Biden commutes sentences for nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders convicted on crack cocaine-related charges
President Joe Biden is granting clemency for nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders in the final days in office, placing a focus on sentencing disparities for crack cocaine-related crimes.
Biden commutes sentences of thousands of crack cocaine offenders
Outgoing president’s announcement comes just weeks after he pardoned son Hunter following drug addiction battle
Biden commutes 2,500 crack sentences — as pot offenders wait to see if he will fulfill promise to free them
President Biden on Friday commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 convicted criminals — setting a new record for most individual pardons and commutations ever issued by a president.
Biden sets record for most pardons and commutations with new round of clemency for nonviolent drug offenders
The president is commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses in the biggest single-day act of clemency.
'Incomplete' Hunter Biden report, protection of 'Biden Crime Family' shredded by Comer, IRS whistleblowers
House Oversight Chairman James Comer and a pair of IRS whistleblowers slammed Special Counsel David Weiss' final report on first son Hunter Biden as incomplete.
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Biden shortens sentences for nearly 2,500 people, setting a record
Democratic lawmakers had urged President Biden to use his clemency powers to address disparities in sentences for offenses involving crack cocaine.
President Joe Biden Grants Clemency For Thousands Of Non-Violent Drug Offenders
With Friday's (January 17) move, Biden has granted more individual pardons and commutations than any previous president.
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Prosecutor who investigated Hunter Biden defends probes, denounces president's remarks in new report
“But he did it anyway, because he wanted to own a gun, even though he was actively using crack cocaine,” Weiss wrote.Hunter Biden subsequently entered a surprise guilty plea last September to ...
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Biden commutes sentences for nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders convicted on crack cocaine-related charges
The clemency decision will benefit federal prisoners convicted of crack cocaine-related crimes ... and unconditional pardon for his son Hunter Biden, who was convicted last year of 12 tax and ...
Prosecutor who investigated Hunter Biden defends probes, denounces president’s remarks in new report
The special counsel who brought criminal charges against Hunter Biden says the probes were “the culmination of thorough, impartial investigations, not partisan politics.”
Family outraged after man convicted in Connecticut killings gets clemency from Biden in drug case
A Connecticut man who was convicted in one of the state’s most notorious murder cases was one of the nearly 2,500 people whose federal drug-related prison sentences were commuted by former President Joe Biden in his last days in office.
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Biden pardons public officials hours before vacating office
WASHINGTON, D.C. President Joe Biden, who left office on Monday, spent his last hours pardoning family members, White House officials including Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, and members and st