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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2000(202) 514-2007

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NEWS ADVISORY

PRESIDENT GRANTS CLEMENCY TO 62

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Clinton today granted pardons to 59 people and three commutations of sentence. Attached is a list of those persons.

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Commutations of Sentence
Name	District	SentencedOffense
Dorothy Marie Gaines	S.D. Alabama	March 1995 Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and possession with intent to distribute, cocaine base; 21 USC 841 and 846.
Bobby Franklin Griffin	W.D. Missouri	December 1997 Bribery, mail fraud, 18 USC 666(a)(1)(B) and 1341.
Kemba Niambi Smith	E.D. Virginia	April 1995 Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base, conspiracy to engage in money laundering, making false statements to an agent of the United States; 21 USC 846, 18 USC 2, 371, and 1956, and 18 USC 1001.
Pardons
Jimmy Lee Allen	Everton, Arkansas W.D.	September 1990 False statements to agency of United States; 15 USC 714m(a).
Virgil Lamoin Baker	Swansea, Illinois E.D. Illinois (Now Southern District Illinois)	July 1959 Violation of the Military Training and Service Act, 50, USC Appendix 462
Garran Dee Barker	North Little Rock, Ark. E. D. Arkansas	December 1986 Conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, 18 USC 371.
Nancy M. Baxter	Vansant, Virginia W.D. Virginia	Virginia May 1990 Tax evasion and filing a false amended tax return, 26 USC 7201 and 7206(1).
Charles N. Besser	Chicago, Illinois N.D. Illinois	October 1985 Mail fraud; 18 USC 1341.
Harlan Richard Billings	Stonington, Maine Maine	August 1985 Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute in excess of 1,000 pounds of marijuana; 21 USC 846.
Edward Raymond Birdseye	Chico, Calif. E.D. Calif.	May 1992Unlawful use of a communication facility; 21 USC 843(b).
Roscoe Crosby Blunt, Jr.	Shrewsbury, Mass.U.S. Army court-martial convened at Rhinehausen, Germany	April 1945 Fraternization, Article of War 96.
Charles Edward Boggs	Paragould, Arkansas E. D. Arkansas	October 1977 Receiving a stolen motor vehicle which was part of interstate commerce, 18 USC 2313.
Terry Coy Bonner	Hambleton, W. Virginia N.D. West Virginia	July 1986 Possession of an illegally made destructive device; 26 USC 5861.
Alfred Whitney Brown, III	Covington, Louisiana E.D. Louisiana	June 1992 Illegal sale of wildlife by allowing hunting over a baited field, 16 USC 3372(a)(1), 3372(c)(1)(A), and 3373(d)(1)(B), and 18 USC 2.
William Robert Carpenter	McMillan, Michigan N. D.California	November 1991 Possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, 21 USC 841(a)(1).
Philip Vito DiGirolamo	Prunedale, Calif. N.D. Calif.	June 1984 Conspiracy to import marijuana; 21 USC 963; wilfully subscribing to a false tax return, 26 USC 7206(1).
Peter Welling Dionis	Ft. Lauderdale, Florida N.D. New York	May 1976 Conspiracy, importation, and possession with intent to distribute hashish; 21 USC 841(a)(1), 952(a), and 963, and 18 USC 2.
Darrin Dean Dorn	S.D. Iowa	July 1981 Conspiracy to damage property by means and use of an explosive, 18 USC 371.
Peter Bailey Gimbel	New York, N.Y. S.D. New York	February 1991 Conspiracy to distribute cocaine, 21 USC 846.
Philip Joseph Grandmaison	Nashua, New Hampshire New Hampshire	March 1996 Mail fraud, 18 USC 1341 and 1346.
Joe Robert Grist	Abilene, Texas W.D. Texas	June 1990 Misapplication of funds by a bank employee; 18 USC 656.
LeRoy Kenneth Hartung, Jr.	Las Vegas, Nevada Nevada	September1986 Interception of wire communications, 18 USC 2511(1)(a).
Joseph Riddick Hendrick III	Charlotte, N. Carolina W.D. N.C.	December 1997 Mail fraud, 18 USC 1341.
Judd Blair Hirschberg	Chicago, Illinois N.D. Illinois	July 1991 Mail fraud, 18 USC 1341.
Robert Quinn Houston	Brandon, Mississippi S.D. Mississippi	April 1986 Conspiracy to obstruct commerce by extortion; 18 USC 1951(a).
Martin Joseph Hughes	Rocky River, Ohio N.D. Ohio	November 1987 Aiding and abetting the falsification of union records, aiding and assisting in the submission of false tax records, making false statements to a government agency; 29 USC 439(c), and 18 USC 2, 26 USC 7204, 18 USC 1001.
Jere Wayne Johnson	Enid, Okla. W.D. Okla.	September 1982Conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and Garfield County, Oklahoma, while serving as a county commissioner, 18 USC 371.
Michael Thomas Johnson	d'Iberville, Mississippi S.D. Miss.	January 1987 Filing false tax returns, 26 USC 7206(1).
Daniel Wayne Keys	Benton, Arkansas S.D. Texas	September 1977Possession with intent to distribute marijuana, 21 USC 841(a)(1).
Larry Ray Killough	Searcy, Arkansas E.D. Arkansas	June 1985 Unlawful distribution of prescription drugs, 21 USC 841(a)(1).
Jack Kligman	Philadelphia, Penn. E. D.Pennsylvania	August 1985 Conspiracy and mail fraud, 18 USC 371 and 1341.
Hector Osvaldo Labagnara	Beach Haven, N.J. New Jersey	Conspiracy to transport stolen motor vehicles in interstate commerce, to receive and sell stolen motor vehicles, to transport false vehicle registrations in interstate commerce, and to receive and dispose of false vehicle registrations; receipt and sale of stolen motor vehicles; 18 USC 371 and 2313.
Moses Jubilee Lestz (formerly known as Michael Eugene Lestz)	Elkville, Illinois W.D. Arkansas	1982 Forgery of U.S. savings bond; 18 USC 495.
Leon Lee Liebscher	El Reno, Oklahoma W.D. Oklahoma	August 1982 Conspiracy to defraud the U.S.(tax evasion), 18 USC 371.
Pierluigi Mancini	Alpharetta, Georgia N.D. Georgia	October 1985Possession of cocaine with intent to distribute; 21 USC 841(a).
John Ross McCown, Jr.	Lincoln, Neb. Nebraska	January 1992 Structuring of transactions to evade reporting requirements, 31 USC 5324(3) and 5322(b), and 18 USC 2.
Edward Francis McKenna, III	Gulfport, Mississippi S.D. Miss.	January 1993 Possession with intent to distribute anabolic steroids, 21 USC 333(e)(1).
Andrew Kirkpatrick Mearns III	Dallastown, Penn. Delaware	March 1978 Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine; 21 USC 846 and 841.
Ralph Eugene Meczyk	N.D. Illinois	September 1987 Filing false partnership and individual federal income tax returns.
Philip James Morin	Omaha, Neb. W.D. Texas	June 1984 Distribution of cocaine; 21 USC 841(a)(1).
Thomas Edward Nash, Jr.	Asheville, N.C. W.D. N.C.	August 1988Conspiracy to restrain interstate trade and commerce; 15 USC 1.
Roger Lee Nelson	Omaha, Neb. Nebraska	August 1981 Aiding and abetting mail fraud; 18 USC 1341 and 2.
Jose Rene Pineda-Martinez	Houston, Tex. S.D. Texas .	1. April 1983 2. December 1983 3. May 1984 1. Entering U.S. without inspection (misdemeanor); 8 USC 1325. 2. Transporting an illegal alien within the U.S.; 8 USC1324(a)(2). 3. Transporting an illegal alien within the U.S.; 8 USC1324(a)(2).
John Russell Raup	Cohoes, New York U.S. Air Force general court-martial convened at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, New York	August 1984 Larceny of government property and wrongful possession of marijuana, U.C.M.J. Articles 121 and 134.
James William Rogers	Moncks Corner, S.C. South Carolina	January 1982 Conspiracy to commit racketeering, 18 USC 1962(d).
George Wisham Roper, II	Norfolk, Virginia E. D. Virginia	Virginia May 1974Conspiracy to bribe public officials and to defraud the U.S. government; 18 USC 371.
Daniel Rostenkowski	D. of Columbia	April 1996 Mail fraud (two counts); 18 USC 1341 and 1346.
Dean Raymond Rush	Grapevine, Texas W.D. Texas	April 1993 False statements on a loan application; 18 USC 1014.
Archibald R. Schaffer, III	D. of Columbia	Sept. 2000 Violation of Meat Inspection Act; 21 USC 622.
Anthony Andrew Schmidt	Hays, Kansas Kansas	June 1985 Conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine; 21 USC 841(a)(1) and 846.
Stanley Sirote	Huntington, New York E.D. New York	Sept. 1974 Bribery of a public official; 18 USC 201(f).
Dent Elwood Snider, Jr.	Santa Cruz, Calif. Colorado	March 1981 Use of a telephone to facilitate the distribution of cocaine; 21 USC 843(b).
James Lawrence Swisher	Greensboro, N.C. M.D.N.C.	July 1977 Obstruction of a criminal investigation; 18 USC 1510.
Larry Kalvy Thompson	Lubbock, Tex. N.D. Texas	May 1988 Aiding and abetting misapplication of bank funds, misprision of a felony; 18 USC 2, 4, 657.
Stephanie Marie Vetter	Riverdale, New York New Mexico	July 1979 Possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine; 21 USC 841(a)(1).
Danny Ray Walker	Booneville, Arkansas E.D. Arkansas	March 1975 Interstate transportation of stolen property; 18 USC 2316.
Thomas Andrew Warren	Tallahassee, Florida S.D. Florida	December  1975 Conspiracy to import marijuana; 21 USC 963.
Michael Lynn Weatherford	Laurens, S.C. E.D. North Carolina	January 1986 Aiding and abetting interstate travel in aid of racketeering; 18 USC 1952(a) and 2.
Jack Weinstein	Las Vegas, Nevada Nevada July 1975	Conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen property; 18 USC 371, 2314 and 2.
Robert Owen Wilson	Mooresville, N.C. M.D. Tennessee	July 1980 Mail fraud, 18 USC 1341.
Charles Elvin Witherspoon	Lufkin, Texas E.D. Texas	Embezzlement of bank funds; 18 USC 656.
Charles Z. Yonce, Jr.	Edgefield, S. C. South Carolina	April 1988 Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and aiding and abetting therein; 21 USC 841(a)(1), 846, and 841(b)(1)(B), and 18 USC 2.

 

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This story has great potential....as seen below:

One less religious hypocrite in this world.  However, I do share his views about homosexuals.

It is easy- it is called gun control! Here is the reasoning behind it. The first thing that any student attending college or a university should keep in mind is that they should be properly prepared and properly equipped to protect themselves.  Take the SWAT team below.  These guys would have never shown up in a volatile situation without proper gear or proper equipment.  Can you imagine what would happen to them if they showed up without this equipment and looking like unarmed students? 

Likewise, a student needs to be prepared just like the guys above.  I mean, if you don't properly equip yourself, you are just a sitting duck for any person on a mission to committ murder.  In fact, it would be ideal for students to have the same kind of  protection as America's elected officials. You don't see them as sitting ducks while they are wasting their time at the State Capitol. They have so much security there that no "Cho" would be able to pull off what "Cho" pulled off at the University of Virginia Tech.    So below is a picture that shows how students should look and be equipped while attending class so they don't end up being sitting ducks to a crazed murderer.  And don't forget this:  As long as the news media is bent on making celebrities out of cold blooded murderers, there will be more school shootings in the future. 

Now, who would want to mess around with students equipped to defend themselves?  This is the way to properly protect yourself while attending a school.  This is also called "gun control."  In other words, your gun is going to control that goof ball coming after you with his.  Also, instead of schools having vending machines stocked with M&M's and potato chips, they should stock these vending machines with mace pepper spray and ammunition.

There is a question to why he shot his first two victims.  The simple answer is probably that he needed a practice run on his ability to kill somebody so that when he made his big college achievement two hours later, he would have the poise necessary in order for him to nonchalantly kill innocent defenseless people.  He had probably experienced a run in with one of them.

Well, it has happened again and all throughout America, the bozo's seen on CNN and the rest of the news stations are asking that same most important question "Why?"  When will 95% of the Americans whom create this situation in the first place understand that it is "their" actions that  creates the reaction in troubled people like Cho Seung-Hui.  He killed those whom he probably experienced ridicule and arrogant behavior from.  People whom he viewed as privileged Americans.  I mean, let's face the reality of the occasional incidence of violence at school campuses in this country.  The young man probably decided that before he committed suicide, he was going to take as many arrogant students whom he probably had experience a lot of demeaning comments from-does Columbine ring a bell? He didn't kill his room mates in which he could have.  He probably didn't experience from them what he had experienced from his fellow classmates.  So, until arrogant, rude people, attending our schools and colleges, get the message that when they combine their rudeness, arrogance, and demeaning behavior with an outcast, they are inviting a violent outcome...

I lived with three students in a dormitory/apartment setting in a University area many years ago.  One of the students was from the country of India.   After he realized I was a polite and nice guy, he confided in me and told me that most of the Americans he met were rude and arrogant.  How true it is!  In fact, click here to meet a typical arrogant and rude American living in California...This guy has that typical "I am something special" attitude.

When and where will the next massacre occur?  That is the question! As long as the news media wants to give these individuals what they are looking for, this low intelligent criminal behavior will continue.  However, it is still sad that so many young people had to face this senseless act of cruelty. 

Well at least for a few days the people all around this country will act mature and seem nice and respectable to their fellow human beings.  However, it won't take too long for Americans to be back to practicing their noon time gossiping, their "better than thou" rudeness, their "I am so good" arrogance, and their "much practiced" cliquish backstabbing behavior.  Americans just need to know that they may push these personality defects onto the  wrong person and pay a hefty price for it.  This goof ball got what he was looking for and that was non stop news coverage from blood thirsty news stations trying to convince their viewers that they should know every detail about what the survivors witnessed while their classroom students were being shot dead.  How pathetic!!!  

Wow, imagine what Cho Seung-Hui would have done had Raley's cheated and destroyed his dad...

Bigger yet, imagine what would have happened had this disturbed young man been a member of UFCW 588 and realized that this union was corrupt to the core...

Click here and read a copy of a postcard (front and back) sent to UFCW 8 (588) on April 16, 2007. 

Can you imagine how the families of the victims must feel witnessing the news media giving this guy the amount of publicity in which he murdered 32 people for?

The news media (NBC) wants everybody to know all about this goofballs writings, ramblings, and death videos after slaughtering nearly three dozen people. 

Click here to read a postcard letter (front and back) sent to NBC recently. 

Wasn't it great to have the news media retrace this killers footsteps the morning he massacre a few dozen innocent people?  They wanted you to know every detail of this murderous event. 

 Click here to view my steps on the morning I mailed NBC my postcard letter on April 11, 2007. It may seem absurd, but so does the fact that our news organizations want us to know the path insanity took to kill nearly three dozen innocent people.

They never responded.  So, it turns out that if you want the news media to redress your issues, you need to kill a few dozen innocent people.  What a bunch of arrogant deceitful assholes in the news media who help motivate disturbed individuals to act out so callously knowing they will receive the attention that they long for.  But then again, the news media longs for disturbed individuals who will help assist them in achieving high ratings.  Depending on the amount of blood involved determines their interest in pursuing any particular story.

This guy was really disturbed.  He wanted to paint himself as some kind of martyr and Christ like figure.  Wow, he was some deranged person.   He wanted to pollute, attack, and offend every great institution in America.