No. of Recommendations: 3
...pardons?
But it seems that in its rush to appease those calling for widespread clemency of nonviolent offenders to make up for Biden’s sweeping pardon of Hunter, the White House either didn’t do a great vetting job or has stopped caring. Because some truly egregious dirtbags were among the recipients. A Pennsylvania judge who took kickbacks for sending juveniles to for-profit detention centers, in which he had a financial interest, earned clemency. Huh? A lawyer whom prosecutors had described as “the most prolific, pernicious, and utterly unrepentant tax cheat in United States history” earned clemency. Cool. An Illinois comptroller who embezzled $50 million from her city to build a horse breeding and show operation had her sentence commuted. Why? These are not just nonviolent drug offenders from an era of stricter war-on-drugs laws. These are major white-collar criminals who could’ve continued to gut it out in home confinement. What is this?
From Slate's "The Surge"
