The pardon process relies on the recommendations of a special office of the White House, which takes a number of factors (not skin color) into account overtly, including things like level of remorse or financial or family factors. The process was, wisely one would have thought, depoliticized by George Bush at the beginning of his first term, so that the professional pardon lawyers' recommendations are routinely followed, plus or minus only small variations....
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Karl Bremer at the Minnesota Independent has obtained a copy of the Michele Bachmann Vennes Pardon Letter.
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President Bush has pardoned David McCall, a Plano, Texas businessman who pled guilty to bank fraud in 1996.
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