Posted on 12/24/2008 4:59:05 PM PST by meandog
President Bush on Wednesday retracted one of the 19 presidential pardons he granted just before the Christmas holiday.
The White House announced that Isaac Toussie, a Brooklyn developer convicted of fraud and making false statements to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, should not be granted clemency.
White House press secretary Dana Perino said the new decision was "based on information that has subsequently come to light," including on the extent and nature of Toussie's prior criminal offenses. She also said that neither the White House counsel's office nor the president had been aware of a political contribution by Toussie's father that "might create an appearance of impropriety."
"Given that, this was the prudent thing to do," she said.
The new information came out in news reports, Perino said. The counsel's office generally doesn't include vetting of political contributions in its reviews on such matters, as that would be "highly inappropriate on many levels," she said. The White House decision on Toussie had come without a recommendation from the pardon attorney, Ronald L. Rodgers, as Toussie's request for a pardon came less than five years after completion of his sentence, so that eliminated another step in the review process.
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That happened to my family back in the '60s. The dude got caught & FHA went back and looked at everyone's papers. The choice for us was move out & lose all equity (it was a sweat equity deal common at the time), or accept a new loan with a much higher payment. Ultimately we had to sell out & move down - the folks toughed it out for a couple of years but the $125 mortgage payment was just too much.
The crooked developer making false statements on behalf of buyers remains a part of the trouble with finance it seems. Our developer got $10,000 and ten years at club fed. It was his first and only development venture involving perhaps 25 homes. The dude in this story got a relative wrist slap considering the lesser jail time and value of money. And look at the fine - It seems to me at only ten grand the bulk of his illicit profit remains in his pocket. The only reason I can see he wants a pardon is so he can qualify for the licensing to continue what he had been doing before. I say no way.
I did vote for Sarah Palin and that dude she ran with last month, but would have much rather seen a different dude or dudette at the top of the ticket .
I just couldn’t pull the lever for mccain. I dislike him that much. Been saying for over a year before the nomination that if the Republicans are stupid enough to pick him, they aren’t getting my vote.
Well they did and I realized that I’m not a member of the club no more. It made it easier since Tennessee was definitely going to vote Republican and not for Obama, who I difinely didn’t support. In fact, as I told everyone who asked during the election. I had no dog in the hunt..
The not so dark side is we don't quite have Bride of Clinton in the Oval Office (doing God knows what in the sink). As much as I don't like The 0ne and his wholly unearned and illegitimate rise to power, I think we dodged a bomb.
But in this cycle I think a lot of Republicans have come to learn a lot about the turn this party has made in the last dozen or so years, and they don't like it.
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