Saturday, December 21, 2024

Think Hunter’s pardon is bad? President Biden’s ‘merit’ mercies are even worse

 NY Post 

 "If Democrats had a lick of self-respect — or any real instinct for political self-preservation — they would censure, if not impeach, Biden while they still have the time." 


Joe Biden’s last-minute pardons have been positively scandalous — and the one for his son Hunter hasn’t even been the worst of them.

"Biden’s pardons are terrible in and of themselves, but taken together they illustrate a more important point. Pardons are for resolving individual cases one at a time; pardons aren’t for policymaking. 

"First: Holy smokes, some of these pardons are bonkers, including Biden’s grant of clemency for the corrupt judge at the center of the “Kids for Cash” case, in which former Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan took bribes in exchange for wrongly sentencing children to time in for-profit youth prisons, padding his own bank account while helping the prisons to pad theirs.

"Some 4,000 juvenile convictions had to be thrown out after the kickbacks were discovered.

"And Biden gave clemency to Rita Crundwell, a corrupt local official in Illinois who carried out the largest municipal fraud scheme in US history.

"Also on the list: Meera Sachdeva, a Mississippi doctor who committed large-scale Medicare fraud, in part by shortchanging cancer patients by giving them diluted drugs.

"She also reused needles, which seems to have led to an HIV infection in at least one patient."

...More... 

 ‘Black Widow,’ Who Murdered 3 Ex-Lovers, Freed in Biden’s Historic  Clemency Spree   . . ."A Maryland woman dubbed the "Black Widow" for murdering two husbands and a boyfriend for insurance money is now free after President Joe Biden commuted her 40-year prison sentence, undercutting the White House's claim that Biden released only "non-violent" offenders in a clemency bonanza last week." 

 Gray, who collected $165,000 from the three insurance settlements, was charged with murder by Maryland state authorities but ultimately convicted in federal court in 2002 for insurance fraud for violating what’s known as the "slayers rule," which prohibits killers from receiving inheritance and insurance proceeds from their victims' death. 

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