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To: combjelly who wrote (541455)	1/6/2010 9:31:10 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575426

>> He didn't reduce, he eliminated it. Wrong again. Bush considered the sentence to be "excessive", and commuted it. He did NOT eliminate it, and in fact, Bush left in place a $250K fine, probation, and a felony conviction which ended his career. Even THAT, by any reasonable measure, was probably "excessive" for the crime he committed. It is far more than Clinton got for essentially the same crime. >> Despite DOJ guidelines that pardons should only be issued once the perp served some time. That didn't stop Clinton from pardoning Marc Rich (of course, Rich paid dearly for that pardon).