Bush pardons coal mine bomber, 13 others

[fighttotheend]

Others granted pardons Wednesday were:

Gene Armand Bridger, Elkhart, Ind., conspiracy to commit mail fraud, mail fraud, sentenced May 29, 1963, to five years probation.

Cathryn Iline Clasen-Gage, Rockwall, Texas, misprision of a felony, sentenced Aug. 21, 1992, to 18 months in prison and a year of supervised release.

Thomas Kimble Collinsworth, Buckner, Ark., receipt of a stolen motor vehicle that had been transported in interstate commerce, sentenced Aug. 22, 1989, to three years probation and a $5,000 fine.

Morris F. Cranmer Jr., Little Rock, Ark., making materially false statements to a federally insured institution, sentenced March 30, 1988 to nine months in jail.

Rusty Lawrence Elliott, Mount Pleasant, Tenn., making counterfeit money, sentenced April 26, 1991, to a year and a day in prison, two years supervised release and a $500 fine.

Adam Wade Graham, Salt Lake City, Utah, conspiracy to deliver 10 or more grams of LSD, sentenced Nov. 23, 1992 to 30 months in prison and five years of supervised release, including 250 hours of community service.

Rufus Edward Harris, Canon, Ga., possession of tax-unpaid whiskey, sentenced June 17, 1963, to two years in prison, possession and sale of tax-unpaid whiskey. He also was on May 28, 1970 to five years in prison, later reduced to two years probation.

Larry Paul Lenius, Moorhead, Minn., conspiracy to distribute cocaine, sentenced Sept. 29, 1989, to 36 months probation and payment of $2,500 in restitution.

Larry Lee Lopez, Bokeelia, Fla., conspiracy to import marijuana, sentenced July 19, 1985 to three years probation.

Bobbie Archie Maxwell, Lansing, Mich., mailing a threatening letter, sentenced Sept. 6, 1962, to 12 months probation.

Denise Bitters Mendelkow, Salt Lake City, Utah, embezzlement by a bank employee, sentenced May 21, 1981, to two years probation.

Michael John Pozorski, Schofield, Wis., unlawful possession of an unregistered firearm, sentenced Sept. 14, 1988, to four years probation and payment of a $750 fine.

Mark Lewis Weber, Sherwood, Ark., selling Quaalude tablets, selling, using and possessing marijuana, sentenced Aug. 20, 1981, following Air Force court-martial to 30 months confinement at hard labor, forfeiture of 30 months pay at $334 a month and a dishonorable discharge.

[JuniperLea]

1. Recruiting?

He must need more crony staff...

[merwin]

2. where is a link to this?

[fighttotheend]

3. msn news..let me know if links works or not....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9521741/

[Imagevision]

4. He better pardon his good bud Ken Lay while he still can...!

[Maine-ah]

5. quite a few with drug convictions.

maybe he's back on the coke and not "da juice".

[tonkatoy57]

6. That's quite a list

Looks like a pretty good sampling of the criminal justice system, there's even a bootlegger in there.

How exactly does one go about receiving a Presidential pardon? I'm guessing you either have to have been done a grave injustice or have some serious political juice. It doesn't give the ages of the people pardoned. I wonder how many of them are children of Bush Pioneers and Rangers?

[NYC Liberal]

7. Here's a good site with lots of info:

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/pardons.htm

[gratuitous]

8. Just gettin' his pardonin' hand warmed up

The big ones are yet to come, although there does seem to be a preponderance of drug users and abusers on that list. Hmmmm.