Word: pardons
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...sentenced to three years' probation, and paid $11 million in fines. Downe has contributed $21,500 to Democrats since 1991, including $1,000 to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign. His application went straight to Clinton, and White's office learned about it only the night before his pardon...
...Louis University, Howard Mechanic lobbed a cherry bomb at police and firefighters. He fled to Arizona and began a new life as a businessman. But his secret came out when he ran for the Scottsdale city council last year, and he went to federal prison. His successful pardon application drew support from several Senators. But in Clinton's haste to process so many pleas, he signed a pardon letter that contained a typo and ended up clearing Mechanic of the wrong charge...
...Governor John Fife Symington sent his application directly to the White House three weeks before Clinton left office. In 1997 the Republican was convicted of fraud and forced out of office. The verdict was overturned, but prosecutors have been weighing whether to retry the case. Some Arizonans think the pardon was payback: Symington saved Clinton from drowning at a '60s beach party...
Former CIA Director John Deutch just a day before the pardon agreed to plead guilty to improperly storing classified materials on his home computer...
...Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich stinks, then how much greater is the stench of President Bush's proposed tax giveaway of $1.6 trillion, most of which will go to the wealthiest Americans? Bush's proposed tax cut is 32,000 times as great as Rich's $50 million tax swindle. In essence, Bush wants to save thousands of Marc Riches from the tiresome chore of having to cheat on their taxes. JOE HEAPHEY Greencastle...