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Jared Kushner called Walmart to get job for first woman freed by First Step Act
Washington Examiner ^ | March 28, 2018

Posted on 03/28/2019 5:48:28 AM PDT by deplorableindc

Catherine Toney began February in prison and ended the month with a job at Walmart after White House adviser Jared Kushner called the Arkansas-based retailer on her behalf.

Toney, 55, is believed to be the first woman freed by the First Step Act, which President Trump signed in December. She was released Feb. 1 after serving 16 years, benefiting from the law's retroactive crack cocaine sentence reductions.

Toney will join Trump on Monday for an event celebrating the criminal justice reform law, his first major bipartisan policy achievement. Other recently released inmates were invited to attend.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: firststepact; jaredkushner; retail; trumpfamily; walmart
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To: Starboard

Sure, she could Jared’s banking for him?


21 posted on 03/28/2019 6:09:17 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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To: Beagle8U

If you feel so bad, you need to blame the president for this.


22 posted on 03/28/2019 6:09:43 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: 9YearLurker

The whole guv official calling a biz for such favors thing makes me queasy.

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I’m not on board with the concept either. The government should not be doing anything to favor specific individuals just because they can be used to push an agenda.


23 posted on 03/28/2019 6:13:37 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Starboard

Exactly.


24 posted on 03/28/2019 6:16:21 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: miss marmelstein

I doubt President Trump would think releasing cons from prison was a big priority if not the liberals in his family.


25 posted on 03/28/2019 6:16:48 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Lots of negative waves on this thread, Moriarity


26 posted on 03/28/2019 6:17:24 AM PDT by onona (It is often wise to allow a person a graceful path.)
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To: miss marmelstein

What would you say if a relative of the president in the Obama administration had done something similiar telling the business to hire someone for the purposes of pushing an agenda? Would you have been OK with that?


27 posted on 03/28/2019 6:17:47 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Gumdrop
the black lady that Kim Kardashian championed

I believe this is the same lady you are referencing....

28 posted on 03/28/2019 6:18:49 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (ui)
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To: onona

Lots of negative waves on this thread, Moriarity

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Not really. Just consistency in principles.


29 posted on 03/28/2019 6:20:28 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: miss marmelstein; All

I have tried to help cons get jobs, apartments, cars, etc. and it always works out the same.

They wind up right back in prison for the same thing that sent them there in the first place.

Drugs, booze, lazy, stupid,...the list is endless. They just can’t function in society.


30 posted on 03/28/2019 6:27:38 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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To: deplorableindc
"When the election was going, no one was looking forward to Trump being in there," Powell said. "People thought the Democrats were going to change the laws and get them out of prison, but then it was the Republicans and Trump who changed the laws."
31 posted on 03/28/2019 6:28:18 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: Beagle8U

Because she lives in Daphne, AL. She wants to live where her family is, and she asked him to give her a job recommendation at Walmart. So he did. She will now have to prove herself in the workplace.


32 posted on 03/28/2019 6:33:47 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: Beagle8U

Honestly, I see nothing wrong with helping others.

Our prison population needs to be reintegrated into society. It is best done with people willing to share, explicit or implicit, responsibility for the actions of such persons.

Welfare should be handled from person to person, too.


33 posted on 03/28/2019 6:37:26 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Beagle8U
Drugs, booze, lazy, stupid,...the list is endless. They just can’t function in society.

Such as former drug abuser Mike Lindell?

34 posted on 03/28/2019 6:42:19 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The most urgent gathering threat to America: the Democrat Party)
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To: deplorableindc

I’m not sure why the negativity here... sometimes these efforts work out. The woman is now in a productive job... how about we see first how she does before we assume she’ll fail?


35 posted on 03/28/2019 6:43:52 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The most urgent gathering threat to America: the Democrat Party)
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To: ScottinVA

I don’t know the man.


36 posted on 03/28/2019 6:46:48 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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To: central_va

Yep!


37 posted on 03/28/2019 6:47:13 AM PDT by sport
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To: Beagle8U

Why such hate?


38 posted on 03/28/2019 6:47:25 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: ConservativeMind

I have tried to help them. They screw up again every time.


39 posted on 03/28/2019 6:49:08 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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To: ConservativeMind

I have tried to help them. They screw up again every time.


40 posted on 03/28/2019 6:49:08 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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