President Joe Biden announced Thursday he is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people who were placed on home confinement during the COVID pandemic and pardoning 39 others convicted of ...

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Mr. Toobin is a contributing Opinion writer and the author of “The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy.” In recent years, Republican members of the House of Representatives have had a crime ...

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee wrote in a letter to Donald Trump that the convicted child sex offender plans to file a commutation application for the Trump administration’s review, ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the sentence of former Long Island Rep. George Santos, a Republican ousted from office and sentenced to 7 years in prison for fraud and identity ...

Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who faces more than seven years behind bars after pleading guilty to wire fraud and identity theft, revealed this week that he will be seeking clemency from ...

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FLINT, MI -- Nearly 40 years after Linda J. Nunn was convicted of fatally shooting a federal bank examiner during a sex-for-money scheme in Flint, she’s asking Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to commute her ...

David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors. By Kenneth P. Vogel Kenneth P. Vogel, who covers ...