Mr. Clemency

[Horace]

@George-K said in Mr. Clemency:

The child porn guy - it was part of a prisoner swap.

Which, of course, makes it OK. Sorry about my outrage.

That's fine. Not on the taxpayer's dime anymore at least.

[George K]

@Horace said in Mr. Clemency:

Not on the taxpayer's dime anymore at least.

Half full tonight....

[LuFins Dad]

Man, Hunter is raking it in today…

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Mr. Clemency:

@George-K

Hey senile old man, did you miss the Community Note?

Hey, did you see my post #20? If not, take a look where I commented on that.

If you did, I have two words, and they're not "Good Morning."

[jon-nyc]

I didn’t see it until after. But I kept my post anyway because you didn’t mention the other two guys and also, and more importantly, I thought it was funny.

[George K]

Speaking of child endangerment:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/a-former-pa-judge-involved-in-the-kids-for-cash-scandal-is-granted-clemency-by-president-joe-biden/ar-AA1vLEeI

A former Pennsylvania judge who was convicted of sending children to jail while receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks from the facility’s operator in the early 2000s was one of the nearly 1,500 people whose sentences were commuted Thursday by President Joe Biden.

Michael Conahan had been sentenced to 171/2 years in federal prison after being convicted of racketeering conspiracy for his role in the so-called Kids for Cash scandal in Luzerne County. Conahan pulled funding from a county-owned juvenile detention center there and agreed to send juveniles to a for-profit facility in exchange for payments, a scheme that netted him and fellow jurist Mark Ciavarella nearly $3 million.

Conahan, who was convicted in 2011, had been serving his sentence in a Florida facility and was set to be released in 2026. But he was placed in home confinement in 2020 because of the pandemic.

[George K]

So, thus far we have some Chinese child porn watchers exchanged for US spies, the half-brother of a Hamas biggie, a crooked judge who make millions exploiting children, and a banker from Dixon (Reagan's home town, btw) who bilked her town of millions.

Now we have the doctor who diluted chemotherapy meds and billed full rate.

https://themississippilink.com/news/cancer-center-fraud-doctor-sentenced-to-20-years-repay-8-2m/

A federal judge on Friday sentenced a doctor to 20 years in prison and ordered her to repay nearly $8.2 million for fraud at a former Mississippi cancer center she ran. U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III said he was “appalled” at how Dr. Meera Sachdeva treated patients at a vulnerable time of their lives.

Syringes were re-used and different patients' chemotherapy drugs were drawn from the same bag at Rose Cancer Center in the small town of Summit, Jordan said. He said prosecutors were unable to prove drugs were watered down, as they originally believed.

“It's a very small thing to send this woman to jail for the next 20 years when you compare it to the damage she has done,” Jordan said from the bench.

And a fentanyl dealer.

Daniel J. Fillerup, age 33, of Albany, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for selling fentanyl that caused a woman’s death.

The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and James N. Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Fentanyl...pfft. Gimme carfentanil.

Investigators said Ken Hechtman and his wife Wendy invented and cooked the drug. They also developed a sophisticated marketing system with a sales team of about 40 people.

"It just popped up here like a light switch. Overnight, all of a sudden it was here," said an Omaha police detective.

There are many more of like stories.

[Doctor Phibes]

They should do away with Presidential pardons. They're ridiculous, in the same way that the British honours system is ridiculous, except with the Brits they don't let a bunch of criminals out of gaol, they just give them medals.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Mr. Clemency:

They should do away with Presidential pardons.

It's as hard-baked into the Constitution as birth-right citizenship - probably even more so. It'll never go away.

[George K]

[Axtremus]

[George K]

@Axtremus said in Mr. Clemency:

Is that guy a Hamas dude himself or does he just have a brother who is a Hamas dude?

It's his half-brother, iirc. I'm sure that he had no association with the organization, right? RIGHT????

[George K]

@George-K said in Mr. Clemency:

It's his half-brother, iirc. I'm sure that he had no association with the organization, right? RIGHT????

Wrong:

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-833310

Mashaal was sentenced for 20 years on charges of financing Hamas through the Holy Land Foundation. According to Israeli media, he has been released after serving 16 years, and will spend one year in a rehabilitation facility.

Allegedly, the shortening of Mashaal's term comes alongside the shortening of four other American-Palestinians, including Muhammad al-Zain, a relative of Hamas Deputy Chairman Musa Abu Marzouk. The US court ruling, Arab media stated, means that the sentences will be shorter by "dozens of years."

[Mik]

Klobuchar is throwing Joe under the bus on this - Face The Nation.

[Horace]

The pardon of Hunter is polling very badly, last I heard.

[Mik]

All of it is. She dumped on the Hunter pardon too.

[Horace]

I wonder why prisoner swaps advantageous to the US, as per the pardon documents, are left to the last days of a last presidential term.

[jon-nyc]

He’s got over a month left. He could get a few thousand more pardons in easily.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Mr. Clemency:

He’s got over a month left. He could get a few thousand more pardons in easily.

In theory, he could pardon everybody on the planet in perpetuity.