2025 ^[1], and reporting notes a 2024 conviction on falsified business records with an appeal filed in October 2025 ^[1]; Hunter Biden has also been federally indicted during the Biden presidency, a prosecution repeatedly cited in national coverage as an example of Democrats being pursued by the Department of Justice ^[4].

2. Other federal and congressional indictments are scattered and tracked, not centralized

Databases such as GovTrack’s legislator misconduct pages and Ballotpedia’s “Noteworthy criminal misconduct” lists capture a rotating set of charges—ranging from federal bribery probes to assault allegations—across members and candidates at the federal, state and local level, and they provide a running log rather than a single canonical list of active indictments ^{[3] [2]}.

3. Examples beyond the big names: Cuellar and 2025–26 local figures

Reporting snippets indicate specific members—such as Representative Henry Cuellar—have faced federal indictment-related developments and ethics investigations in recent years, with the House Committee on Ethics creating investigative subcommittees tied to those allegations ^[3]; Ballotpedia’s 2025–2026 roster also flags numerous state and local officials and candidates with charges or indictments, including a U.S. representative and municipal leaders in 2025 ^[2].

4. Convictions, sentences and the difference from “active indictments”

A number of historically prominent cases have moved past indictment to conviction and sentencing—Robert Menendez, for example, was sentenced in January 2025 following bribery and related convictions, illustrating how the landscape shifts from indictment to conviction and therefore why static lists quickly become outdated ^[5]; public compilations like Wikipedia and specialized pages focus separately on convictions and on indictments, underscoring the legal-status distinctions ^{[6] [7]}.

5. Partisan narratives, prosecution counts, and limits of the sources

Coverage of indictments is politically freighted: critics of some prosecutions call them politically motivated and opponents point to unequal targeting across parties, a debate reflected in commentary noting that the DOJ has pursued members of both parties and that figures like Trump frame prosecutions as a “witch hunt” ^[4]; independent aggregations have also attempted to quantify whether Republican administrations or figures have faced more indictments historically, but those efforts vary in methodology and yield contested conclusions ^{[8] [9]}. Importantly, the sources supplied here—Ballotpedia, GovTrack, Newsweek, Wikipedia and Justice Department press releases—each capture slices of the picture and do not constitute a single up-to-date master list, so any statement about “all” U.S. political figures with active indictments would exceed what these sources directly support ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}.

6. Practical takeaway for readers following indictments

For a reliably current roster, users should consult multiple trackers—Ballotpedia for rolling municipal and state items, GovTrack for congressional misconduct notes, Ballotpedia’s Trump-specific page for his docket, and official DOJ filings or district-court dockets for primary-source confirmation—because the status of investigations, indictments, trials, convictions and appeals changes frequently and the materials here show that updates through 2025 remain common ^{[1] [2] [3]}.