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President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he was granting 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations in what his administation called the “largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history.” But it’s not Thursday’s set of commutations that have caught the attention of concerned Americans — it’s those that were quietly given weeks ago to Chinese spies.X user Nick Sortor posted that “Joe Biden just pardoned multiple Chinese spies and an individual convicted of possessing child p*rnography. WHY?”But the thing is, Biden didn’t “just” commute the sentences for these criminals — he did it quietly only days before Thanksgiving.While most Americans...

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...

(CBS) (NEW YORK) A beloved Chinese-American matriarch who tapped new sources of money and votes for New York Republicans was found bound and suffocated with her husband in their Brooklyn apartment, officials said Wednesday. Josephine and Shan Lin, 65 and 70, were discovered bound with duct tape and suffocated with plastic bags in their Williamsburg apartment, city officials said. The apartment, which Josephine Lin also used as an office, did not appear to have been broken into or ransacked, police said. From Chinatown to Albany, Josephine Lin was remembered Wednesday as a prosperous businesswoman and a driving force behind...