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  • President Joe Biden commutes sentences for two of Chicago area’s most notorious fraudsters

    12/12/2024 2:51:11 PM PST · by Beave Meister · 16 replies
    Yahoo.com ^ | 12/12/2024 | Jason Meisner
    President Joe Biden on Thursday commuted the sentences of two of the Chicago area’s most notorious fraudsters: former Dixon Comptroller Rita Crundwell, who embezzled nearly $54 million from the tiny town to fund a lavish lifestyle, and Eric Bloom, the onetime leader of a Northbrook management firm who defrauded investors of more than $665 million. The decisions in the clemency petitions for Crundwell and Bloom were announced by the White House as part of a massive list of some 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations. Biden’s orders do not wipe out their felony convictions, but end their sentences immediately. The White...
  • Feds Finally Nail Someone for Banking Crisis

    08/20/2017 6:22:17 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 6 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | August 20, 2017 | Bruce Bialosky
    Democrats led by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are still complaining that bankers did not go to jail for the 2008 banking crisis. That is despite, as previously written about in this column, the crux of the problem was the federal government. Likewise, that is despite the fact the government let well-connected Democrat Jon Corzine slide for actual crimes at MF Global Holdings, also previously written about. Yet they nailed Eric Bloom with highly questionable charges and conduct at trial by the prosecution.After a four-week trial and only three hours of deliberation by the jurors, Eric Bloom, CEO of Sentinel...