Bush pardons 15 convicts

Hackfest · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 413

Granted he has pardoned less than half the people Clinton pardoned, I don't see how this kind of thing is okay. It makes me sick.

On the pardon list were:

_ William L. Baker of Spokane, Wash., who was sentenced in 1980 to two years prison for falsifying records.
_ George Francis Bauckham of Oak Ridge, N.J., who received five years probation in 1958 for the unlawfully detention or delay of the mail by a postal employee.
_ Kenneth Charles Britt of White City, Kan., who was sentenced to three years probation in 1998 for conspiracy to violate fish and wildlife laws.
_ William Bruce Butt of London, Ky., who received three years probation in 1990 for bank embezzlement.
_ Mariano Garza Caballero of Brownsville, Texas, who was sentenced in 1984 to 34 days in prison and four years probation for dealing in firearms without a license.
_ Anthony C. Foglio of Santee, Calif., who was sentenced to three years probation in 1996 for distributing marijuana. He is also known as Tony Foley.
_ Marvin Robert Foster of Boca Raton, Fla., who was sentenced to a year of probation in 1968 for making a false statement in connection with a Federal Housing Administration loan.
_ Carl Harry Hachmeister of Denton, Texas, who was sentenced to three years probation in 1985 for conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud.
_ William Marcus McDonald of Wetumpka, Ala., who was sentenced two four years confinement with hard labor by an Air Force court-martial in 1984 for cocaine and marijuana charges. His pay was docked, his rank was reduced and he was given a discharge for bad conduct.
_ Robert Michael Milroy of Cinnaminson, N.J., who was sentenced to 7 1/2 years prison in 1975 for heroin importation.
_ Jerry Lynn Moldenhauer and Thomas Donald Moldenhauer of Colorado Springs, Colo., who each received three years probation in 1994 for selling migratory bird parts in violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
_ Richard James Putney of Woodbridge, Va., who received one year of probation in 1996 for aiding and abetting the escape of a prisoner.
_ Timothy Alfred Thone of Woodbury, Minn., who was sentenced in 1987 to two years probation for making a false statement to the Department of Housing and Urban Development to obtain a mortgage.
_ Lonnie Edward Two Eagle Sr. of Parmelee, S.D., who was sentenced to two years probation in 1976 for misdemeanor simple assault on an Indian reservation.

Bush also commuted the sentence of Patricia Beckford of Portsmouth, Va., who since 1992 has been serving a 23-year prison sentence for conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of crack cocaine. Bush left intact a five-year term of probation.

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

I always wonder-- how does a president find these guys? I mean, are they people he somehow knows and is friends with? Because I don't know anyone who is in prison. Or is i more about politics?

Or does he read the paper and occasionally say to himself "that guy didn't deserve such a harsh sentence"?

Kizzume · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:06 am Post subject:

Favors favors....

redstaterebel · Joined: 05 Dec 2007 Posts: 128

The long list of pardons usually comes on the last day of office.

usually a few hundred or so.

Stay tuned for that.

Remember the Marc Rich pardon from Clinton? That was a whopper!

Kizzume · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:33 pm Post subject:

I wonder how long this kind of thing has been standard practice...