The Media is Ignoring Some of Biden’s Most Horrific Pardons
Biden’s pardons are a ‘who’s who’ of horrible people.
My colleague Mary Chastain has already told you about some of the worst of Joe Biden’s many awful pardons, but there are more and they are just as bad.
It’s amazing how the media is ignoring this and treating it as normal. It’s not normal and we all know how they would howl if these were Trump pardons.
Chuck Ross and Joseph Simonson of the Washington Free Beacon recently profiled a few of them:
There is Daniel Fillerup, sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling fentanyl that killed an Albany woman, and Shelinder Aggarwal, an Alabama “pill mill” doctor who the Department of Justice said “directly contributed to the opioid epidemic.” And Biden commuted the 17.5-year prison sentence of former Luzerne County, Pa., judge Michael Conahan, who took $2.1 million in kickbacks from a for-profit prison executive in exchange for sentencing juveniles to those facilities…
Joseph Shereshevsky received clemency for his role in a $255 million real estate Ponzi scheme that authorities said was targeted at Orthodox Jews. He was sentenced to just under 22 years in prison in 2011.
He was not the only financial criminal whom Biden granted mercy. Paul Burks, sentenced to more than 14 years in prison in 2017 for operating a $900 million internet Ponzi scheme, is now free…
Also receiving clemency: Meera Sachdeva, a Mississippi doctor sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2012 for defrauding Medicare by providing diluted chemotherapy drugs and old needles to cancer patients. One patient of Sachdeva’s clinic claimed to have contracted HIV because of old needles.
I think there’s actually an episode of Law & Order Criminal Intent that’s based on that last one.
Jim Geraghty of National Review profiled others:
Biden commuted the sentence for convicted fraudster and former Jreck Subs principal Christopher M. Swartz, who was sentenced to twelve and a half years in prison for fraud and tax evasion, and will serve only seven years. From his sentencing:
“For over a decade, Mr. Swartz stole millions from lenders, investors, and the United States, using multiple schemes, shell companies and layers of transactions in an effort to escape detection,” said Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Goldberg. “His 12 ½ year sentence sends the clear message to those involved in such financial chicanery that their schemes — no matter how complex — will be uncovered, investigated and successfully prosecuted.”
“Christopher Swartz stole millions of dollars from investors and lenders and cheated the public treasury out of millions of dollars of taxes,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Jaquith. “His elaborate scheme to defraud relied on a mind-boggling web of accounts and enterprises and concealment of his assets and diversions of funds. Swartz inflicted terrible harm on people who trusted him with money they needed to support their families, educate their children, pay for medical care, and retire. This case sends a strong message that such treachery will not be tolerated.”
Brianna Lyman of The Federalist notes that there were also some spies from China who were on the list:
Biden Quietly Commuted Sentences Of Chinese Spies
President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he was granting 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations in what his administation called the “largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history.” But it’s not Thursday’s set of commutations that have caught the attention of concerned Americans — it’s those that were quietly given weeks ago to Chinese spies.
X user Nick Sortor posted that “Joe Biden just pardoned multiple Chinese spies and an individual convicted of possessing child p*rnography. WHY?”
But the thing is, Biden didn’t “just” commute the sentences for these criminals — he did it quietly only days before Thanksgiving.
While most Americans were finalizing their menus and getting into the holiday spirit, Biden commuted the sentence of Yanjun Xu on November 22. Xu was convicted in 2022 for “conspiracy to commit economic espionage; conspiracy to commit trade secret theft; attempted economic espionage by theft or fraud; attempted theft of trade secrets by taking or deception.”
When Trump starts pardoning the J6 folks, and he will, the media is going to set its hair on fire despite remaining silent on the pardons described here. They should be ignored, or mocked. Biden’s pardons are a ‘who’s who’ of horrible people.
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When I think of Biden issuing pardons, the image of late-night huckster Ron Popeil selling Chop-o-matics pops into my head.
At least Popeil sold semi useful stuff. Biden is absolutely worthless, and a demented pervert.
Was there a silent auction for the pardons?
Of course. Just not to Biden.
You honestly think he has the slightest idea who these people are?
He signed what he was told to sign, like always.
Hunter was in charge of collecting the cash. He likely got it all prior to December 1st.
First, he pardons his criminal son for gun crimes and then calls for gun control for everyone else.
Second, he doesn’t know what he’s doing. The puppeteer’s hand is controlling his every move.
Third, he’s the lamest duck that ever walked the earth.
Fourth, he’s already gone, he just doesn’t know it.
Fifth, ___________________________________________
According to the White House…
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/12/clemency-recipient-list-7/
…one of those quietly pardoned last week was Zachary Scruggs, convicted of Misprision of Felony in 2007 or 2008. Zachary is the son of disgraced Mississippi lawyer Richard Scruggs, the target of a multi-year federal investigation into judicial misconduct which came to be known as the Mississippi Mafia case. In the course of that investigation, James Biden showed up in at least one conversation recorded on a wiretap by the FBI. Richard Scruggs had paid Biden’s firm $100K.
A google search today returns ZERO recent stories on Zachary Scruggs. There is a lengthy Politico article from a couple weeks ago that explores Richard Scruggs (and others) involvement in the Mississippi Mafia and its connections to James Biden. But, the media seems to be entirely radio silent on the bizarre pardon of Zachary Scruggs.
https://nypost.com/2023/12/17/news/fbi-bribery-inquiry-taped-james-biden-who-took-money-from-attorney-pursuing-tobacco-bill-in-congress/
if there was any vestige of patriotism or character in his soul he would pardon trump and tap / encourage the appropriate governors to do the same–not just for trump’s sake but for the good of the country
alas, it takes a man of courage, of character, of honor to admit they were wrong and to make amends
Joe Biden is no man of honor, courage or character.
He’s not a man. He’s a senile dementia patient being used as an avatar.
Trumps federal charges have all petered out already. He doesn’t need a federal pardon.
No. Pardoning Trump would put Trump in his debt, a facet I hope he never figures out. I’d rather Trump owes nobody in this administration a damn thing.
If the crimes relate to money, sex and drugs…the Dems will pardon. Only Hunter gets off the hook for “gun crime”.
This pardoning spree has the feel of diabolical mockery of Justice.
It’s another Biden in-your-face humiliate the rubes move.
It may be worth challenging the constitutionality of pardoning a person for crimes for which he has not yet been accused nor charged. Ford gave Nixon such a pardon, and it was questioned by press and politicians but never adjudicated. If Hunter was the bagman to accept bribes for these, he should have stated it in the pardon.
Who would have standing for such a challenge? I ask seriously, perhaps one of our resident lawyers would have the answer.
It seems to me that the only person who could possibly have standing would be Trump, should he wish to prosecute a pardoned person.
The president’s authority to pardon is unlimited and comes directly from the Constitution. There is no authority capable of writing laws or rules that could possibly rein in that authority (they’d be violations of the separation of powers). (Many of the arguments for Trump’s authority to declassify documents are applicable here as well.)
The authors of the Constitution created our government for a moral and educated public, with the presumption they’d elect moral and patriotic people to office. They also presumed office holders would have an interest in protecting their legacies, an interest Joe doesn’t seem to care about. He’s intentionally burning bridges.
It is not unlimited.
“The President … shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of impeachment.”
He needs to tell us what their offenses are.
That begs the question of whether uncharged offenses can be included in a pardon, which I submit falls within SCOTUS’s authority to construe the language of the Cobstitution. Standing to litigate that question probably requires that someone receiving such a pardon be prosecuted federally. I personally believe for policy reasons that a pardon should be limited to actual charges, but the Supremes will have to look to what a pardon meant historically in common law when the Constitution was adopted.
There is no possibility at all of challenging pardons for crimes not yet accused or charged. George Washington granted such pardons, to no objection. Presidents have continued to do so throughout the life of the republic.
Pardon of criminals while everyone is celebrating the murder of a CEO.
I’m done…stop the world and let me off.
We have neither a president or vice president at this moment or until January 20th.
Joe should be in the produce section at the supermarket.
Kamala has crawled inside of a wine bottle.
Trump is the de facto president but won’t have any authority until Inauguration Day.
Pray for us – we need it.
Joe should be the produce in the produce section
Use RICO to permanently abolish the democrat crime cabal
Crimes against humanity qualify
The current Biden crime spree highlights the need
https://triblive.com/local/biden-commutes-sentence-for-ex-mckees-rocks-drug-rehab-founder-who-ran-heroin-ring/
Maybe not on the same level as some of these, but selling drugs to rehab patients while running the rehab center is a special type of evil.
Almost as bad as a committed gun-control advocate in the California Senate running machine guns for the Triad.
Nevin Shapiro should also be on this list.
Of course they’re ignoring them. They ignored the fact that Joe has always been a vile creeper. They ignored the fact that Joe was obviously in an advanced stage of dementia before the 2020 election. They ignored the fact that the 2020 election was grossly rigged, as gloated-over in the Time Magazine article in 2021. They ignored the fact that Joe is a grifting traitor who was taking money from our top geopolitical adversary. They ignored the fact that Joe is a creepy child groper. The list goes on and on and on.
They’re fellow travelers, plain and simple. They will overtly lie, and they will like by omission. Fu*k them all.
Of the pardoned, who is better and who is worse can always be dismissed as a biased value judgment.
Instead, here’s the database query that will illuminate everything:
“Of the pardoned, how many were Republicans?”
The Chinese nationals don’t count.
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