Crazy George's Pardons and Commutations Clearance Sale: All Repug Crooks Must Go!

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Bush Issues 19 Pardons, Commutes One Sentence (Update1)
By Roger Runningen


Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush granted pardons to 19 people and commuted the sentence of one person, the Justice Department said.

The presidential action included no high-profile felons, such as former vice presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, or prominent names in business such as junk-bond baron Michael Milken or former WorldCom Inc. Chairman Bernard Ebbers.

The president, who left the White House today for the Christmas holiday at the presidential retreat at Camp David, pardoned William Thomas Alvis III of Flushing, Ohio, for possession of unregistered firearms and Delano A. Nixon of Neosho Rapids, Kansas, for forging an endorsement on a U.S. Treasury check.

The list also included Charles Winters, who during the 1940s helped ship arms and aircraft to Jews trying to found their own state in the Middle East, the Associated Press reported. Winters died in the 1980s, the news agency said.

In the lone commutation, Bush shortened the life-in-prison sentence of Reed R. Prior of Des Moines, Iowa, who was convicted of possession of methamphetamines with intent to distribute. Prior was sentenced to prison in April 1996 and will leave jail on Feb. 23, followed by 10 years of supervised release, the department said. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=afnmGK6tjYSA&refer=home

[anigbrowl]

1. I'm failing to see the corruption or outrage potential here.

[Wapsie B]

2. He'll do Libby's when he's headed out the door.

It'll be a last-minute thing, like other high-profile felons will most likely be.

[dems_rightnow]

3. I remember Delano Nixon

But didn't know he had a forgery charge.

A guy murdered his girlfriend with a knife, then drove out to Delano Nixon's house. Nixon was married to a woman who had been murderers wife several years back. He was just going to off all his previous women.

He attacked Nixon's wife with a knife, cut her several times, as Nixon tried defending her by hitting the guy with a shotgun. Realizing the shotgun is not operating at top efficiency when used as a hammer, he put it to the guy's ribcage and ended his rampage for all time.

That one was obviously ruled self-defense, and he was never charged.