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Post by Sunidaze2u on Jul 5, 2007 16:14:35 GMT -5
In total, President Clinton issued 456 executive clemency orders - 395 pardons and 61 commutations - between 1993 and January 20, 2001. The vast majority were issued in the last three years of his presidency - 176 (140 pardons, 36 commutations) were issued on his last day in office. jurist.law.pitt.edu/pardons6a.htmjurist.law.pitt.edu/pardons6b.htm jurist.law.pitt.edu/pardons0a.htm In total, President Clinton issued 456 executive clemency orders - 395 pardons and 61 commutations - between 1993 and January 20, 2001. The vast majority were issued in the last three years of his presidency - 176 (140 pardons, 36 commutations) were issued on his last day in office. jurist.law.pitt.edu/pardons6a.htmjurist.law.pitt.edu/pardons6b.htmjurist.law.pitt.edu/pardons0a.htmHe pardoned the former head of the CIA for improper storage and leak — and very likely leaking of national security information. He pardoned a drug kingpin, who has been convicted of murder. He pardoned a group of Hasidic Jews in New York that have bilked the government of over $40 million. Four of them had been “convicted of robbing the government of $11,000,000, by setting up a fictitious yeshiva to receive federal student aid money.” The school did not even exist. The convicts and their attorneys justified their actions “on the grounds that . . . the funds were channeled back into the community. Hilary shut the f up.
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