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Patrick says

They are victims of the Pelosi / FBI entrapment scheme, which should itself be prosecuted.

Well at least we know she's human and gravity got her and broke her hip. Was starting to think she was an alien of some sort.

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/biden-calls-for-new-gun-laws-he-can-pardon-his-son-for-breaking

https://www.westernjournal.com/one-bidens-non-violent-pardons-turns-voodoo-practicing-triple-murderer/

“I will take more steps in the weeks ahead,” the statement continued, almost as a warning. “My Administration will continue reviewing clemency petitions to advance equal justice under the law, promote public safety, support rehabilitation and reentry, and provide meaningful second chances.”

Well, it turns out that one very violent offender included in the clemency spree is getting a fourth chance — and given her history, the odds of her needing a fifth chance to see the outside of a prison again are definitely nonzero.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, unnoticed in the clemency-a-thon was the commutation of the 40-year sentence of Virginia Gray for the murder of three lovers, two husbands and a boyfriend, between 1974 and 1996, in insurance fraud.

“Biden, in order to correct historical ‘injustices,’ granted clemency to those ‘convicted of non-violent crimes who were sentenced under outdated laws, policies, and practices that left them with longer sentences than if the individuals were sentenced today,’ the White House said,” according to the Free Beacon.

“Gray, who collected $165,000 from the three insurance settlements, was charged with murder by Maryland state authorities but ultimately convicted in federal court in 2002 for insurance fraud for violating what’s known as the ‘slayers rule,’ which prohibits killers from receiving inheritance and insurance proceeds from their victims’ death,” the Free Beacon reported.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/joes-war-monday-december-23-2024

The New York Times ran another explosive pardon story yesterday headlined, “Biden Commutes 37 Death Sentences Ahead of Trump’s Plan to Resume Federal Executions.” This morning — before 5am Eastern Standard Time!— Biden (if you believe that Biden was up working that early) or more likely Biden’s Autopen, either one, pardoned the country’s most dangerous, most abhorrent criminals; monstrous men and serial killers who committed unspeakable crimes. Biden cleared the bench, pardoning the entire federal death row but three.

Somebody needs to put that Autopen back in its box. The Pen —or the Cabbage, I suppose it’s possible he signed them himself— commuted the sentences of 37 men whose heinous acts were so horrifying that the New York Times did not describe or even name a single one. It offered no examples whatsoever, and to make it harder to research for ourselves, did not name the men who received presidential mercy. The Times described them only in reassuringly generic and racially fair statistics: all men, 15 white, 15 black, a token Asian and six Latin-exes, or Latin-‘X’, or however you say it. Hispanic.

Biden curiously made no public statement. He released a crack-of-dawn written statement cynically saying his heart aches for the victims’ families, but he was “guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender.” In the statement, invisible Biden explained “his conscience” guided him to thwart President Trump: “In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.”

So, he pardoned the Biden 37 out of spite. He didn’t even try to hide it. It was a terrible reason.

I won’t get into the hair-raising specifics of the forgiven crimes either, but only because describing them is so troubling that I refuse to ruin your Christmas Eve Eve. Trust me: the list is a monstrous catalog of depravity and pure evil. But apparently, the list is not newsworthy; apparently, the pardoned crimes are not even worth mentioning by the sycophantic invertebrates who edit the New York Times.

Curiously though, the cowards at the Times meticulously described each of the three men who Biden did not pardon, telling readers their names, ages, race (all white), specific crime, home town, favorite last meal, ball team, eye color, and dream date location. One is a white antisemite synagogue bomber, one is a white supremacist who shot up a black church in Charleston, and the third is one of the two radical Muslim Boston Marathon bombers (white).

Patrick says

Biden cleared the bench, pardoning the entire federal death row but three.

Isn't "pardoning" and "commuting" different? Pardoning would be setting them free while commuting is something like changing the punishment from death to 99 years.

HeadSet says

Patrick says

Biden cleared the bench, pardoning the entire federal death row but three.

Isn't "pardoning" and "commuting" different? Pardoning would be setting them free while commuting is something like changing the punishment from death to 99 years.

Yeah they went from death row to life in prison

https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/biden-commuted-sentences-for-scammers

Biden Commuted Sentences for Scammers Who Defrauded $5 billion From Over 1 Million Victims

How absolutely fitting that the demented diaper soiling ice cream licking pedo criminal puppet “president” who in his lifetime accomplished less than zero in the private sector and only ever grifted off the taxpayer dime while extracting bribes as “the big guy” would end up on his way out of office pardoning some of the worst white collar Ponzi schemers in American history.

Biden commuted sentences for scammers who defrauded $5 billion from over 1 million victims.

It's the single mass jailbreak of scammer in history Here are some of the names and stories.

Zeek CEO Paul Burks' $900 million Ponzi scam claimed over 1 million working-class victims.

A decade later, victims of the scam in a town in North Carolina are still suffering. People took out mortgages on their homes and cashed out their life savings.

Biden had no sympathy for them. Only for the CEO.

Biden also commuted the sentence of James Fry, a hedge fund manager convicted in the Petters Group $1.9 billion Ponzi scheme described as “one of the largest and most complex Ponzi schemes in U.S. history”

Biden commuted the sentence of Timothy McGinn accused of defrauding 900 investors of $136 million, who had been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Victims included a father of two wounded veterans who had been putting aside the money for their expenses.

Former CEO Eric Bloom, accused of committing the "biggest fraud in Chicago court history" in what was described as a $665 million fraud scheme also got a pass from Biden.

Gregory McKnight, who ran a $72 million Ponzi scheme that targeted at least 3,000 investors in every state in the country, got bailed out by Biden.

Biden also sprang Nevin Shapiro, sentenced to 20 years in prison for a $930 million Ponzi scheme.

Biden also intervened on behalf of former CEO Gregory J. Podlucky, who ran a bottled water company and had been accused of a $685 million pyramid fraud loan scheme in which the money was spent on jewels and toy trains.

Marc Dreier, had been sentenced to 20 years in prison for a $740 million Ponzi scheme with losses to investors estimated at $400 million, also got a helping hand from the White House.

The full list includes 18 names involved in multi-million dollar scams. There were also other notorious figures including Paul Daugerdas : a lawyer accused of manufacturing $7 billion in fake tax deductions in what was described as “the biggest tax fraud prosecution ever."

“No one is above the law,” Biden told us, before pardoning his son and executing a mass jailbreak of some of the worst financial scammers and fraudsters in the United States.

No president has ever left office bailing out individuals who did so much harm to so many.

https://slaynews.com/news/grieving-mother-murder-victim-lowlife-biden-killer-off-hook/

President Joe Biden’s callous decision to lavish festive cheer on brutal killers just before Christmas has reopened old wounds for the families of the victims.

As Slay News reported, Biden commuted the death sentences of dozens of federal inmates.

The families of Katie Skeen, 36, and Donna Major, 59, are speaking out after Biden spared the man who killed the two women during a 2017 bank robbery.

38-year-old Brandon Council murdered Skeen and Major in cold blood at CresCom Bank in Conway, South Carolina.

The callous act was captured on surveillance footage.

“She was shown no mercy at all,” Major’s husband, Danny Jenkins, told “Fox and Friends.”

“This man walked into the bank, never said two words to her.

“Shot her three times in total.

“He went and shot her coworker, Katie Skeen as well, who was totally defenseless and unaware of anything happening.”

“I can’t even believe that this is actually happening…”

A jury took just 32 minutes to find Council guilty. But in one stroke of a pen, Biden wiped away the jury’s decision and snatched justice from the victims.

“He’s a low life. Both Biden and Council, they’re both low lifes,” Skeen’s mother, 78-year-old Betty Davis, told the Daily Mail.

Biden is just warming up with the pardons.

Between importing the prison rapefugee output of the third world via a wide-open southern border, and the pardoning of hardened criminals in US Federal prisons, Sleepy Joe's (or his sock puppet handlers') motives are clear - unleash anarchy and destruction on the civil society of the United States.

Misc says

Biden is just warming up with the pardons.

I read he get $1M per pardon, and everyone knows it. This is why he pardoned more than 8,000 people, most of whom he doesn't know. $8B in his last few days in office.

Patrick says

I read he get $1M per pardon

Paid by who?

By the people who want the pardons.

The medals also sound like another pay-for-play scam:

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/biden-issues-imminent-terrorist-threat-warning-due-to-the-eleven-terrorists-he-just-released-from-prison

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/biden-online-store-clearance-sale-presidential-medals-of-freedom-for-999

Patrick says

Biden's dead and impeaching his Presidency is more important than going after a stable of silicon wearing masked actors. I would prefer that the 'shadow government' of SES be summarily arrested for tribunal, exposed to the public and executed after debriefings and interrogations.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/236/79/

Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79 (1915)

Here's an enlightening read, that should answer everyone's question.

The facts, which involve the effect of a pardon of the President of the United States tendered to one who has not been convicted of a crime nor admitted the commission thereof, and also the necessity of acceptance of a pardon in order to make it effective, are stated in the opinion.

He declined to accept the pardon or answer questions as to the sources of his information, or whether he furnished certain reporters information, giving the reason, as before, that the answers might tend to criminate him. He was presented by the grand jury to the district court for contempt, and adjudged guilty thereof and to pay a fine of $500, with leave, however, to purge himself by testifying fully as to the sources of the information sought of him, "and in event of his refusal or failure to so answer, a
Page 236 U. S. 87
commitment may issue in addition until he shall so comply," the court deciding that the President has power to pardon for a crime of which the individual has not been convicted and which he does not admit, and that acceptance is not necessary to toll the privilege against incrimination.
Burdick again appeared before the grand jury, again was questioned as before, again refused to accept the pardon, and again refused to answer upon the same grounds as before. A final order of commitment was then made and entered, and he was committed to the custody of the United States marshal until he should purge himself of contempt, or until the further order of the court. This writ of error was then allowed.
The question in the case is the effect of the unaccepted pardon. The Solicitor General, in his discussion of the question, following the division of the district court, contends (1) that the President has power to pardon an offense before admission or conviction of it, and (2) the acceptance of the pardon is not necessary to its complete exculpating effect. The conclusion is hence deduced that the pardon removed from Burdick all danger of accusation or conviction of crime, and that therefore the answers to the questions put to him could not tend to or accomplish his incrimination.
Plaintiff in error counters the contention and conclusion with directly opposing ones, and makes other contentions which attack the sufficiency of the pardon as immunity and the power of the President to grant a pardon for an offense not precedently established nor confessed nor defined.
The discussion of counsel is as broad as their contentions. Our consideration may be more limited. In our view, of the case it is not material to decide whether the pardoning power may be exercised before conviction. We may, however, refer to some aspects of the contentions of plaintiff in error, although the case may be brought to

So it looks like none of them have to say anything for now. Just wait until real cases develop. Then decide if they accepted the pardon or not. Very convenient.

Besides this seems like a ruling that may be revisited or challenged. At least there's a legal precedence for challenging Biden's Pardons. It seems his son and Liz Cheny are the only two that has been dumb enough to publicly accept them.

The other's can stay tight lipped, then when the case comes for them, reject the pardon, and remain silent with the 5th.

https://www.kunstler.com/p/another-door-opens

It is a fact, perhaps missed by some of you, that Rep. James Comer’s House Oversight Committee just last week issued criminal referrals on James Biden (“Joe’s” brother) and First Son Hunter. Wait-a-minute, was not Hunter already pardoned for Gawd-knows how many misdeeds dating back to 2014, and (supposedly) preemptively for any alleged crimes to come ever hereafter? Part B of that may yet have to be adjudicated. A pardon is not intended to be a get-out-of-jail-free card.