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NEWS ABOUT: clemency

clemency stories: 10 news summaries

 Va. Gov 
 Denies 
 Clemency 
 to DC Sniper 

Muhammad will be executed tonight in Virginia

Nov 10, 09 11:13 AM CST
(Newser) - Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine has denied clemency for Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad, clearing the way for Muhammad's execution at 9pm tonight. Muhammad, whose appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court yesterday, will die by lethal injection, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch . His 2002 shooting spree with younger accomplice Lee Boyd... More »

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Tim Kaine • lethal injection • execution • clemency • Virginia • sniper • John Allen Muhammad • Lee Boyd Malvo • Beltway Sniper

(Newser) - The only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, has been released on compassionate grounds and will return to Libya, reports the BBC. Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was sentenced to life for the murder of 270 people, but he is suffering from prostate cancer... More »

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terrorism • Scotland • Libya • bombing • clemency • parole • Lockerbie • plane hijacking • Pan Am Flight 103 • Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi

Tax Cheats Flood IRS,
Looking to Come Clean

Inquiry into Swiss banks leads hundreds of evaders to come clean

Jul 30, 09 9:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - A crackdown on tax evasion has led to a flood of wealthy Americans lining up to reveal their offshore accounts to the IRS, reports the Wall Street Journal. A limited-time offer of lower fines, coupled with the ongoing probe of Swiss bank accounts held by UBS, has produced a stampede... More »

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IRS • UBS • tax evasion • clemency • Internal Revenue Service • Swiss bank • bank secrecy

Bush Rejected Pardons for Milken, Other 'High Rollers'

'He seems to go out of his way to deny the high rollers, the prominent people,' source says

Jan 27, 09 3:00 PM CST
(Newser) - George Bush formally denied pardons for several prominent politicians and businessmen on his last day in office, the Justice Department told the Los Angeles Times today. Among those whose pleas fell on deaf ears were Michael Milken, a businessman convicted of insider trading and stock evasion, and Randall Cunningham, a... More »

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presidential pardon • commutation • clemency • pardon • Michael Milken • President • George W. Bush • John Walker Lindh • Leonard Peltier • Randall Cunningham

Holder Pushed Clemency
for Puerto Rican Militants

Obama's attorney-general pick helped commute sentences for PR nationalists

Jan 9, 09 12:36 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s attorney-general nominee fought for clemency for 16 militant Puerto Rican nationalists during his time in the Clinton administration, the Los Angeles Times reports. Eric Holder pushed Justice Department subordinates to pave the way to Clinton’s clemency grant, documents show, sparking fury from law-enforcement officials who’d... More »

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Attorney General • Bill Clinton • Clinton administration • clemency • Puerto Rico • nationalism • militant • Eric Holder • transition team • President Obama

Bush Retracts Pardon
for Son of Big GOP Donor

White House cites new information in halting process for developer Isaac Toussie

Dec 24, 08 4:55 PM CST
(Newser) - President Bush withdrew a presidential pardon today after it emerged that the father of a convicted Brooklyn developer donated $28,500 to the Republican Party, CNN reports. The president’s counsel approved clemency for Isaac Toussie on charges of mail fraud and false statements to federal officials, White House spokeswoman... More »

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Bush administration • Brooklyn • presidential pardon • clemency • pardon • political donors • George W. Bush • home developer • Isaac Toussie • Robert Toussie

Conrad Black Asks Bush for Clemency

Doing time for fraud, media giant wants sentence commuted

Nov 21, 08 9:49 AM CST
(Newser) - Onetime media mogul Conrad Black is seeking clemency from President Bush in hopes that his 6½-year jail sentence will be commuted, the CBC reports. Black, the former chair of newspaper firm Hollinger International, was convicted on fraud and obstruction of justice charges in 2007 for channeling $6 million from... More »

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media • newspaper • Conrad Black • commutation • clemency • George W. Bush • sentence

Requests for Pardons Flood White House

Petitioners include the American Taliban, but not Scooter Libby

Jul 19, 08 11:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush is nearing the end of his term, and felons are coming out of the woodwork in historic numbers to ask for pardons and reduced sentences, the New York Times reports. It is not unusual for there to be a spike in pardons granted by a president in... More »

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Bill Clinton • presidential pardon • commutation • Martha Stewart • felony • clemency • conviction • Marion Jones • George W. Bush

Huckabee Rocked
Little Rock

Ex-governor intimidated colleagues, backed controversial reforms

Dec 22, 07 11:55 AM CST
(Newser) - Mike Huckabee surged to the top of the polls in the Republican presidential contest partly because of his squeaky clean image, but the persona emerging from years as governor of Arkansas is quite different, the New York Times reports. Supporters and critics alike remember him as a hard-charging iconoclast... More »

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Arkansas • Bill Clinton • Mike Huckabee • clemency • pardon • governor • Election 2008

Commutation Decision Marks Serious Shift

As Texas governor, Bush seldom overruled court decisions

Jul 7, 07 6:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - In six years as governor of Texas, George W. Bush issued 20 pardons and commuted one death sentence. As president, he seemed to be hewing to the same standard, granting 113 pardons (against more than 1,000 appeals) and commuting just four sentences. The fourth commutation sends the Times in... More »

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commutation • clemency • Lewis Scooter Libby • George W. Bush

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