Biden freed a murderer back into the public likely due to his attention span

"Here's the deal, no joke"

So Biden supposedly gave mass clemency just prior to leaving office to "non-violent drug offenders." This didn't include his son, Hunter, because he already pardoned him for everything he did and may do in the future, and let's not forget that he had an illegally obtained handgun.

“Today, I am commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offenses who are serving disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy, and practice,” Biden's obvious handler said in a statement on the Friday before leaving office. “Today’s clemency action provides relief for individuals who received lengthy sentences based on discredited distinctions between crack and powder cocaine, as well as outdated sentencing enhancements for drug crimes.”

Well, it turns out at least one of those "non-violent drug offenders" Biden gave clemency to was a drug lord who was convicted of killing an eight-year-old boy and his mother, which for most people is considered violent.

Relatives of an 8-year-old boy and his mother who were murdered by a Connecticut drug gang are outraged that a man convicted in the killings was one of nearly 2,500 people whose drug-related prison sentences were commuted by former President Joe Biden in his last days in office.

Adrian Peeler served a 20-year state prison sentence for murder conspiracy in the 1999 shootings of Leroy “B.J.” Brown and his mother, Karen Clarke, in Bridgeport — killings that shocked the city and led to improvements in state witness protection. Prosecutors said Brown and his mother were assassinated to prevent the child from testifying in another murder case.

In December 2021, Peeler finished his state sentence but began serving a 15-year term in federal prison for dealing large amounts of crack cocaine.

The federal sentence would have kept him behind bars until 2033. He is now set to be released in July.

“I’m sick and tired and I’m disgusted,” Clarke’s brother, Oswald Clarke, told the Associated Press. “It’s a very shocking thing. My family is very distraught about it. It’s like we’re being traumatized all over again.”

“We’ve tried for years and years to keep this guy off the streets,” Clarke said. “And it’s a major insult in every way, and the whole state of Connecticut should be shocked, appalled and embarrassed, and the federal government regardless of who’s in power, they all should be embarrassed for the kinds of things they are doing.”

According to the Associated Press, it was not clear how Peeler came to President Biden’s attention. Biden did not publicly disclose specific reasons for commuting Peeler’s federal sentence.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat who lied about his service in Vietnam and was the state’s attorney general when Brown and his mother were killed, said “someone dropped the ball” in Peeler’s clemency. He and other political leaders in Connecticut, including Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim, criticized the commutation.

“This was a really vicious murder that changed our laws,” Blumenthal said in a statement. “It also highlights how we need to take a look at the pardon system to see how it can be improved.”

State Sen. Stephen Harding, the Republican minority leader, called the clemency “a slap in the face to all Connecticut victims of violent crimes and their families.”

The U.S. attorney’s office in Connecticut, which prosecuted Adrian Peeler’s drug-related case, stated that it was not consulted or notified about his clemency. 

I wouldn't be surprised to find that Biden freed more 'non-violent" killers.

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WV Dems are really pissed at Biden's pardon choices: 'what we would expect from Trump'

Look, a dead bird

West Virginia Democrats blasted so called President Biden's clemency recipient choices and said they would expect President-elect Trump to do such actions, because everything evil in the world is due to Orange Man Bad. 

WV Democrats tend to forget that Trump already was president and didn't do the evil thing they now accuse him of planning to do, but at least they are beginning to see that the Vegetable in Chief has made a very poor move which should hurt his Party in the future.

In a statement released late on Monday, local party leaders said they praised Biden for guiding the U.S. "through significant economic challenges" but criticized the commutations given to people convicted of public corruption. Interestingly enough, the criticism is correct about the commutations, but to say that Biden led the nation "through significant economic challenges" is only partly correct. Yes, he was the leader during economic challenges, but only made the economy worse.

Inflation rates spiked to a 40-year high which significantly increased the cost of living for the average American. Consumer sentiment has been negative or at best, skeptical due to ongoing high costs for essentials such as food and fuel. And the national debt has been blown out of the water, which could create long-term economic risks and higher borrowing costs along with fiscal instability.

Meanwhile, the WV Democrats had more to say. 

"Public corruption is a betrayal of trust. When officials abuse the power of their office for personal gain, they not only harm the communities they are supposed to serve, but they also erode faith in our government institutions," wrote Chairman Mike Pushkin, a state lawmaker from Kanawha County.

"Even more troubling, these kinds of pardons are exactly what we would expect from President-elect Donald Trump, not President Biden," he couldn't stop himself from adding so as to avoid stink-eye from his peers.

Pushkin and other Democrats were especially upset about the barely sentient POTUS's decision to pardon Michael Conahan, the disgraced Pennsylvania judge at the center of the "kids-for-cash" scandal. He was found guilty of taking bribes to send young kids to for-profit prisons.

Delegate Hollis Lewis, (D-Charleston) also had a problem with Biden's choice to grant clemency to Conahan, according to Fox News Digital.

"The one that got me upset was the judge who was involved in the cash-for-kids case," he said.

"Any time that you have individuals who prey on our most vulnerable population, which are children and the elderly, that's very problematic."

Lewis pointed out that presidents from both parties have occasionally made questionable decisions on clemency, noting that a pardon can be a useful tool if used correctly.

"I don't think anybody needs to walk around with a scarlet letter of a felony for the whole lot, depending on the particular crime that they committed; if that pardon is going to allow them to move on with their lives," he said.

"But specifically when it's crimes involving the elderly… and children or crimes with patterns of violence where the evidence is clear and there's no reasonable doubt, then maybe we ought to think twice before we exonerate those individuals."

In their statement, the West Virginia Democratic Party (WVDP) also attacked Biden for pardoning Rita Crundwell, the former comptroller of Dixon, Illinois, who was convicted for embezzling $54 million, which was the largest municipal fraud case in the U.S.

They also brought up the case of Jimmy Dimora, a former Cleveland county commissioner caught in a pay-to-play scheme.

West Virginia has been in the spotlight before during times when presidents grant pardons, like when former President Bill Clinton pardoned fugitive financier Marc Rich, a decision that was heavily criticized.

Rich was accused of tax evasion and dodging sanctions against Iran and apartheid South Africa.

However, Rich also owned part of an aluminum plant on the Ohio River accused of illegally locking out 1,500 workers and hiring replacements during labor disputes.

Members of the West Virginia union were said to have protested in front of Rich's office in Switzerland.

Clinton's pardons of Rich and his business partner Pincus Green led to a federal investigation, initially handled by New York prosecutor Mary Jo White.

After White's term ended in 2002, she was succeeded by a young prosecutor whose name would come up again in another Clinton scandal years later: James Comey.

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Biden's clemency for convicted fraudsters pissing people off: "Slap in the face"

Alleged President Joe Biden made history last week by being the first president to give clemency to over 1,500 prisoners who he never met nor knew anything about their crimes. But at least he was the first, while Kamala never made it to first elected vice president or president.

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However, the move was met with fierce backlash from critics pointing out various names on the clemency list included individuals who cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars through their fraudulent actions.

Among those included in what the Biden White House has described as the largest single-day act of clemency by a U.S. president were Rita Crundwell and Paul M. Daugerdas. Crundwell, once the comptroller in Dixon, Illinois, was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for embezzling almost $54 million from the town, which is famous for being the childhood home of Ronald Reagan.

Also on the list was Paul M. Daugerdas, a former New York law partner, who got a 15-year sentence for his part in a massive tax fraud scheme that prosecutors called one of the biggest criminal tax fraud cases in U.S. history. Another individual, Toyosi Alatishe, was convicted for abusing his role as a caretaker for patients with severe mental and physical disabilities by fraudulently using their personal information to file tax returns.

Reacting to the clemency granted to Crundwell, Republican Illinois state Senator Andrew Chesney labeled the decision "nothing short of a slap in the face to the people of Dixon."

"Her crimes did not only affect the taxpayers of Dixon, but they also had a rippling effect across the region and state, as communities became subject to stricter, more tedious regulations," Chesney said in a statement after Crundwell’s sentence was commuted. "First, it was the pardoning of his son, and now Biden is apparently extending clemency to anyone with political connections, including corrupt government employees. It's sickening."

Illinois Republican Rep. Darin LaHood supported Chesney's comments, calling the commutation a "slap in the face" to those affected by Crundwell's crimes, adding that "while many families in Dixon were living paycheck to paycheck, [Crundwell] took advantage of their trust in government and used her access to live an unearned life of luxury."

In addition to those who defrauded public funds, many of Biden's commutations went to white-collar criminals accused of scamming their clients out of millions. One notable case was that of Michael Conahan, a former judge who handed out severe punishments to young people in return for $2.8 million in bribes in the infamous "kids for cash" scandal.

"I want to see [Conahan's] name removed because that's just… another slap in the face, another injustice, on top of all of the grief that everybody in this community has already endured," said Sandy Fonzo, whose son Edward took his own life after spending eight months in juvenile detention for underage drinking.

The administration explained that these sentence commutations were for inmates who were under home confinement during the COVID-19 crisis and had "successfully reintegrated into their families and communities." The criteria included ensuring the primary or previous offense was not violent, a sex crime, or related to terrorism; confirming a low risk of re-offending; and checking that the individual was not involved in violent or gang activities while in prison. All these individuals were on good behavior, and the decisions were not made on a case-by-case basis.

For comparison, between 2017 and 2021, former President Trump issued only 143 pardons and 93 commutations, which was just 2% of the clemency requests his administration received, according to Justice Department data.

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So Biden pardoned and gave clemency to people whose cases he never checked out

Joe Biden and Meera Sachdiva

It's one thing to 'shoot from the hip,'  but it's a totally different thing to shoot from the hip while wearing a blindfold and falling up a flight of stairs.

In one pardon granted by the alleged President, a "Massachusetts woman on Biden’s clemency list was sentenced for ‘lethal’ fentanyl trafficking conspiracy," according to the Boston Herald. This woman led a "large-scale criminal enterprise that reaped hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits and caused untold misery."

"Former Dixon Comptroller Rita Crundwell stole $53 million from the little town, a crime so notorious that a documentary was made -- highlighting that she perpetrated the largest case of municipal fraud in American history," Politico reported.

Crundwell, the Dixon, Illinois comptroller who stole the money to fund a lavish lifestyle of expensive homes, dream vacations, and some serious bling, was sentenced to 20 years. She served less than half that time.

“With my deteriorating health condition and the danger of the Covid 19 pandemic, I feel like I have been given a death sentence,” she wrote to the judge, asking to be released during the pandemic.

Perhaps most incredibly, the "Cash for Kids" POS judge, Mark Claravella, in Pennsylvania who wrongly sent dozens of minors to a for-profit prison and got kickbacks for it, was released without any examination of the facts of his case. This garbage human being should be thrown in jail for years after committing such a crime in these kids.

"The White House commuted the sentence of the judge at the center of a notorious 'kids-for-cash' scandal without considering the specifics of his case, beyond whether it fit into a broad set of criteria," reports Politico. We can assume that all of the 1500 cases of these prisoners were also examined just as thoroughly.

Perhaps one of the worst cases Biden gave clemency to was with Meera Sachdeva, a Mississippi doctor who was sentenced to 20 years in the slammer in 2012. She defrauded Medicare and was required to pay $8,200,000 to her former cancer facility where she provided cancer patients with diluted chemotherapy drugs and old needles. One such patient claimed to have gotten HIV from a needle used by her clinic.

While it seems obvious no examinations of the criminal cases were actually reviewed, the White House had the temerity to say that those who received clemency had demonstrated rehabilitation and “a strong commitment to making their communities safer.” In addition to commuting sentences for nearly 1,500 individuals on home confinement, Biden pardoned 39 people convicted of non-violent offenses.

“Together, these actions build on the President’s record of criminal justice reform to help reunite families, strengthen communities, and reintegrate individuals back into society,” the White House said in its announcement. “The President has issued more sentence commutations at this point in his presidency than any of his recent predecessors at the same point in their first terms.”

Among those receiving clemency was Daniel Fillerup, an Alabama doctor sentenced to 10 years in prison for illegally distributing fentanyl which led to a fatal overdose. The Department of Justice stated that Fillerup “directly contributed to the opioid epidemic.” Another recipient was Wendy Hechtman, who was serving 15 years for running a drug operation connected to a spike in overdose deaths in Nebraska in 2017.

Despite the controversial backgrounds of some recipients, the White House praised President Biden's clemency decisions, emphasizing his dedication to criminal justice reform. They also mentioned that more such actions are expected before Biden's term ends.

"While today’s announcement marks important progress, there is more to come. President Biden will continue to review clemency petitions and deliver criminal justice reform in a manner that advances equity and justice, promotes public safety, supports rehabilitation and reentry, and provides meaningful second chances,” the White House concluded in its announcement.

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