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RE: Noteworthy News
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(6 hours ago)Belacqua Wrote: Joe Biden has commuted the sentence of the judge who received substantial financial kickbacks for sending people to prison.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/12/us-news/bi...l-conahan/
Reading the article, some facts seem relevant:
The judge has served 13 yrs of a 17.5 yr sentence; he was on home confinement before Biden took office; and he would have received a lesser sentence if charged under today's laws and policies.
All those pardoned meet criteria set forth in a WH stmt.
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RE: Noteworthy News
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(6 hours ago)Belacqua Wrote: Joe Biden has commuted the sentence of the judge who received substantial financial kickbacks for sending people to prison.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/12/us-news/bi...l-conahan/
So?
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RE: Noteworthy News
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(3 hours ago)Belacqua Wrote: (5 hours ago)Fake Messiah Wrote: Reading the article, some facts seem relevant:
The judge has served 13 yrs of a 17.5 yr sentence; he was on home confinement before Biden took office; and he would have received a lesser sentence if charged under today's laws and policies.
All those pardoned meet criteria set forth in a WH stmt.
Oh thank goodness you found a way to justify it.
I was afraid that Biden might have set free a well-connected convicted felon who ruined the lives of many young people for cash.
First of all, Cohanan didn’t ‘ruin’ anyone’s life, that just a stupidly false claim. What he did was close down a state juvenile facility and sent convicted juvenile criminals to a for-profit facility in exchange for kickbacks. These kids were going to be locked up, regardless.
Cohanan served the majority of his sentence (again, for fraud, not because he ruined anyone’s life). You need better sources than the New York Post.
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