Melvin J. Reynolds, a Democratic Congressman from Illinois, who was convicted of bank fraud, 12 counts of sexual assault, obstruction of justice, and solicitation of child pornography had his sentence commuted on the bank fraud charged and was allowed to serve the final months under the auspices of a half way house. He had served his entire sentence on child sex abuse charges before the commutation of the later convictions.

Carlos A. Vignali had his sentence for cocaine trafficking commuted, after serving 6 of 15 years in federal prison.

Wow,

You know, as I search the web for these (and there's NO shortage of them to cut and paste), I'm struck by how most of them have nothing to do with saving a life long friends a**, or for that matter even that of a long time confidant.

No, most of slick willy's pardons and commuting of sentences seem to merely be bought and paid for.

My hero, Bill Clinton. 

i only speak the truth JR

Well, I got running around to do in about 15 minutes, so I don't have time to post em' all.

But here's a handy list I found in case anyone needs to read more of this crap.

Commutations

1. Benjamin Berger
2. Ronald Henderson Blackley
3. Bert Wayne Bolan
4. Gloria Libia Camargo
5. Charles F. Campbell
6. David Ronald Chandler
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
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 Jacksons 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)
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 Chrles 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. (half-brother of President Bill Clinton)
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. Robert Clinton Fain
43. Marcos Arcenio Fernandez
44. Alvarez Ferrouillet
45. William Dennis Fugazy
46. Lloyd Reid George
47. Louis Goldstein
48. Rubye Lee Gordon
49. Pincus Green
50. Robert Ivey Hamner
51. Samuel Price Handley
52. Woodie Randolph Handley
53. Jay Houston Harmon
54. Rick Hendrick
55. John Hummingson
56. David S. Herdlinger
57. Debi Rae Huckleberry
58. Warren C. Hultgren Jr.
59. Donald Ray James
60. Stanley Pruet Jobe
61. Ruben H. Johnson
62. Linda Jones
63. James Howard Lake
64. June Louise Lewis
65. Salim Bonnor Lewis
66. John Leighton Lodwick
67. Hildebrando Lopez
68. Jose Julio Luaces
69. James Timothy Maness
70. James Lowell Manning, (1982, aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false corporate income tax return)
71. John Robert Martin
72. Frank Ayala Martinez
73. Silvia Leticia Beltran Martinez
74. John Francis McCormick
75. Susan H. McDougal
76. Howard Mechanic
77. Brook K. Mitchell Sr.
78. Samuel Loring Morison
79. Charles Wilfred Morgan III
80. Richard Anthony Nazzaro
81. Charlene Ann Nosenko
82. Vernon Raymond Obermeier
83. Miguelina Ogalde
84. David C. Owen
85. Robert W. Palmer
86. Kelli Anne Perhosky
87. Richard H. Pezzopane
88. Orville Rex Phillips
89. Vinson Stewart Poling Jr.
90. Norman Lyle Prouse
91. Willie H.H. Pruitt Jr.[1]
92. Danny Martin Pursley Sr.
93. Charles D. Ravenel
94. William Clyde Ray
95. Alfredo Luna Regalado
96. Ildefonso Reynes Ricafort
97. Marc Rich - tax evasion fugitive
98. Howard Winfield Riddle
99. Richard Wilson Riley Jr.
100. Samuel Lee Robbins
101. Joel Gonzales Rodriguez
102. Michael James Rogers
103. Anna Louise Ross
104. Dan Rostenkowski - Former Democratic Congressman convicted in the Congressional Post Office Scandal
105. Gerald Glen Rust
106. Jerri Ann Rust
107. Bettye June Rutherford
108. Gregory Lee Sands
109. Adolph Schwimmer
110. Albert A. Seretti Jr.
111. Patricia Campbell Hearst Shaw
112. Dennis Joseph Smith
113. Gerald Owen Smith
114. Stephen A. Smith
115. Jimmie Lee Speake
116. Charles Bernard Stewart
117. Marlena Francisca Stewart-Rollins
118. Fife Symington III - former Arizona governor
119. Richard Lee Tannehill
120. Nicholas C. Tenaglia
121. Gary Allen Thomas
122. Larry Weldon Todd
123. Olga C. Trevino
124. Ignatious Vamvouklis
125. Patricia A. Van De Weerd
126. Christopher V. Wade
127. Bill Wayne Warmath
128. Jack Kenneth Watson
129. Donna Lynn Webb
130. Donald William Wells
131. Robert H. Wendt
132. Jack L. Williams
133. Kavin Arthur Williams
134. Robert Michael Williams
135. Jimmie Lee Wilson
136. Thelma Louise Wingate
137. Mitchell Couey Wood
138. Warren Stannard Wood
139. Dewey Worthey
140. Rick Allen Yale
141. Joseph A. Yasak
142. William Stanley Yingling
143. Phillip David Young
144. Keith Sanders
145. Darren Muci
146. John Scott (not a full pardon)
147. Anthony M Pilla

My point?  Let's not try to act as if ol' Dubya just did something unheard of here.  The Democrats are having a fit over this but their own hero Bill Clinton put a guy with 12 sexual assaults who was and is quite possibly a pedofile back on the street.

Funny how that stuff isn't brought up when converstation turns to George Bush commuting a friend & colleagues sentence!

When I was turning 18 and of voting age, I asked my parents if I was a Democrat or a Republican. They told me I was a Democrat because they are Democrats and Democrats "are more for the small farmers and the working class people".

So, I registered as a Democrat.

The whole two party system seems stupid to me. I don't understand why it can't just be the best person for the job, but no one asked me. Because of that feeling, I've never really paid much attention to the party when voting. I always vote according to who I agree with the most.

When Bill Clinton looked into each one of our homes and lied to us (probably many more times than we know), I truly became embarrassed to have "Democrat" on my voter registration. If his lies had somehow made sense to protect national security or something of that nature, I could have accepted it. But it wasn't like that. He was just trying to hide his lack of integrity with lack of integrity.

I know no one is perfect. I'm not beating the drum for the Republicans either, but I do not understand how any "party" can not be outraged at such a lack of integrity by a man in the position of president . . . and then, to go on and support Hilary in her run for president is absurd to me.

Because of my embarrassment to be associated with such "leaders" THAT is why I am now registered as a Republican.

Isn't it a favorite Republican quote "what's done is done, what's the use in looking back now??"

Oops.

I rarely go down "Political Bashing" street. I didn't realize it was only a one-way.

MzHartz wrote:

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Web, I agree with you to a point. I refuse to put down any party, and I've never voted in the primaries. I may vote this year though, since there is a specific person I do NOT want to see in office. What's pitiful is that last year I "threw away" a vote by voting for a third party candidate. It was a really hard decision for me, because I really didn't want to see the republican candidate get in because of the way he ran his campaign, but I really thought the 3rd party candidate would be the best man for the job.

But, I can't take the actions of one person, even if it is the president, to make me choose one party or another. I've lost more respect for Bush than I did for Clinton, but that doesn't make what either one has done right.

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 keep the faith that one day 3rd party canditates will be viable contenders!

both these turkeys have been an absolute disgrace to the office of President in their own ways. I can't ******* believe it. 

(you know my thoughts on the lesser of 2 evils tho.) 

3) The Court System is now a JOKE. I include JUDGES in my opinion!!


but can't you imagine even further anarchy in our own streets by our own citizens if they weren't there!?!?? never mind the nation we invaded for a moment, how about the criminals running on the street at home here!?!


(not like the tyrants of the Bush administration care about following the law,  etc....

-- Edited by JD The Jazz Doctor at 14:01, 2007-07-03

Our court system IS pretty screwed up. I am not saying it is so bad to throw it out but the technicalities people can get away with! My husband's cousin only got 2nd degree murder for killing his grandma. He came with the gun! How is that not premeditated?! If he just grabbed something from the kitchen then I could see but I digress....
the judge knew how the "SYSTEM" worked so he had to carefully chose the sentence. He said that he felt that John should never be let out into society again. He could not give out LIFE because he knew that there was a great possibility that he could get out earlier for good behavior or overcrowding. I forget what the exact sentence was but to me that is really sad!