Pardon Lasts Just a Day for Developer in Fraud Case »
Posted By bruhaha 11 months, 1 week ago in Political NewsWASHINGTON — President Bush changed his mind on Christmas Eve, pulling back a pardon he had extended a day earlier to a Brooklyn developer at the center of a Long Island real estate fraud case and adding a bizarre twist to the episode.
The developer, Isaac R. Toussie, who was listed Tuesday as one of the beneficiaries of the president’s constitutional power to wipe away a criminal record, is not being pardoned “based on information that has subsequently come to light,” the White House said late Wednesday afternoon.
The terse White House statement did not elaborate, but officials familiar with the case said that presidential aides — and perhaps President Bush himself — were concerned about appearances, because Mr. Toussie’s father, Robert, donated $28,500 to the Republican National Committee last April, for what apparently was his first political contribution. He also donated $2,300 to the presidential campaign of Senator John McCain.
Regardless of how Mr. Toussie is perceived by Republicans in Washington, the name of Isaac Toussie is detested by many working-class people in the New York metropolitan area. In 2001, several hundred of them sued in Federal District Court, accusing Mr. Toussie and his father of masterminding a scheme in which inexperienced or first-time buyers were promised affordable and comfortable suburban houses but instead were sold shoddily built homes in poor neighborhoods and saddled by mortgage payments that shot up surprisingly.
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bruhaha11 months, 1 week ago
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I thought the same thing when I read it....barely even a slap on the wrist. More on it in this article in the LA Times.
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CaptainLucid11 months, 1 week ago
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Filthy W supporter couldn't last 24 hours. It was quid pro quo but some reporter exposed it so the white house for some reason tried to preserve the illusion of decency for W's so called "legacy" that his people are selling but no one is buying. Oops, got caught selling pardons for money. Throw a few assistants under the bus and then start accepting bribes again but make sure to tell the idiot staff to keep it off paper and don't talk to reporters. But you all haven't seen anything yet. Wait til Jan 19 when the New York Times runs out of paper and ink trying to print the last days pardons. I think if you get a W pardon you should be given 20 seconds on the news to kiss his ass and then laugh at the victims because you really did get away with it. Crime does pay and it better because W pardons don't come free.
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CaptainLucid11 months, 1 week ago
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Sorry for the double post but this just popped into my mind. Remember those mastercard ads where they would flash stuff like a father and son at a baseball game and they say "tickets 45 dollars" "Souvaneer 20 dollars" and at the end they equate bonding as priceless but for everything else there is mastercard. W could make some serious money if he said "contibution to by legal fund, 10,000 dollars" Contribution to the republican party 50,000 dollars. Getting a presidential pardon "priceless".
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