Rogues list of Clinton Pardons (Terrorists, drug dealers, and perverts)

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[Rome2000]

  PRESIDENTIAL PARDONS

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Clinton Pardon Grants, January 2001

For more on Marc Rich and other high-profile Clinton pardons, see Notable Pardons, or click to review particular pardons issued by other Presidents and a table of comparative statistics. For more on Presidential pardons in general (origins, procedures, etc.), see JURIST's Presidential Pardons home page.

Name	Home Town	Offenses
ALLEN, Verla Jean	Everton, Arkansas	False statements to agency of United States
ALTIERE, Nicholas M.	Las Vegas, Nevada		Importation of cocaine
ALTSCHUL, Bernice Ruth	Sherman Village, California	Conspiracy to commit money laundering
ANDERSON, Joe, Jr.	Grove Hill, Alabama	Income tax evasion
ANDERSON, William Sterling	Spartanburg, South Carolina		Conspiracy to defraud a federally insured financial institution, false statements to a federally insured financial institution, wire fraud
AZIZKHANI, Mansour T.	Huntsville, Alabama	Conspiracy and making false statements in bank loan applications
BABIN, Cleveland Victor, Jr.	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma	Conspiracy to commit offense against the United States by utilizing the U.S. mail in furtherance of a scheme to defraud
BAGLEY, Chris Harmon	Harrah, Oklahoma		Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine
BANE, Scott Lynn	Mahomet, Illinois	Unlawful distribution of marijuana
BARBER, Thomas Cleveland	Hampton, Florida	Issuing worthless checks
BARGON, Peggy Ann	Monticello, Illinois		Violation of the Lacey Act, violation of the Bald Eagle Protection Act
BHATKA, Tansukhlal		Income tax evasion
BLAMPIED, David Roscoe	Ketchum, Idaho	Conspiracy to distribute cocaine
BORDERS, William Arthur, Jr.	Washington, D.C.		Conspiracy to corruptly solicit and accept money in return for influencing the official acts of a federal district court judge (Alcee L. Hastings), and to defraud the United States in connection with the performance of lawful government functions; corruptly influencing, obstructing, impeding and endeavoring to influence, obstruct and impede the due administration of justice, and aiding and abetting therein; traveling interstate with intent to commit bribery
BOREL, Arthur David	Little Rock, Arkansas	Odometer rollback
BOREL, Douglas Charles	Conway, Arkansas	Odometer rollback
BRABHAM, George Thomas	Austin, Texas		Making a false statement or report to a federally insured bank
BRASWELL, Almon Glenn	Doravilla, Georgia	Conspiracy to defraud government with respect to claims; perjury
BROWDER, Leonard	Aiken, South Carolina	Illegal dispensing of controlled substance and Medicaid fraud
BROWN, David Steven	New York, New York		Securities fraud and mail fraud
BURLESON, Delores Caroylene, aka Delores Cox Burleson	Hanna, Oklahoma	Possession of marijuana
BUSTAMANTE, John H.	Cleveland, Ohio	Wire fraud
CAMPBELL, Mary Louise	Ruleville, Mississippi		Aiding and abetting the unauthorized use and transfer of food stamps
CANDELARIA, Eloida		False information in registering to vote
CAPILI, Dennis Sobrevinas	Glendale, California	Filing false statements in alien registration
CHAMBERS, Donna Denise	Memphis, Tennessee		Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, use of a telephone to facilitate cocaine conspiracy
CHAPMAN, Douglas Eugene	Scott, Arkansas	Bank fraud
CHAPMAN, Ronald Keith	Scott, Arkansas	Bank fraud
CHAVEZ, Francisco Larios	Santa Ana, California		Aiding and abetting illegal entry of aliens
CISNEROS, Henry G.
CLINTON, Roger
COHN, Stuart Harris	New Haven, Connecticut	1. Illegal sale of gold options 2. Illegal sale of silver options
COOPER, David Marc	Wapakoneta, Ohio	Conspiracy to defraud the government
COX, Ernest Harley, Jr.	Pine Bluff, Arkansas	Conspiracy to defraud a federally insured savings and loan, misapplication of bank funds, false statements
CROSS, John F., Jr.	Little Rock, Arkansas	Embezzlement by a bank employee
CUNNINGHAM, Rickey Lee	Amarillo, Texas	Possession with intent to distribute marijuana
DE LABIO, Richard Anthony	Baltimore, Maryland	Mail fraud, aiding and abetting
DEUTCH, John		Described in January 19, 2001 information
DOUGLAS, Richard		False statements
DOWNE, Edward Reynolds		Conspiracy to commit wire fraud and tax evasion; securities fraud
DUDLEY, Marvin Dean	Omaha, Nebraska	False statements
DUNCAN, Larry Lee	Branson, Missouri	Altering an automobile odometer
FAIN, Robert Clinton		Aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false corporate tax return
FERNANDEZ, Marcos Arcenio	Miami, Florida	Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana
FERROUILLET, Alvarez		Interstate transport of stolen property, money laundering, false statements
FUGAZY, William Denis	Harrison, New York	Perjury in a bankruptcy proceeding
GEORGE, Lloyd Reid		Mail fraud
GOLDSTEIN, Louis		Las Vegas, Nevada	Possession of goods stolen from interstate shipment
GORDON, Rubye Lee	Tampa, Florida	Forgery of U.S. Treasury checks
GREEN, Pincus	Switzerland
HAMNER, Robert Ivey		Searcy, Arkansas	Conspiracy to distribute marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute
HANDLEY, Samuel Price	Hodgenville, Kentucky	Conspiracy to steal government property
HANDLEY, Woodie Randolph	Hodgenville, Kentucky	Conspiracy to steal government property
HARMON, Jay Houston		Jonesboro, Arkansas	1. Conspiracy to import marijuana, conspiracy to possess marijuana with intent to distribute, importation of marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute 2. Conspiracy to import cocaine
HEMMINGSON, John		Interstate transport of stolen property, money laundering
HERDLINGER, David S.	St. Simons Island, Georgia		Mail fraud
HUCKLEBERRY, Debi Rae	Ogden, Utah	Distribution of methamphetamine
JAMES, Donald Ray	Fairfield Bay, Arkansas	Mail fraud, wire fraud, and false statement to a bank to influence credit approval
JOBE, Stanley Pruet	El Paso, Texas		Conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and bank fraud
JOHNSON, Ruben H.	Austin, Texas	Theft and misapplication of bank funds by a bank officer or director
JONES, Linda		Conspiracy to commit bank fraud and other offenses against the United States
LAKE, James Howard		Illegal corporate campaign contributions, wire fraud
LEWIS, June Louise	Lowellville, Ohio	Embezzlement by a bank employee
LEWIS, Salim Bonnor	Short Hills, New Jersey	Securities fraud, record keeping violations, margin violations
LODWICK, John Leighton	Excelsior Springs, Missouri	Income tax evasion
LOPEZ, Hildebrando	San Isidro, Texas	Distribution of cocaine
LUACES, Jose Julio	Ft. Lauderdale, Florida	Possession of an unregistered firearm
MANESS, James Timothy		Conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance
MANNING, James Lowell	Little Rock, Arkansas	Aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false corporate tax return
MARTIN, John Robert	Gulf Breeze, Florida	Income tax evasion
MARTINEZ, Frank Ayala	Elgin, Texas	Conspiracy to supply false documents to the Immigration and Naturalization Service
MARTINEZ, Silvia Leticia Beltran	Elgin, Texas	Conspiracy to supply false documents to the Immigration and Naturalization Service
McCORMICK, John Francis	Dedham, Massachusetts	Racketeering conspiracy, racketeering, and violation of the Hobbs act
McDOUGAL, Susan H.
MECHANIC, Howard Lawrence			1. Violating the Civil Disobedience Act of 1968 2. Failure to appear 3. Making false statement in acquiring a passport
MITCHELL, Brook K., Sr.		Conspiracy to illegally obtain USDA subsidy payments, false statements to USDA, and false entries on USDA forms
MORGAN, Charles Wilfred, III		Little Rock, Arkansas	Conspiracy to distribute cocaine
MORISON, Samuel Loring	Crofton, Maryland	Willful transmission of defense information, unauthorized possession and retention of defense information, theft of government property
NAZZARO, Richard Anthony	Winchester, Massachusetts	Perjury and conspiracy to commit mail fraud
NOSENKO, Charlene Ann		Phoenix, Arizona	Conspiracy to defraud the United States, and influencing or injuring an officer or juror generally
OBERMEIER, Vernon Raymond	Belleville, Illinois	Conspiracy to distribute cocaine, distribution of cocaine, and using a communications facility to facilitate distribution of cocaine
OGALDE, Miguelina	Glendale, California	Conspiracy to import cocaine
OWEN, David C.		Olathe, Kansas	Filing a false tax return
PALMER, Robert W.	Little Rock, Arkansas	Conspiracy to make false statements
PERHOSKY, Kelli Anne	Bridgeville, Pennsylvania	Conspiracy to commit mail fraud
PEZZOPANE, Richard H.		Palo Heights, Illinois	Conspiracy to commit racketeering, and mail fraud
PHILLIPS, Orville Rex	Waco, Texas	Unlawful structure of a financial transaction
POLING, Vinson Stewart, Jr.	Baldwin, Maryland	Making a false bank entry, and aiding and abetting
PROUSE, Norman Lyle		Conyers, Georgia	Operating or directing the operation of a common carrier while under the influence of alcohol
PRUITT, Willie H. H., Jr.	Port Richey, Florida	Absent without official leave
PURSLEY, Danny Martin, Sr.	Goodlettsville, Tennessee	Aiding and abetting the conduct of an illegal gambling business, and obstruction of state laws to facilitate illegal gambling
RAVENEL, Charles D.		Charleston, South Carolina	Conspiracy to defraud the United States
RAY, William Clyde	Altus, Oklahoma	Fraud using a telephone
REGALADO, Alfredo Luna	Pharr, Texas	Failure to report the transportation of currency in excess of $10,000 into the United States
RICAFORT, Ildefonso Reynes		Houston, Texas	Submission of false claims to Veterans Administration
RICH, Marc	Switzerland
RIDDLE, Howard Winfield	Mt. Crested Butte, Colorado	Violation of the Lacey Act (receipt of illegally imported animal skins)
RILEY, Richard Wilson, Jr.			Possession of cocaine with intent to distribute
ROBBINS, Samuel Lee	Cedar Park, Texas	Misprision of a felony
RODRIGUEZ, Joel Gonzales	Houston, Texas	Theft of mail by a postal employee
ROGERS, Michael James		McAllen, Texas	Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana
ROSS, Anna Louise	Lubbock, Texas	Distribution of cocaine
RUST, Gerald Glen	Avery, Texas	False declarations before grand jury
RUST, Jerri Ann		Avery, Texas	False declarations before grand jury
RUTHERFORD, Bettye June	Albuquerque, New Mexico	Possession of marijuana with intent to distribute
SANDS, Gregory Lee	Sioux Falls, South Dakota	Conspiracy to distribute cocaine
SCHWIMMER, Adolph			Conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, conspiracy to export arms and ammunition to a foreign country and related charges
SERETTI, Albert A., Jr.	McKees Rocks, Pennyslvania	Conspiracy and wire fraud
SHAW, Patricia Campbell Hearst	Wilton, Connecticut	Armed bank robbery and using a firearm during a felony
SMITH, Dennis Joseph		Redby, Minnesota	1. Unauthorized absence 2. Failure to obey off-limits instructions 3. Unauthorized absence
SMITH, Gerald Owen	Florence, Mississippi	Armed bank robbery
SMITH, Stephen A.
SPEAKE, Jimmie Lee	Breckenridge, Texas	Conspiracy to possess and utter counterfeit $20 Federal Reserve notes
STEWART, Charles Bernard	Sparta, Georgia	Illegally destroying U.S. Mail
STEWART-ROLLINS, Marlena Francisca		Euclid, Ohio	Conspiracy to distribute cocaine
SYMINGTON, John Fife, III
TANNEHILL, Richard Lee	Reno, Nevada	Conspiracy and restraint of trade
TENAGLIA, Nicholas C.	Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania		Receipt of illegal payments under the Medicare program
THOMAS, Gary Allen	Lancaster, Texas	Theft of mail by postal employee
TODD, Larry Weldon	Gardendale, Texas	Conspiracy to commit an offense against the U.S. in violation of the Lacey Act and the Airborne Hunting Act
TREVINO, Olga C.	Converse, Texas		Misapplication by a bank employee
VAMVOUKLIS, Ignatious	Exeter, New Hampshire	Possession of cocaine
VAN DE WEERD, Patricia A.	Tomahawk, Wisconsin	Theft by a U.S. Postal employee
WADE, Christopher V.
WARMATH, Bill Wayne	Walls, Mississippi	Obstruction of correspondence
WATSON, Jack Kenneth	Oakridge, Oregon	Making false statements of material facts to the U.S. Forest Service
WEBB, Donna Lynn	Panama City, Florida		False entry in savings and loan record by employee
WELLS, Donald William	Phenix City, Alabama	Possession of an unregistered firearm
WENDT, Robert H.	Kirkwood, Missouri	Conspiracy to effectuate the escape of a federal prisoner
WILLIAMS, Jack L.			Making false statements to federal agents
WILLIAMS, Kevin Arthur	Omaha, Nebraska	Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine
WILLIAMS, Robert Michael	Davison, Michigan	Conspiracy to transport in foreign commerce securities obtained by fraud
WILSON, Jimmie Lee	Helena, Arkansas		Converting property mortgaged or pledged to a farm credit agency, and converting public money to personal use
WINGATE, Thelma Louise	Sale City, Georgia	Mail fraud
WOOD, Mitchell Couey	Sherwood, Arkansas	Conspiracy to possess and to distribute cocaine
WOOD, Warren Stannard	Las Vegas, Nevada		Conspiracy to defraud the United States by filing a false document with the Securities and Exchange Commission
WORTHEY, Dewey	Conway, Arkansas	Medicaid fraud
YALE, Rick Allen	Belleville, Illinois	Bank fraud
YASAK, Joseph A.	Chicago, Illinois		Knowingly making under oath a false declaration regarding a material fact before a grand jury
YINGLING, William Stanley		Interstate transportation of stolen vehicle
YOUNG, Phillip David	Little Rock, Arkansas	Interstate transportation and sale of fish and wildlife

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Justice. List of commutations also available.

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[rodguy911]

How this clown continues to BS women I will never

understand.

[prairiebreeze]

85 lashes per pardon! ping

[rodguy911]

You are back to a complicit press again. Massive protection

by the MSM, anytime we come down on him I can hear it now,

oh "can't you stop bashing the Clintons, that was in the

past forgive and forget, they have it down like a science.

It's an endless pass for these two.

[Mo1]

I'm noticing a lot of mail and bank frauds

But all the "Altering an automobile odometer" is odd

[Viet-Boat-Rider]

YEHA...LETS ELECT THE SECOND HALF OF THIS DASTERDLY DEUO...

HILLARY HIPOCRIT CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT MY A$$...!!

[prairiebreeze]

Liars, thieves, drug dealers and con artists. Yup, that's Bubba's crowd.

Prairie

[Free ThinkerNY]

Clemency Offered to FALN Terrorists

Bill Clinton pardoned sixteen members of the FALN organization. These men belonged to a Puerto Rican freedom terrorist group, which was responsible for planting over 130 bombs in public places in the U.S. They killed six people and injured seventy. The FALN represented the single largest terrorism campaign in the U.S. “Yet Clinton’s clemency released individuals from prison after serving less than twenty years of terms running from fifty-five to ninety years.”

Again, President Clinton did not follow formal pardon procedures. He skipped the Department of Justice and attorneys. The FBI did not conduct any background checks and the FALN did not even execute a formal request. These facts, coupled with the Department of Justice’s 1996 denial of their clemency, make Clinton’s motives highly questionable. The fallout was terrible for Clinton, receiving bipartisan condemnation and public fury. The Houseof Representatives later passed a resolution condemning Clinton’s pardon as an explicitly illegal action. One person, however, may have benefited from this clemency grant. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the President’s wife, won her senatorial bid for New York in the following election. She was elected senator in a state where 1.3 million Puerto Ricans would vote in the election.

Whether New York’s large Puerto Rican population voted on her behalf is not clear in the literature, but speculation leads to few legitimate justifications. Investigations were launched to find reasonable grounds for the clemency. However, “Congressional efforts to learn more about the FALN matter came to an end when Clinton invoked executive privilege to refuse subpoenas from congressional committee.” As the critics raged, the White House maintained that the pardon power is not subject to legislative deliberation.

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CyberAlert. Tracking Media Bias Since 1996

Friday August 27, 1999


The Police Commissioner in New York City held a press conference Monday featuring officers injured by FALN attacks, including one who was blinded, to denounce President’s Clinton’s decision to pardon 16 FALN terrorists now serving time. Incredibly, only FNC bothered to tell viewers about the event or use it as a hook to explore Clinton’s August 11 decision.

Not only have ABC, CBS and NBC not yet looked at this issue according to MRC analysts Jessica Anderson, Brian Boyd and Geoffrey Dickens, neither have CNN or MSNBC. MRC analyst Paul Smith informed me the pardons have yet to be mentioned on CNN’s Inside Politics or The World Today and MRC analyst Mark Drake has not seen them cited on MSNBC’s The News with Brian Williams.

The August 18 CyberAlert outlined the basic facts of the case and ran an excerpt from a Wall Street Journal editorial about the rarity of pardons, suggesting this decision was motivated by Hillary’s Senate run, and how, despite White House claims, those to be pardoned do have ties to killings and injuries. Here again are two paragraphs from the August 13 Journal:

"Deputy White House Chief of Staff Maria Echaveste is quoted in yesterday’s papers as saying that those offered clemency ‘never killed anyone.’ This is preposterous. No one died in the [1983 Hartford] Wells Fargo heist but innocent people lost their lives in more than 100 attacks carried out by the same terrorist group on U.S. facilities. Even if these 16 terrorists didn’t murder anyone directly, they were part of a conspiracy that was to be extended by the funds stolen from the bank in Connecticut....
"To understand how rare it is for a President to commute a sentence or offer remission of a fine, as Mr. Clinton did for the 16 Puerto Rican terrorists this week, consider the numbers supplied by the Office of the Pardon Attorney. From the time he took office in January 1993 until April 2, the date the Office prepared its last report, Mr. Clinton had received 3,042 petitions for clemency. Until Wednesday, he had granted a total of three."

For more details, go to: http://www.mediaresearch.org/news/cyberalert/1999/cyb19990818.html#4

The August 20 CyberAlert noted how Greg Pierce, in his Inside Politics column for the Washington Times, reported how "FOP President Gilbert G. Gallegos, in a letter to Mr. Clinton yesterday, called the offer a ‘slap in the face’ to law enforcement officers everywhere." Gallegos also countered Clinton’s claim that the convicts did not hurt anyone. To read the letter from Gallegos which the networks skipped, go to: http://www.mediaresearch.org/news/cyberalert/1999/cyb19990820.html#5

Monday night, August 23, FNC uniquely pursued the story with a piece by Gary Matsumoto on the Fox Report. MRC analyst Brad Wilmouth transcribed the report, which began:
"From the mid ‘70s to the mid ‘80s, an obscure guerilla group, calling itself the Armed Forces of National Liberation, set off bombs and robbed banks across the country in an effort to secure independence for Puerto Rico. Now the convicted, sixteen of them serving in U.S. prisons, want clemency. And President Clinton is prepared to give it to them on condition that they renounce violence. Noble freedom fighters, or terrorist thugs? The New York Police Department is unanimous in its views."
Howard Safir, NYC Police Commissioner: "The NYPD is vehemently opposed to President Clinton’s offer of clemency to sixteen convicted members of the FALN. Let’s talk about some of the facts, such as the fact that the FALN is responsible for at least 150 bomb attacks over a nine year period, that resulted in six deaths and seventy injuries."
Matsumoto: "More Puerto Ricans live in New York than in San Juan, Puerto Rico’s capital. One million, according to the last census. That comes to about twelve percent of New York City’s population, a hefty voting block. Detective Richard Pascarella was blinded by an FALN bomb planted outside of New York Police Headquarters. Pascarella believes the President is indulging in blatant politicking for his wife."
Richard Pascarella, retired NYPD detective: "This is really truly pandering to the Hispanic community, the Latino community, for their vote when Mrs. Clinton runs for the vacated seat of Patrick Moynihan in New York state."
Matsumoto: "Some Puerto Ricans believe the FALN never belonged in jail in the first place."
Rafael Martinez-Alequin, The Free Press: "People who fight for the independence of their country, whether it be in Puerto Rico, or Northern Ireland, they are not criminals."
Matsumoto: "But this man’s in a minority among Puerto Ricans, who routinely vote against independence in referendums. One of the bombs was planted here at this New York City landmark near Wall Street. The Fraunces (sp?) Tavern, one of the oldest in the United States. It was January 1975, a member of the FALN entered through this door with a bomb stuffed in a valise. The blast ripped through a lunchtime crowd, killing four people and injuring more than fifty. The New York cops, who say they speak for the dead and injured, have little sympathy for the FALN members complaining of long prison terms."
Anthony Senft, NYPD Detective: "But I have a life sentence. I lost an eye. I have a severe case of vertigo. I lost sixteen percent of hearing on one side and forty on the other side."
Matsumoto concluded: "No response yet from the White House. In New York, Gary Matsumoto, Fox News."

In his syndicated column this week for the Creator’s syndicate, MRC Chairman L. Brent Bozell ruminated:
"Imagine for a moment what would be the media reaction if this were a Republican President. Frankly, I think it impossible to overestimate the level of media outrage. Footage of these terrorists' bombings would run like a broken record. A parade of tearful family members of the victims, or the victims themselves, would be brought on the morning talk shows to share their grief and vent their anger at such an insensitive President. The pundits would openly raise questions of ruthless political pandering.
"But now they're nowhere to be found. See, there's this juicy rumor about George W., and, well...."

[k2blader]

Okay, so let me get this straight. I'm supposed to bash Clinton here but excuse President Bush for saying "he was an innovator, a serious student of policy, and a man of great compassion. In the White House, the whole nation witnessed his brilliance and mastery of detail, his persuasive power, and his persistence"?

[theoldChief]

"I'm noticing a lot of mail and bank frauds"

More striking to me at least, is the number of "possession with intent to distribute..."

[Rome2000]

W HAD to be there, his dad was there because he is a decent man, even Ford took a pass.

W would have been at a Kerry inauguration, it comes with the territory.

I think every statement W and his dad made were dripping with sarcasm and double entendres.

[Rome2000]

FERNANDEZ, Marcos Arcenio Miami, Florida Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana

[SittinYonder]

Did you get this list from the Clinton Library? :-)

[Rome2000]

Not the list of pardons but the photos yes.

Somehow, both the minor league scumbags and hardcore terrorists that Clinton and his mafia pardoned don't show up at the museum or in the leftist press.

"I want the building to subliminally suggest a giant penis".

[Mo1]

There are a lot of drug dealers on that list

[pete anderson]

Interesting list. I am sure Clinton must have pardoned more people than any other president in history. I bet Clinton pardoned more people than all the other presidents combined.

[SittinYonder]

Somehow, both the minor league scumbags and hardcore terrorists that Clinton and his mafia pardoned don't show up at the museum or in the leftist press.

I guess there wasn't room in the library for this because there was so much information about how a President perjured himself and lied to the American people. [/s]

[Rome2000]

This list leaves out the child molester Mel (High Five I just raised whiteys taxes) Reynolds for some reason, Klintoon pardoned him as well.

[Rome2000]

I observed the leftist media today, fauning over the criminal SOB who has decimated their party and left the USA wide open to attack by OBL, never mind the pardons.

This is their last hurrah.

New day dawning.

[Murp]

Do you know Mitchell Wood? I do. Noone should comment on Clintons pardons, unless they know the facts. Mitchell was a young, good looking guy, that moved to Little Rock at the age of 23.(1969) He had the misfortune of meeting up with Dan Lassiter, a crony of Clinton, and at that time a very successful horse owner, and bond daddy doing business with the state of Arkansas.

Mitchell served his time in prison. His crime was handing out "free" drugs to Lassiters party goers. His pardon request was initiated by his boss, without his knowledge. All the proper procedures were followed. Clinton granted it, but if ever there was one that needed granting, this was the one. Mitchell is now married, a wonderful father, and a born again christian. He is a voluntary baseball and soccer coach, a wonderful example of what the Jesus Christ can do for us all.

[Rome2000]

He should start his own religion!!!