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The Scooter Libby clemency controversy arose when U.S. President George W. Bush commuted the prison sentence of Scooter Libby, the former Chief of Staff to Bush's vice president, Dick Cheney, on July 2, 2007. [1]
After denial of Libby's bond by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, President Bush commuted the prison term portion of Libby's sentence on July 2, 2007, leaving in place the felony conviction, the $250,000 fine, and the terms of probation (supervised release).
"President Commutes Libby's Sentence: Calls 30-month Term for Ex-Cheney Aide 'excessive'". Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, July 3, 2007. Accessed July 4, 2007. "Scooter Libby – White House: Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the Vice President" at the Wayback Machine (archived October 11, 2004). White House ...
A commutation is the mitigation of the sentence of someone currently serving a sentence for a crime pursuant to a conviction, without vacating the conviction itself. [ 2 ] List of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president of the United States
A pardon and a commutation of sentence are both ways for the president to grant leniency to someone who has committed a federal crime. A pardon implies that the convicted person has taken ...
Scooter Libby (R) Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney (R), convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in the Plame Affair on March 6, 2007, and was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $250,000 (equivalent to $367,357 in 2023). His sentence was commuted by George W. Bush (R) on July 1, 2007 (2007). [128]
Ex-Judge Michael Conahan, the jurist at the center of the so-called “Kids-for-Cash” scandal, was among 1,499 commutations Biden granted in the largest presidential act of clemency on a single day.
[22] On July 2, 2007, President Bush commuted Libby's jail sentence, effectively erasing the 30 months he was supposed to spend in jail. Libby was pardoned by Donald Trump on Friday, April 13, 2018. In March 2008, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed that the investigation had cost $2.58 million.