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President Bush Rescinds Pardon
A Blog For All —
... who entered a guilty plea in 2001 to making false statements to get mortgages insured by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. He sold poorly constructed new homes at inflated prices. Why did President Bush take the extraordinary step of rescinding the pardon (which to my knowledge has never been done before)? Well, seems that Toussie's father had donated $28,500 to the GOP , and Bush didn't want to have the appearance of impropriety. I think the Office of Pardon Attorney did the President a grave disservice by failing to conduct due diligence to not ...
What Role Did Bradford Berenson Have In Bush’s Pardongate?
Think Progress —
... The Toussie case isn’t over yet, however. “The president believes that the pardon attorney should have an opportunity to review this case before a decision on clemency is made,” Perino said. And that means Berenson will have an opportunity to continue to bill Toussie for another few weeks in an effort to secure an illegitimate pardon, again. ...
About that Toussie pardon...
Political Animal —
... , who was a top attorney in ... wait for it ... Bush's White House counsel's office from 2001 to 2003. Might he have used his connections to pull a few strings? Dana Perino told reporters on Wednesday that the president now believe the pardon attorney "should have an opportunity to review this case before a decision on clemency is made." That's fine, but why didn't the president believe that before he agreed to issue the pardon? Moreover, it's not altogether clear ...
Funny, if it were funny
Firedoglake —
... 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 ...
