President Pardons Former Texas Mayor

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Mon, Feb. 16, 2004

President Pardons Former Texas Mayor

Associated Press


WASHINGTON - President Bush pardoned a former mayor of Plano, Texas, who pleaded guilty to bank fraud in 1996, the Justice Department announced Monday.

David B. McCall Jr., who is battling cancer, served six months in prison for his role in fraudulent loans at the Plano Savings and Loan Association, which failed in the mid-1980s.

Officials in Plano, a Dallas suburb, earlier this month renamed a downtown plaza in McCall's honor for his service as mayor from 1956 to 1960.

McCall and four other men, including another former Plano mayor, were indicted in August 1995 on allegations they created a web of transactions designed to transfer troublesome loans from one institution to another.
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http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/politics/7967315.htm

[Skittles]

1. I live in Plano

it sucks.

[theorist]

4. Still have the black tar heroine problem there? n/t

[Skittles]

7. all the teenagers dying from heroin

while their parents are too busy keeping up with the neighbors? Oh yeah.

[Elidor]

12. Do you now

I lived nearby (Upper Greenville in Dallas) for a couple years and spent some time in Plano. Grim, flat, and god-forsaken. A cheap suburb of hell. My father is buried there. I wouldn't wish it on a dawg.

[Beaker]

2. why should the guy be in jail for something like that?

Neil Bush was responsible for looting Billions from the taxpayers via savings-and-loan shenanigans, and he never saw the inside of a prison cell.

[ewagner]

3. Anybody check

the donors list yet?

[bluestateguy]

8. Here

There is another David McCall in NYC, but the one from Plano has given money only to Republicans (Ralph Hall does not count). It shouldn't take much work for some reporter to do this.

2000-04 cycle:

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?NumOfThou=0&txtName=McCall%2C+David+&txtState=%28all+states%29&txtZip=&txtEmploy=&txtCand=&txt2004=Y&txt2002=Y&txt2000=Y&Order=N

1996-98 cycle:

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?NumOfThou=0&txtName=McCall%2C+David+&txtState=%28all+states%29&txtZip=&txtEmploy=&txtCand=&txt1998=Y&txt1996=Y&Order=N

1992-94 cycle:

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?NumOfThou=0&txtName=McCall%2C+David+&txtState=%28all+states%29&txtZip=&txtEmploy=&txtCand=&txt1998=Y&txt1996=Y&Order=N

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Like father, like son. -- pardoning the guilty.

That's how they legitimize all the dirty tricks that Republicans are known for. Unbelievable. Imagine if this story had a black face. White mainstream America would be enraged.

[RoadRunner]

6. Big crook pardons plain-o crook

n/t

[Robb]

9. Sounds like he already served time?

So he got a pardon after the fact? Why would they do that?

(On edit): Some pardons here (Google cache):

In a first for this President, on Friday, December 20th (2002), but not announced until Monday, the 23rd, George W. Bush pardoned seven individuals, all of whom had previously committed relatively minor crimes.ÊIncluded in the list was one Born-Again Christian, Olgen Williams, an individual who was able to shake his former drug habit, turn his life around, and later become the executive director of Christamore House, an Indianapolis, Indiana community center.ÊAlso making the President's list this year was a Tennessee man, Kenneth Copley of Lyles, Tennessee, who had been convicted of making moonshine (selling untaxed whisky).

Harlan Paul Dobas of Portland, Oregon.ÊDobas was sentenced to three months in jail in 1966 for conspiracy involving the sale of grain from his employer; and

Walter F. Schuerer of Amana, Iowa.ÊSchuerer was convicted in 1989 of making a false statement to the Social Security Administration regarding his employment and fined $15,000; and

Paul Herman Wieser of Tacoma, Washington.ÊWieser was convicted in 1972 of stealing $38,000 worth of copper wire and sentenced to 18 months probation; and

Stephen James Jackson of Picayune, Mississippi.ÊJackson was convicted of altering a car odometer in 1993 and sentenced to three years probation and fined $500.00; and

Douglas Harley Rogers of Brookfield, Wisconsin.ÊRogers, a Jehovah's Witness, was convicted in 1957 for failing to report for military induction and sentenced to two years in jail.

[54anickel]

10. Could be they didn't want the Plaza named after a convicted felon...

Of course, I don't know - maybe in parts of TX that would be considered a badge of honor. :eyes:

(No offense to Texans)

[dArKeR]

11. Clinton pardons someone who allegedly did something and AWOL pardons

someone who plead guilty. Let's see what Whore Fineman has to say about this!

[KDLarsen]

13. Why do I have the feeling..

.. that come December/January, at least a couple of Enron execs will have recieved a presidential pardon. Are there any limits as to whom * can give a pardon, or the number of pardons?