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A post shared on social media purports President Joe Biden has pardoned over 8,000 people during his four years in office to cover up the administration’s crimes. Verdict: Misleading Much of the ...
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.
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 ...
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]
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 ...
WASHINGTON — President Biden issued a pardon Monday for his brother James Biden, effectively burying the final details of a more than five-year probe into the first family’s influence-peddling ...
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]
The pardons cover any nonviolent offense from Jan. 1, 2024, to Jan. 19, 2025, which was Biden’s last full day as president. The former president drew criticism from many members of the media ...