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    Well that’s a fucking oops by Biden. Most of the clemencies on today’s list were ~1500 nonviolent drug offenders who deserved leniency. How the fuck did Conahan manage to slip in with them?

    Behind the Bastards did a series on this guy. TL;DR the guy deserves a hell of a lot worse than life in prison.

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      Don’t call it an oops.

      Biden is not Trump. He reads things before he signs them. For whatever reason, this was intentional.

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        Don’t call it an oops.

        This was either a massive lapse of bureaucracy, or it was a massive lapse in judgement. Either way, in my opinion it is one of Biden’s biggest mistakes in his entire four years of governance.

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    So in 2011 Cohan was sentenced to 17 1/2 years for doing “Kids-for-Cash”, funneling juvenile defendants to two private, for-profit detention centers in exchange for $2.1 million in kickbacks. And now Biden pardons him…

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    Wow, I have seen a lot of interviews and media around Conahan’s conviction, and this guy is either the most stone cold child hating person I have ever met heard about, or is somehow completely insane/psychopathic and 100% oblivious to that fact, and I guess his whole family too. What a disgrace to the many, many victims he made.