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One of the key figures involved in former White House occupant Joe Biden’s thousands of pardons to violent criminals has been terminated. Liz Oyer, the head of the Justice Department’s pardon office, revealed in a LinkedIn post on Friday that she was ousted after three years in the position. “I’m sad to share that I was fired today from the job I have poured my heart and soul into for the last three years,” Oyer wrote on Linkedin. “I am so proud of the team we built in the Office of the Pardon Attorney, who will carry on our important...

A state worker is also facing charges An inmate who was recently granted clemency from then-President Joe Biden has been charged in connection with smuggling K2-laced paper into federal prison. A state worker with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is also facing charges with conspiring to distribute a synthetic cannabinoid into FMC Devens. Inmate Raymond Gaines, 45, had been granted clemency on Jan. 17 in the final days of Biden’s time in office — reducing Gaines’ 2022 federal prison sentence for drug distribution. Now, Gaines and 43-year-old Tasha Hammock, an employee with the state Department of Environmental Protection, are...

President Donald Trump gave full pardons to former Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers convicted in connection to the death of Karon Hylton-Brown, 20, who was fatally struck while being chased by one of the officers in 2020. Trump, on Wednesday night, announced full and unconditional pardons for former officer Terence Sutton and Andrew Zabavsky, who was a lieutenant for the metropolitan police. “I HEREBY DESIGNATE, direct, and empower, the Pardon Attorney, as my representative, to sign a grant of clemency to the person named herein. The Pardon Attorney shall declare that her action is the act of the...

President Trump on Tuesday defended his decision to grant clemency for nearly 1,500 Jan. 6 protestors, including those who were charged and convicted of crimes against police officers. Speaking from the White House, Mr. Trump pointed to left-leaning district attorneys across the country who have pursued light sentences for severe crimes. “Murderers today aren’t even charged. You have murderers in this country that aren’t charged all over,” the president said. “Take a look at what’s gone on in Philadelphia. Take a look at what’s gone on in LA where people murder people and they don’t get charged.” Mr. Trump said...

President Biden’s commutation for Leonard Peltier, who killed two FBI special agents, drew sharp criticism from the FBI Agents Association. Natalie Bara, president of the FBIAA, said the organization was “outraged by then-President Biden’s decision to commute the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a convicted cop killer responsible for the brutal murders of FBI Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams.” Ms. Bara said that while Mr. Biden’s “last-second, disgraceful act” does not change Peltier’s guilt, it “does release him from prison is cowardly and lacks accountability.”

Joe Biden’s presidency has been a four-year-long dumpster fire. While he seems intent on conducting a rewrite of his legacy, his post-election decisions have been rife with controversy, igniting criticism across the political spectrum. Since the election, he went back on his word to pardon his son Hunter Biden, and he followed that up with a record-breaking clemency spree, which included child rapists and murderers.At the time I expressed concern that those actions were just the beginning, and it turns out I was right. Early on Friday morning, Biden issued thousands more commutations."Today, I am commuting the sentences of nearly...

As RedState previously reported, President Joe Biden decided to drop an unwelcome Christmas surprise on the families of murder victims whose killers were on federal death row by commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates to life in prison without the possibility of parole."... guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level," Biden's said in a statement posted to the White House website Monday.In...

President Biden needs to explain his death-sentence commutations “to our faces,” says the furious brother of a young female naval officer murdered by one of the “despicable’’ clemency recipients. “I’d rather see it go back to the way it was, where he was sentenced to death,” said Alex Snell, 42, of Jorge Avila-Torrez, who fatally strangled Snell’s 20-year-old sister, Amanda Snell, in her Arlington, Va., barracks in July 2009. “He should have gotten that penalty,” Snell told The Post of the killer — who also sexually assaulted and murdered two little girls and raped a grad student. In a sweeping...

Fulks and Basham, murderers of Samantha Burns and Alice Donavan in 2002, have received clemancy from their death penalty, today. The families were notified via confference call with the DOJ ahead of public notice. Additionally, nearly 40 others on Federal death row have also recèived clemancy. This is a betrayal of the victims, their friends and families, but also America, because we all paid out of pocket for the apprehensions and trials of these animals. Their clemancies betray the judicial system and juries involved. The Judges don't make the death penalty decions on the Federal level; a jury of peers...

WASHINGTON — President Biden is considering commuting the death sentences of most — if not all — of the 40 men currently on federal death row for murder, according to a new report. In addition to a handful of well-known notorious killers, five of the men murdered children, nine butchered fellow inmates and one killed a prison guard with a hammer while serving a life sentence for raping and murdering his wife, a US Marine. Attorney General Merrick Garland has recommended that Biden, who opposes capital punishment, commute the sentences to life imprisonment for all but a handful of the...

“The rewriting of the history of Jan. 6, 2021, is incredibly disturbing,” Judge Beryl Howell said U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan says she has often reassured police officers traumatized by the violence of Jan. 6, 2021, that “the rule of law still applies.” But as President-elect Donald Trump — once a defendant in Chutkan’s very court — prepares to retake the White House and pardon many Jan. 6 perpetrators, Chutkan now says, “I’m not sure I can do that very convincingly these days.” Chutkan’s comments, delivered this week as she sentenced another member of the Jan. 6 mob to eight...

Cernovich @Cernovich ‘Black Widow,’ Who Murdered 3 Ex-Lovers, Freed in Biden’s Historic Clemency Spree From freebeacon.com 8:56 PM · Dec 18, 2024

Joe Biden has issued a record-breaking clemency grant that benefits fraudsters, drug traffickers, cartel leaders, and crack dealers, court records show. The lame-duck president’s list of convicted criminals includes nearly 1,500 individuals who will have their sentences commuted. On Thursday, Biden announced he would commute sentences for individuals “who were placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic and who have successfully reintegrated into their families and communities.” However, the list of commutations released by the White House includes several high-profile and dangerous criminals. One individual, Francesk Shkambi, was initially sentenced in July 2014 to 27 years in prison. According...

Among the roughly 1,500 people granted clemency by the outgoing President Biden were several corrupt local officials, fraudsters, and a crooked judge. Biden also commuted the sentence of a Chinese spy convicted of possessing child pornography. President Joe Biden’s pardon and commutation spree this week included granting indulgences for convicted fraudsters and corrupt public officials, a move that will likely sharpen criticism of the outgoing executive’s use of the constitutional power. But the president, who is already facing public disapproval for his decision to grant an extensive pardon his own son for charged and potential crimes, may find it even...

President Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people on Thursday which included drug traffickers, embezzlers and even a leader of a biker gang. In the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history, pardoned 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes and handed out 1,499 commutations. A commutation reduces a sentence that is being served, but does not erase a conviction nor imply innocence, according to the Department of Justice. One of those 1,499 was Rita Crundwell, the former comptroller of the city of Dixon, Illinois, who was involved in stealing over $50 million in city funds. She had served...

Outgoing President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others in the biggest ever single-day act of clemency in the US. The names of the people involved have not been given but the pardons are for those convicted of non-violent crimes. The commutations on Thursday were announced for those who were placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden said these people would have received shorter sentences if charged under today's laws, policies, and practices. The pardons come over a week after the president was criticized for pardoning his own son Hunter from his...

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. It's the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. The commutations announced Thursday are for people who have served out home confinement sentences for at least one year after they were released. Prisons were uniquely bad for spreading the virus and some inmates were released in part to stop the spread. At one point, 1 in 5 prisoners had COVID-19, according to a...

Executive Grant of Clemency TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING: WHEREAS SHANLIN JIN, Reg. No. 27074-509, was convicted, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, on an indictment (Docket No. 4:21 -CR-00048- ALM-CAN(1)) charging violations of Section 2252A, Title 18, United States Code, for which a total sentence of 97 months' imprisonment, five years' supervised release, restitution of $30,500, forfeiture of specific property, and a $100 special assessment was imposed on July 14 and 19, 2022;and WHEREAS the said SHANLIN JIN has been confined continuously since his arrest on January 24, 2021...

Over 1,000 people have unsurprisingly received a get-out-of-jail-free card thanks to Joe Biden just a month before he leaves office. The Associated Press reported on Thursday that Biden has decided to commute the sentences of about 1500 convicts who were released from prison during the COVID-19 pandemic and placed on home confinement. In addition, Biden also announced he was pardoning 39 people convicted of “non-violent” crimes. This marks the largest single-day act of clemency in modern American history. Barack Obama previously held the record at 330 right before leaving office in 2017. Biden argued in a statement that he is...

Gov. Gavin Newsom's office on Wednesday announced that he has granted clemency to a person who committed a crime in Monterey County. The governor is allowed to extend executive clemency in the form of a pardon, commutation or reprieve. According to Newsom's office, the governor bases his decisions on the grantee's self-development and accountability after conviction. Andy Silvestre, now a resident of Arizona, applied and was approved for clemency. Silvestre was sentenced to three years probation and 120 days in jail for possession or purchase of cocaine base for sale in 1990. He was approved after providing evidence he has...