hmmm.... Bush grants pardons to:

[Ten*K]

a bunch of people who either did a bunch of drugs, or falsified documents.

WASHINGTON - President Bush pardoned 15 people Tuesday and commuted the prison sentence of another. Bush has been stingy about handing out such reprieves. With about nine months left in his administration, he has granted 157 pardons. That's less than half as many as Presidents Clinton or Reagan issued during their time in office. Both were two-term presidents.

Most of those on Bush's most recent pardon list were convicted of white-collar or drug offenses.

One name notably absent from the list was star pitcher Roger Clemens. The FBI is investigating whether Clemens lied to Congress about steroid use. An attorney for his trainer has predicted Clemens will be pardoned because of his friendship with the Bush family.

Clemens has not been charged with a crime.

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.
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well, he is turning a blind eye to all the drugs coming across the southern boarder and all of his white collar criminal buddies.

[Karl/PA]

Sadly missing are the two BP agents that really deserve pardons.

[Agent Smith]

Sadly missing are the two BP agents that really deserve pardons.

+6 to that.

[billamj]

I would also note that all of those listed have already served their sentences and this just basically clears their records. They did the crime(s) and the time and now they are truly free again.

[Johannes_Paulsen]

a bunch of people who either did a bunch of drugs, or falsified documents.

I saw only four people convicted of drug-related crimes, one of whom (the fellow from the Air Force,) might have been little more than possession. And that last one -- 50 grams sounds pretty low to me. Not exactly a major distributor.

In any event, most of these people were convicted of relatively minor crimes, and we don't know what circumstances prompted the decision to issue the pardons in the first place. Perhaps they've turned a new leaf? And like billamj said, they've already served the time anyway....

[mikepro8]

Uhm... did everyone miss they guy that was convicted for dealing firearms without a license?

Yikes. great pardon there... The non-enforcement of our laws goes right to the top. Therefore, we need more laws regarding firearms!

[billamj]

Uhm... did everyone miss they guy that was convicted for dealing firearms without a license?

Yikes. great pardon there... The non-enforcement of our laws goes right to the top. Therefore, we need more laws regarding firearms!

Do you mean

• 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.

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If so, it couldn't have been much of a charge. 34 days in prison and 4 yrs probation back in 1984. I think that there are people that we should be more concerned about as far as pardons go, like maybe about half of Clinton's friends that got pardons.

[Ten*K]

Sadly missing are the two BP agents that really deserve pardons.

holy ass crackers... you are right. but then, considering the decision to hang those poor men out to dry came from the Executive Office in the first place...

I hate that chump.