Posted on 02/19/2020 9:55:45 AM PST by Red Badger
President Donald Trump granted clemency to eleven people Tuesday in what mainstream media outlets are calling a clemency spree, but many are ignoring the several women including women of color who were granted relief from long prison sentences, in pursuit of headlines tying Trump to corruption and white collar crime.
Trump did, of course, grant commutations and pardons to several high-profile individuals, including former governor Rod Blagojevich, former New York police comissioner Bernard Kerick, financier Mike Milken, and pro-football Hall of Famer Edward DeBartolo, Jr.
But while media focused on creating a common thread tying these commutations and pardons together in an effort to, it seems, connect them back to Trump campaign operative Roger Stones ongoing trial, the media missed several other pardons and commutations granted to women who took minor roles in criminal enterprises yet received major Federal prison sentences.
Angela Stanton received a pardon, at the behest of Alaveda King (neice of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.), after serving a 6-month home confinement sentence for her role in a stolen vehicle ring. After doing her time, Stanton went on to become an advocate for former inmates, pioneering re-entry programs for those returning to the workforce from a stint in prison, focusing on the critical role of families in the process, according to the White Houses official statement on the matter.
Trump, it seems, built on his earlier criminal justice reform initiatives in deciding to commute the sentences of several other women, including Crystal Munoz, who served her time with Alice Marie Johnson the woman found herself free after forging a friendship with Kim Kardashian West who, subsequently, took her case to the White House. Johnson came to consider Munoz her one of her prison daughters, she told the Associated Press, and urged the President to grant her the same mercy hed granted Johnson.
We did a lot of crying and a lot of praying together for things to change for us, Johnson said.
Munoz gave birth in Federal custody, while awaiting trial on charges of conspiring to distribute majujuana. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison despite contending that her only role was drawing a map others allegedly used in moving the drugs from Mexico to Texas. The AP reports that Munoz received ineffective counsel at her trial and suffered dire consequences.
Tynice Nichole Hall also received a commutation Tuesday, releasing her from an 18-year sentence for allowing her apartment to be used to distribute drugs, after serving more than 14 years, according to the White House. While in prison, Ms. Hall has completed a number of job-training programs and apprenticeships, as well as coursework towards a college degree. In addition, Ms. Hall has taught prison educational programs to other inmates.
And then theres Judith Negron who, the AP reports, had been serving 35 years at a Florida prison for health care fraud, conspiracy and money laundering when she was released Tuesday. Negrons own prison warden wrote a letter to the president in support of granting Negron clemency.
The White House pushed these names into the spotlight Tuesday night, but few media outlets seemed to pick up on them, and when they did, they scoffed at their inclusion. The Associated Press, who did report on Munoz and Negron, even accused the Trump White House of trying to distract from more high-profile pardons and clemencies.
But Trump also commuted the sentences of several women with more sympathetic cases to balance out the men convicted of corruption, they said.
Liberal: “This is just a ploy so the women will let him grab them by the *****!”
#RacistMedia which will come out in support of #RacistBloomberg...
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You mean Disney, Comcast, ATT
I believe that this indicates that Trump is getting ready to pardon some people who are close to his own heart.
To bad they are not focusing on ONGOING corruption in DC!! God the MSM is so hypocritical Trump is bringing all of these cockroaches into the light!!!
He pardoned Mike Milken? That is just wrong. That guy has spent the last 28 years donating money to every leftwing cause imaginable. Big time friend of Bill and Hillary.
And now he owes Trump...............
bfl
They may not admit it, but the left must be ecstatic Milken has been pardoned.
That so cute! You think that Liberals live up to their obligations!
How quaint. Wasn't it 1921 when they last did so?
He now owes Trump, so what is the Quid pro Quo?............
You trust leftists. I don’t. He doesn’t owe Trump anything. He’s already been out of jail for years. Using his money for every leftist cause. He’s probably working on getting Hillary elected as we speak.
Mike Flynn should not only be ‘pardoned’ he should be immediately be announced as an Adviser to The President. General Flynn knows where the Barry Soetoro ‘bodies are buried’, especially on the Ukraine and Russian collusion byt the obamaroid.
Whenever the government charges/indicts you with a crime, they always hold back a few extra charges just in case................
It doesn’t fit the narrative. So of course it is ignored.
Milken has been living the good life among the elite for the last 28 years. Ivan Boesky just keeps to himself in La Jolle.
He pardoned Milken because he ha d worked with him in the past
Milken was hammered over junk bonds some of which failed in leveraged buyout schemes but many of which over time proved to be carried along by a good economy to be viable and paid their interest
It could be argued he was railroaded by public opinion against
Insider trading was the tool used to prosecute him
Im ambivalent of his crimes
He has surely redeemed himself since no question of that .
I think one of Trumps points in doing this was that the pardons werent political, but simply cases in which he felt that the prosecutors had overreached and were converting regulatory infractions into crimes, because they were obsessed with getting this particular person. Oddly enough, it was Giuliani who prosecuted Miliken, but hes apparently okay with the pardon,
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