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President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others in "the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history," the White House announced Thursday ...
Malcolm Hartzog’s life sentence had already been commuted to 30 years in prison by President Barack Obama in 2016, in what at the time was a record-setting use of clemency power.
Biden did recently pardon 39 people convicted of nonviolent crimes and commuted the sentence of nearly 1,500 people who were placed in home confinement, AP News reported. This was the largest ...
On December 20, 2023, Biden pardoned Colombian businessman Alex Saab as part of a prisoner exchange with Venezuela. Saab was detained on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and laundering of monetary instruments (eight counts). [100] [101] On April 24, 2024, Biden pardoned 11 people who were dealing with drugs. [102] [103]
Before Thursday, Biden had issued 122 commutations and 21 other pardons, mainly for people with nonviolent drug offenses. (During his first term, Donald Trump granted clemency to 237 people ...
Joe Biden has issued 157 pardons and commutations between 2021 and this year. These pardons include this week’s pardon of his son, Hunter, who was convicted of tax fraud, and three felony counts ...
Of the acts of clemency, 1,715 were commutations (including 504 life sentences) and 212 were pardons. [2] [3] Most individuals granted executive clemency by Obama had been convicted on drug charges, [4] and had received lengthy and sometimes mandatory sentences at the height of the war on drugs. [5]
Others who made it onto Biden's list of presidential pardons included members who served on the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, including former Representative ...