CLINTON PARDON CONTROVERSY
The President Clinton Pardon controversy was an important part of our American History and still remains somewhat alive today with resurgence of the Clintons and the Hillary Clinton Presidential Candidacy. So along with the offering of my Replica President Clinton Pardon, I thought it would be fitting to include on this page the full story on the Clinton Pardons.
The Clinton Pardons
Bill Clinton granted 395 pardons during his presidency, comparable in number to other recent presidents. However, of that total 140 were issued on his final day in office. His final day pardon of financier Marc Rich, who had fled the country on tax evasion charges, immediately erupted in controversy. There were charges that emissaries of Rich had used personal influence and campaign contributions to win the pardon. Similar charges soon arose regarding other final day pardons, prompting calls for congressional hearings and action by federal prosecutors.
The Office of Pardon Attorney, established in the Justice Department in 1981, assists the president in the exercise of the pardon power. The office's role in the Clinton pardons is discussed in the February 14, 2001 testimony of Pardon Attorney Roger Adams before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Adams notes that the Clinton White House did not consult his office in Marc Rich's pardon or in other controversial final day pardons.
The following is a partial list of people pardoned by Bill Clinton. As President Bill Clinton used his power under the U.S. Constitution to grant pardons and clemency to 456 people, thus commuting the sentences of those already convicted of a crime, and obviating a trial for those not yet convicted. On January 20, 2001, he pardoned 140 people in the final hours of his presidency.
COMMUTATIONS
1. Benjamin Berger
2. Ronald Henderson Blackley
3. Bert Wayne Bolan
4. Gloria Libia Camargo
5. Charles F. Campbell
6. David Ronald Chandler - federal death row inmate.
7. Lau Ching Chin
8. Donald R. Clark
9. Loreta De-Ann Coffman
10. Derrick Curry
11. Velinda Desalus
12. Jacob Elbaum
13. Linda Sue Evans
14. Loretta Sharon Fish
15. Antoinette M. Frink
16. David Goldstein
17. Gerard A. Greenfield
18. Jodie E. Israel
19. Kimberly Johnson
20. Billy Thornton Langston Jr.
21. Belinda Lynn Lumpkin
22. Peter MacDonald - President of the Navajo Nation
23. Kellie Ann Mann
24. Peter Ninemire
25. Hugh Ricardo Padmore
26. Arnold Paul Prosperi Florida attorney, tax fraud. managed Clinton's 1967 campaign for student-council president.
27. Melvin J. Reynolds - Democratic Congressman from Illinois - bank fraud and obstruction of justice
28. Pedro Miguel Riveiro
29. Dorothy Rivers - lead official in Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, plead guilty to theft of 1.2 million dollars in federal grant money
30. Susan Rosenberg
31. Kalmen Stern
32. Cory Stringfellow
33. Carlos Anibal Vignali - convicted of cocaine trafficking
34. Thomas Wilson Waddell III
35. Harvey Weinig
36. Kim Allen Willis
37. Kimba Smith
38. Antonio Camacho Negron - FALN militant
PARDONS
1. Verla Jean Allen (1990 false statements to an agency of the United States).[3]
2. Nicholas M. Altiere (1983 importation of cocaine)
3. Bernice Ruth Altschul (1992 money laundering conspiracy)
4. Joe Anderson Jr. (1988 income tax evasion)
5. William Sterling Anderson (1987 defraudment of a financial institution, false statements to a financial institution, wire fraud)
6. Mansour Azizkhani (1984 false statements in bank loan applications)
7. Cleveland Victor Babin Jr. (1987 using the U.S. mail service to defraud)
8. Chris Harmon Bagley (1989 conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine)
9. Scott Lynn Bane (Unlawful distribution of marijuana)
10. Thomas Cleveland Barber (Issuing worthless checks)
11. Peggy Ann Bargon (Violation of the Lacey Act, violation of the Bald Eagle Protection Act)
12. David Roscoe Blampied (possess with intent to distribute cocaine)
13. William Arthur Borders Jr. (Conspiracy to corruptly solicit and accept money in return for influencing the official acts of a federal district court judge (Alcee L. Hastings), and to defraud the United States in connection with the performance of lawful government functions; corruptly influencing, obstructing, impeding and endeavoring to influence, obstruct and impede the due administration of justice, and aiding and abetting therein; traveling interstate with intent to commit bribery)
14. Arthur David Borel (Odometer Rollback)
15. Douglas Charles Borel (Odometer Rollback)
16. George Thomas Brabham (Making a false statement or report to a federally insured bank)
17. Almon Glenn Braswell (1983 mail fraud and perjury)
18. Leonard Browder (Illegal dispensing of controlled substance and Medicaid fraud)
19. David Steven Brown (Securities fraud and mail fraud)
20. Delores Caroylene Burleson, aka Delores Cox Burleson (Possession of Marijuana)
21. John H. Bustamante (wire fraud)
22. Mary Louise Campbell
23. Eloida Candelaria
24. Dennis Sobrevinas Capili
25. Donna Denise Chambers
26. Douglas Eugene Chapman
27. Ronald Keith Chapman
28. Francisco Larois Chavez
29. Henry Cisneros (former HUD Secretary)
30. Roger Clinton, Jr. Cocaine charges(half-brother of President Bill Clinton)[3]
31. Stuart Harris Cohn
32. David Marc Cooper
33. Ernest Harley Cox Jr.
34. John F. Cross Jr.
35. Reickey Lee Cunningham
36. Richard Anthony De Labio
37. John Deutch (former Director of Central Intelligence Agency)
38. Richard Douglas
39. Edward Reynolds Downe
40. Marvin Dean Dudley
41. Larry Lee Duncan
42. Galen R. Elmore (Convicted of cattle theft)
43. Robert Clinton Fain
44. Marcos Arcenio Fernandez
45. Alvarez Ferrouillet
46. Henry O. Flipper - guilty of "conduct unbecoming an officer" (1882)
47. William Dennis Fugazy
48. Lloyd Reid George
49. Louis Goldstein
50. Rubye Lee Gordon
51. Pincus Green
52. Robert Ivey Hamner
53. Samuel Price Handley
54. Woodie Randolph Handley
55. Jay Houston Harmon
56. Rick Hendrick
57. John Hummingson
58. David S. Herdlinger
59. Debi Rae Huckleberry
60. Warren C. Hultgren Jr.
61. Donald Ray James
62. Stanley Pruet Jobe
63. Ruben H. Johnson
64. Linda Jones
65. James Howard Lake
66. June Louise Lewis
67. Salim Bonnor Lewis
68. John Leighton Lodwick
69. Hildebrando Lopez
70. Jose Julio Luaces
71. James Timothy Maness
72. James Lowell Manning, (1982, aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false corporate income tax return)
73. John Robert Martin
74. Frank Ayala Martinez
75. Silvia Leticia Beltran Martinez
76. John Francis McCormick
77. Susan H. McDougal
78. Howard Mechanic
79. Brook K. Mitchell Sr.
80. Samuel Loring Morison
81. Charles Wilfred Morgan III
82. Richard Anthony Nazzaro
83. Charlene Ann Nosenko
84. Vernon Raymond Obermeier
85. Miguelina Ogalde
86. David C. Owen
87. Robert W. Palmer
88. Kelli Anne Perhosky
89. Richard H. Pezzopane
90. Orville Rex Phillips
91. Vinson Stewart Poling Jr.
92. James G. Powell
93. Norman Lyle Prouse
94. Willie H.H. Pruitt Jr.[4]
95. Danny Martin Pursley Sr.
96. Charles D. Ravenel
97. William Clyde Ray
98. Alfredo Luna Regalado
99. Ildefonso Reynes Ricafort
100. Marc Rich
101. Howard Winfield Riddle
102. Richard Wilson Riley Jr., Cocaine and marijuana charges, His father was Clinton's Education Secretary.[4]
103. Samuel Lee Robbins
104. Joel Gonzales Rodriguez
105. Michael James Rogers
106. Anna Louise Ross
107. Dan Rostenkowski - Former Democratic Congressman convicted in the Congressional Post Office Scandal
108. Gerald Glen Rust
109. Jerri Ann Rust
110. Bettye June Rutherford
111. Gregory Lee Sands
112. Adolph Schwimmer
113. Albert A. Seretti Jr.
114. Patricia Campbell Hearst Shaw
115. Dennis Joseph Smith
116. Gerald Owen Smith
117. Stephen A. Smith
118. Jimmie Lee Speake
119. Charles Bernard Stewart
120. Marlena Francisca Stewart-Rollins
121. Fife Symington III - former Arizona governor
122. Richard Lee Tannehill
123. Nicholas C. Tenaglia
124. Gary Allen Thomas
125. Larry Weldon Todd
126. Olga C. Trevino
127. Ignatious Vamvouklis
128. Patricia A. Van De Weerd
129. Christopher V. Wade
130. Bill Wayne Warmath
131. Jack Kenneth Watson
132. Donna Lynn Webb
133. Donald William Wells
134. Robert H. Wendt
135. Jack L. Williams
136. Kavin Arthur Williams
137. Robert Michael Williams
138. Jimmie Lee Wilson
139. Thelma Louise Wingate
140. Mitchell Couey Wood
141. Warren Stannard Wood
142. Dewey Worthey
143. Rick Allen Yale
144. Joseph A. Yasak
145. William Stanley Yingling
146. Phillip David Young
147. Keith Sanders
148. Darren Muci
149. John Scott (not a full pardon)
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