The following is a list of people pardoned by Bill Clinton.<!-- Jan 2001 subset here: http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pardonchartlst.htm --> As president, Clinton used his power under the U.S. Constitution to grant pardons and clemency to 456 people, thus commuting the sentences of those already convicted of a crime, and obviating a trial for those not yet convicted. On January 20, 2001, he pardoned 140 people in the final hours of his presidency.
This list is a subset of the list of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president of the United States.
November 23, 1994
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|United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia (both)
|1961 <br /> 1962 (indicted)
|Failure to appear for physical examination, failure to appear for induction into the Armed Forces <br /> Bail jumping
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March 15, 2000
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!Name
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|Douglas Charles Borel
|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
|1991
|Odometer rollback
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|Stuart Harris Cohn
|United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
|1983
|Illegal sale of commodity options
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|David M. Cooper
|United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
|1992
|Conspiracy to defraud the government
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|Ernest Harley Cox Jr.
|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
|1991
|Conspiracy to defraud a federally insured savings and loan, misapplication of bank funds, false statements
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|John F. Cross Jr.
|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
|1995
|Embezzlement
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|Rickey Lee Cunningham
|United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
|1973
|Possession with intent to distribute marijuana
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|Richard Anthony De Labio
|United States District Court for the District of Maryland
|1977
|Mail fraud and aiding and abetting
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|John Deutch
|United States District Court for the District of Columbia
|N/A
|Offenses charged on January 19, 2001, information
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|Richard Douglas
|United States District Court for the Northern District of California
|1998
|False statements to a government agent
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|Edward Reynolds Downe Jr.
|United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
|1993
|Conspiracy to commit wire fraud and to subscribe to false income tax returns, securities fraud
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|Marvin Dean Dudley
|United States District Court for the District of Nebraska
|1992
|False statements
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|Larry Lee Duncan
|United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
|1992
|Altering an automobile odometer
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|Robert Clinton Fain
|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
|1982
|Aiding and assisting in the preparation and filing of a false corporate tax return
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|Marcos Arcenio Fernandez
|United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
|1980
|Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana
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|Alvarez Ferrouillet
|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana <br /> United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi
|1997 (both)
|Interstate transportation of stolen property; money laundering; engaging in a monetary transaction with criminally derived property; false statements to government agents <br /> Conspiracy to make false statements to a financial institution
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|William Denis Fugazy
|United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
|1997
|Perjury in a bankruptcy proceeding
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|Lloyd Reid George
|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
|1997
|Aiding and abetting mail fraud
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|Louis Goldstein
|United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|1985
|Possession of goods stolen from interstate shipment
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|Rubye Lee Gordon
|United States District Court for the Middle District Georgia
|1974
|Forgery of U.S. Treasury checks
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|Pincus Green
|United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
|N/A
|Wire fraud, mail fraud, racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, criminal forfeiture, income tax evasion, trading with Iran in violation of trade embargo (as charged in 1984 superseding indictment)
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|Robert Ivey Hamner
|United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
|1986
|Conspiracy to distribute marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute
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|Samuel Price Handley
|United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
|1963
|Conspiracy to steal government property
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|Woodie Randolph Handley
|United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
|1963
|Conspiracy to steal government property
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| rowspan="2" |Jay Houston Harmon
|1. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
|1. 1982
|1. Conspiracy to import marijuana, conspiracy to possess marijuana with intent to distribute, importation of marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute
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|2. United States District Court for the Middle District Georgia
|2. 1986
|2. Conspiracy to import cocaine
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|John J. Hemmingson
|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
|1997
|Interstate transportation of stolen property; money laundering; engaging in a monetary transaction with criminally derived property
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|David S. Herdlinger
|United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas
|1986
|Mail fraud
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|Debi Rae Huckleberry (fka Debi Rae VanDenakker)
|United States District Court for the District of Utah
|1986
|Distribution of methamphetamine
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|Donald Ray James
|United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
|1983
|Mail fraud, wire fraud, false statements to a bank to influence credit approval
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|Stanley Pruet Jobe
|United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
|1994
|Conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud
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|Ruben H. Johnson
|United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
|1989
|Theft and misapplication of bank funds by a bank officer or director (13 counts)
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|Linda Jones (fka Linda D. Medlar)
|United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
|1998
|Conspiracy to commit bank fraud, to make a false statement to a bank, to launder monetary instruments, and to engage in monetary transactions in property derived from specific unlawful activity; aiding and abetting bank fraud, false statements to a bank, laundering monetary instruments, and engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specific unlawful activity; obstruction of justice; falsifying, concealing and covering up a material fact by trick, scheme, or device; making a false statement
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|James Howard Lake
|United States District Court for the District of Columbia
|1998
|Illegal corporate campaign contributions (two counts), wire fraud
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|June Louise Lewis
|United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
|1991
|Embezzlement by a bank employee
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|Salim Bonnor Lewis
|United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
|1989
|Securities fraud, record keeping violations, margin violations
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|John Leighton Lodwick
|United States District Court for the Western District of Mo.
|1968
|Income tax evasion
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|Hildebrando Lopez
|United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
|1981
|Distribution of cocaine
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|Jose Julio Luaces Jr.
|United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
|1989
|Possession of an unregistered firearm
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|James Timothy Maness
|United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
|1985
|Conspiracy to distribute Valium
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|James Lowell Manning
|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
|1982
|Aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false corporate income tax return
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|John Robert Martin
|United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida
|1987
|Income tax evasion
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|Frank Ayala Martinez
|United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
|1989
|Conspiracy to supply false documents to the Immigration and Naturalization Service
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|Silvia Leticia Beltran Martinez
|United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
|1989
|Conspiracy to supply false documents to the Immigration and Naturalization Service
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|John Francis McCormick
|United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
|1988
|Racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, aiding and abetting Hobbs Act extortion (five counts);
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|Susan H. McDougal
|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
|1996
|Mail fraud; aiding and abetting in misapplication of Small Business Investment Corporation funds; aiding and abetting in making false entries; aiding and abetting in making false statements
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|Howard Lawrence Mechanic (aka Gary Robert Tredway)
|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri <br /> United States District Court for the District of Arizona (2000 times)
|1970
|Violating the Civil Disobedience Act of 1968 <br /> Failure to appear <br /> Making a false statement in acquiring a passport
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|Brook K. Mitchell Sr.
|United States District Court for the District of Columbia
|1999
|Conspiracy to illegally obtain USDA subsidy payments, false statements to USDA (two counts), false entries on USDA forms
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|Charles Wilfred Morgan, III
|United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas
|1984
|Conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
Former white house associate counsel William H. Kennedy III reportedly used his past links to the Clinton administration to obtain a pardon for Morgan who was his client.
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|Samuel Loring Morison
|United States District Court for the District of Maryland
|1985
|Willful transmission of defense information, unauthorized possession and retention of defense information, theft of government property
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|Richard Anthony Nazzaro
|United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
|1988
|Perjury, conspiracy to commit mail fraud
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|Charlene Ann Nosenko
|United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|1990
|Conspiracy to defraud the United States, influencing or injuring an officer or juror generally
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|Vernon Raymond Obermeier
|United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
|1989
|Conspiracy to distribute cocaine, distribution of cocaine, and using a communications facility to facilitate distribution of cocaine
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|Miguelina Ogalde
|United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico
|1981
|Conspiracy to import cocaine
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|David C. Owen
|United States District Court for the District of Kansas
|1993
|Filing a false tax return
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|Robert William Palmer
|United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
|1995
|Conspiracy to make false statements
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|Kelli Anne Perhosky (fka Kelli Anne Flynn)
|United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
|1989
|Conspiracy to commit mail fraud
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|Richard H. Pezzopane
|United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
|1988
|Conspiracy to commit racketeering, mail fraud
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|Orville Rex Phillips
|United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
|1991
|Unlawful structuring of a financial transaction
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|Vinson Stewart Poling Jr.
|United States District Court for the District of Maryland
|1980
|Making a false bank entry and aiding and abetting
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|Normal Lyle Prouse