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  • Trouble followed three of Clinton’s ‘midnight pardons’

    08/09/2007 5:06:28 PM PDT · by LdSentinal · 9 replies · 954+ views
    The Hill ^ | 8/9/07 | Patrick Fitzgerald and Ilan Wurman
    At least three individuals pardoned by President Clinton during his last minutes in office have run into further trouble with the government. But despite the recent brouhaha over President Bush’s commutation of the prison sentence of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby and the controversy surrounding Clinton’s “midnight pardons,” Congress has shown little appetite for making substantial changes to the executive branch’s clemency power. While some lawmakers over the last decade have called for changes to the pardon system, the few bills proposed have not come close to becoming law. Financier Marc Rich, businessman Almon Glenn Braswell and Roger Clinton Jr., the...