Pardons! Get Yer Pardons HERE! Bush grants 15 new pardons

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berni_mccoy  (1000+ posts)       Tue Mar-25-08 11:52 PM
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Pardons! Get Yer Pardons HERE! Bush grants 15 new pardons 
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— William L. Baker of Spokane, Wash. Offense: Distribution of a controlled substance; falsifying records. Sentenced July 15, 1980, in Wyoming to 24 months imprisonment, one year special parole.

— George Francis Bauckham of Oak Ridge, N.J. Offense:Unlawful detention, delay and secretion of mail by a postal employee. Sentenced May 16, 1958, in New Jersey to five years probation and $100 fine.

— Kenneth Charles Britt of White City, Kansas. Offense: Conspiracy to violate federal and state fish and wildlife laws. Sentenced Nov. 12, 1998, in Kansas to three years probation and restitution of $8,250.

— William Bruce Butt of London, Ky. Offense: Bank embezzlement. Sentenced June 20, 1990, in Kentucky to three years probation.

— Mariano Garza Caballero of Brownsville, Texas. Offense: Dealing in firearms without a federal firearms license. Sentenced Nov. 1, 1984, in Texas to 34 days imprisonment, four years probation, and a $1,000 fine.

— Anthony C. Foglio (aka Tony Foley) of Santee, Calif. Offense: Distribution of marijuana. Sentenced Oct. 15, 1996, in West Virginia to three years probation.

— Marvin Robert Foster of Boca Raton, Fla. Offense: False statement in connection with a Federal Housing Administration loan. Sentenced Jan. 19, 1968, in Rhode Island to one year probation and a $3,500 fine.

— Carl Harry Hachmeister of Denton, Texas. Offense: Conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud. Sentenced Jan. 22, 1985, in Utah to three years probation and $39,330 restitution.

— William Marcus McDonald of Wetumpka, Alabama. Offense: Distribution of cocaine, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, use of cocaine, possession of cocaine, use of marijuana. Sentenced May 2, 1984, by U.S. Air Force general court-martial convened at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., to four years confinement at hard labor, forfeiture of $300 pay per month for four years, reduction in rank to basic airman, and a bad conduct discharge.

— Robert Michael Milroy of Cinnaminson, N.J. Offense: Importation of heroin. Sentenced April 2, 1975, in seven and a half years imprisonment, six years special parole, and three years probation.

— Jerry Lynn Moldenhauer of Colorado Springs, Colo. Offense: Knowingly selling migratory bird parts in violation of Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Sentenced Sept. 19, 1994, in Colorado to three years probation and $1,000 fine.

— Thomas Donald Moldenhauer of Colorado Springs, Colo. Offense: Knowingly selling migratory bird parts in violation of Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Sentenced Sept. 19, 1994, in Colorado to three years probation and $1,000 fine.

— Richard James Putney (aka Richard James Putney Jr.) of Woodbridge, Va. Offense: Aiding and abetting the escape of a prisoner. Sentenced Sept. 16, 1996, in West Virginia to one year of probation and a $100 fine.

— Timothy Alfred Thone of Woodbury, Minn. Offense: Making a false statement to the Department of Housing and Urban Development to obtain a mortgage loan. Sentenced Sept. 18, 1987, in Minnesota to two years probation, $1,500 fine.

— Lonnie Edward Two Eagle Sr. of Parmelee, S.D. Offense: Simple assault committed on an Indian reservation (misdemeanor). Sentenced Oct. 6, 1976, in South Dakota to two years probation.
 

Now let's look at who Bill pardoned...

Peter MacDonald - The day before President Clinton left office,U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy lobbied the White House to commute the sentence of the former leader of the Navajo Nation. MacDonald was sentence for 14 years in at a Federal Prison in Texas for fraud, extortion, inciting riots, bribery, and corruption stemming from the Navajo purchase of the Big Boquillas Ranch in Northwestern Arizona. He was commuted after serving 10 years.[1]

Carlos A. Vignali had his sentence for cocaine trafficking commuted, after serving 6 of 15 years in federal prison.

Almon Glenn Braswell was pardoned of his mail fraud and perjury convictions, even while a federal investigation was underway regarding additional money laundering and tax evasion charges.[14] Braswell and Carlos Vignali each paid approximately $200,000 to Hillary Clinton's brother, Hugh Rodham, to represent their respective cases for clemency. Hugh Rodham returned the payments after they were disclosed to the public.[15] Braswell would later invoke the Fifth Amendment at a Senate Committee hearing in 2001, when questioned about allegations of his having systematically defrauded senior citizens of millions of dollars.[16]

Marc Rich, a fugitive, was pardoned of tax evasion, after clemency pleas from Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, among many other international luminaries. He was required to pay a $100 million dollar fine and waive any use of the pardon as a defense against any future civil charges that were filed against him in the same case. Critics complained that Denise Rich, his former wife, had made substantial donations to the Clinton library and to Mrs. Clinton's senate campaign. Emails uncovered during the course of the investigation revealed that her final donation was provided a year before Scooter Libby requested that she approach Clinton for a pardon. According to Paul Volcker's independent investigation of Iraqi Oil-for-Food kickback schemes, Marc Rich was a middleman for several suspect Iraqi oil deals involving over 4 million barrels of oil.[17]

Susan McDougal, who had already completed her sentence, was pardoned for her role in the Whitewater scandal; McDougal had served 18 months on contempt charges for refusing to testify about Clinton's role.

Dan Rostenkowski, a former Democratic Congressman convicted in the Congressional Post Office Scandal. Rostenkowski had served his entire sentence.

Melvin J. Reynolds, a Democratic Congressman from Illinois, who was convicted of bank fraud, 12 counts of sexual assault, obstruction of justice, and solicitation of child pornography had his sentence commuted on the bank fraud charged and was allowed to serve the final months under the auspices of a half way house. He had served his entire sentence on child sex abuse charges before the commutation of the later convictions.

Roger Clinton, the president's half-brother, on drug charges after having served the entire sentence more than a decade before. Roger Clinton would be charged with drunk driving and disorderly conduct in an unrelated incident within a year of the pardon.[18] He was also briefly alleged to have been utilized in lobbying for the Braswell pardon, among others. However, no wrongdoing was uncovered.

Hypocritical much, Dems?

[franksolich]

I'm struck by how old those cases are, that Bush pardoned.

They probably got pardoned because now the perpetrators are old, incapable of doing any harm.

Compare that, please, with those relatively youthful perpetrators pardoned by the Impeached One.

[Randy]

Every single one Bush pardoned had served their sentence, most decades ago. I'll bet this was more about restoring rights to those proven to be truly rehabilitated than anything else.

[jukin]

My goodness DUmmys are ....welll......really f*cking DUMB.

[Lord Undies]

These pardons are about restoring honor to people who have proved they are worthy.  The DUmmies should be celebrating!  This is right up their alley.  They should be praising the President for showing such compassion.

Really, considering how the last democrat president sold pardons and pretty much made a mockery of the entire system, I'm surprised the DUmmies have the nerve to comment at all.

[dandi]

melm00se (516 posts)      Wed Mar-26-08 03:26 PM
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15. Presidential pardons
 barring some sort of pardoning frenzy at the 11th hour, it looks like Bush will go down as having the fewest number of pardons (157 to date)since the end of WWII:

1. Truman: 5,030 petitions, 93 months in office, pardons granted 1,913 (38%).

2. Eisenhower: 4,100 petitions, 96 months in office, pardons granted 1,110 (27%)

3. Kennedy: 1,749 petitions, 34 months in office, pardons granted 472 (27%)

4. Johnson: 4,537 petitions, 62 months in office, pardons granted 960 (21%)

5. Nixon: 1,699 petitions, 67 moths in office, pardons granted 892 (53%)

6. Ford: 978 petitions, 29 months in office, pardons granted 382 (39%)

7. Carter: 1,581 petitions, 48 months in office, pardons granted 534 (34%)

8. Reagan: 2,099 petitions, 96 months in office, pardons granted 393 (~19%)

9. Bush Sr.: 731 petitions, 48 months in office, pardons granted 74 (10%)

10. Clinton: 2,001 petitions, 96 months in office, pardons granted 396 (~20%)

Careful there, I hear the tink-tink-tink of chipping granite.  

[franksolich]

Every single one Bush pardoned had served their sentence, most decades ago. I'll bet this was more about restoring rights to those proven to be truly rehabilitated than anything else.

That's exactly what I was thinking, myself.

[djones520]

Melmoose's comment shut that discussion down real quick.   Though he was wrong.  Bush 41 made fewer pardons then his son, even when compairing the amount of time in office.