US President Joe Biden pardoned Peanut Butter and Jelly turkeys November 19 in a White House ceremony. Writes about it CBS News. Biden also apologized to the head of the Department of Transportation Pete Buttidzic and his husband Chaten (both from ...
US President Donald Trump has pardoned former White House strategist Steve Bannon and 72 other people, and also reduced the sentence for 70 convicts. On the last day as head of state, many expected decisions on pardons and commutation of punishment from Trump, writes ...
US President Donald Trump pardoned Paul Manafort, the former head of his campaign headquarters, who was a political strategist for Viktor Yanukovych and the Party of Regions. Paul Manafort was one of 26 people whose pardon Trump announced on the evening of December 23, writes Voice of America. IN…
The US Department of Justice is investigating a possible secret scheme involving bribes in exchange for presidential pardons. The details were shared by the NPR edition. The 18-page conclusion of the court has been heavily edited, and the names of the persons under investigation have been deleted, as is the identity of the person who should be pardoned ...
On February 18, US President Donald Trump pardoned 11 people serving prison sentences for crimes in high-profile cases - from gambling fraud to tax evasion and drug charges, USA Today writes. Trump, with broad powers...
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo pardoned seven illegal immigrants on July 23 to help them avoid deportation. Under the pardon were illegal immigrants who committed minor criminal offenses, in particular petty theft and drug possession, writes Fox News. "While…
US President Donald Trump commuted the sentence for Alice Marie Johnson, who is serving a life sentence for drug trafficking. This happened just days after reality TV star Kim Kardashian lobbied for the interests of the prisoner during a meeting with Trump at the White House, ...
The US President refused to pardon Konstantin Yaroshenko. A letter of refusal was sent to the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, Tatyana Moskalkova. The American leader found no grounds for a pardon, RIA Novosti reports. “Unfortunately, I received a response from the Deputy Secretary on behalf of President Trump of the United States in which he...
US President Donald Trump has reduced the prison term for the former CEO of Agriprocessors, which specializes in the production of kosher meat products, Sholom Rubashkin. This was reported by the White House press service. “Mr. Rubashkin is a 57-year-old father of ten children... Rubashkin has already served more than 8 years in prison...
The 44th US President Barack Obama pardoned 22 more convicts serving sentences in federal prisons on November 79. In total, during his presidency, he has pardoned more than a thousand people, Time reports. 342 of them were sentenced to life imprisonment. Only…