# Clinton pardons 100 **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 20, 2001, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-pardons-100/51032 "2001-01-20T17:03:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![justwannano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@justwannano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justwannano)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-pardons-100/51032/1 "2001-01-20T17:03:17Z")
Who were they and what were their crimes? ---
**Author:** ![allanadale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@allanadale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/allanadale)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-pardons-100/51032/2 "2001-01-20T17:41:47Z")
If you haven’t seen it yet, here you go: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/elections/pardons012001.htm](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/elections/pardons012001.htm) Doesn’t give the crimes, but answers the Who part… ---
**Author:** ![xicanorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a88e57/32.png) [@xicanorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xicanorex)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-pardons-100/51032/3 "2001-01-21T07:33:45Z")
It doesn’t have all the 100, but CNN has a good article on some of the characters he pardoned and their specific crimes. [http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/stories/01/20/clinton.pardon.02/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/stories/01/20/clinton.pardon.02/index.html) XicanoreX ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-pardons-100/51032/4 "2001-01-22T00:19:12Z")
Patty Hearst. It’s about time. ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-pardons-100/51032/5 "2001-01-22T00:36:44Z")
I can’t believe he didn’t pardon Peltier. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-pardons-100/51032/6 "2001-01-22T02:30:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by absoul \* > \*\*I can’t believe he didn’t pardon Peltier. Wow. \*\* I’m not very surprised. If he commuted Peltier’s sentence, nobody will remember it except FBI agents and Republicans who want to paint the Democrats as soft on crime. By leaving Peltier in prison, he lets Bush inherit a cause celebre’; Democrats will besiege him with clemency petitions, and when Bush refuses them, that’s ammo to paint Bush as a nasty racist so-and-so. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-pardons-100/51032/7 "2001-01-22T09:22:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Danimal \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by absoul \* > > \*\*I can’t believe he didn’t pardon Peltier. Wow. \*\* > > I’m not very surprised. If he commuted Peltier’s sentence, nobody will remember it except FBI agents and Republicans who want to paint the Democrats as soft on crime. > > By leaving Peltier in prison, he lets Bush inherit a cause celebre’; Democrats will besiege him with clemency petitions, and when Bush refuses them, that’s ammo to paint Bush as a nasty racist so-and-so. \*\* So all the earthies and hippies and veggies with the “Free Leonard!” stickers don’t remember him? Millions remember him, whether they agree with the jailing or not. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-pardons-100/51032/8 "2001-01-22T14:22:55Z")
Here’s one of the [questionable pardons](http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/rich_pardon010121.html). ---
**Author:** ![galen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@galen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-pardons-100/51032/9 "2001-01-22T14:34:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Danimal \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by absoul \* > > \*\*I can’t believe he didn’t pardon Peltier. Wow. \*\* > > I’m not very surprised. If he commuted Peltier’s sentence, nobody will remember it except FBI agents and Republicans who want to paint the Democrats as soft on crime. > > By leaving Peltier in prison, he lets Bush inherit a cause celebre’; Democrats will besiege him with clemency petitions, and when Bush refuses them, that’s ammo to paint Bush as a nasty racist so-and-so. \*\* They portray the Demos as soft on crime anyway. Besides, Peltier was framed and I don’t think they would like a full discussion of the case in the press. ---
**Author:** ![egkelly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/db5fbb/32.png) [@egkelly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/egkelly)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-pardons-100/51032/10 "2001-01-22T15:23:18Z")
Somebody told me that Clinton also pardoned three NY area rabbis, who ran a phoney school, bilking the fedral govt. out of several million dollars. I saw Rudi Giuliani was visibly upset about the Marc Rich pardon-he was the lead prosecutor in the case. Not only did Rich stiff the US treasury, he was also trading with Iran, in direct contravention of US law. We will see hoe Clinton benefits from this one down the road. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-pardons-100/51032/11 "2001-01-22T18:07:43Z")
> [@](#): > > he was also trading with Iran, in direct contravention of US law. Heck. We didn’t even _prosecute_ Reagan for that. ---
**Author:** ![TwoBuyFour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/76d3ee/32.png) [@TwoBuyFour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoBuyFour)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-pardons-100/51032/12 "2001-01-22T18:30:56Z")
This my sound naive, but didn’t Clinton make references to pardoning Peltier when he ran for Pres and re-election? (Please forgo the obligatory Politicians-Don’t-Keep-Campaign-Promises line. I’m familiar with it.) ---
**Author:** ![jcgmoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@jcgmoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jcgmoi)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-pardons-100/51032/13 "2001-01-22T19:21:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by egkelly \* > **Somebody told me that Clinton also pardoned three NY area rabbis, who ran a phoney school, bilking the fedral govt. out of several million dollars.** Not rabbis but Hasidic Jews. Go [here](http://www.newsday.com/ap/text/washington/ap846.htm) and scan for Stern, Goldstein and Elbaum. They weren’t pardonned but had their sentences commuted. The site also has info about some other pardonees/commutees. ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-pardons-100/51032/14 "2001-01-22T20:14:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homer \* > So all the earthies and hippies and veggies with the “Free Leonard!” stickers don’t remember him? > > Millions remember him, whether they agree with the jailing or not. > \*\* I may not have been clear. I meant that no one will remember the _commutation_ except the FBI and the Republicans. The “Free Leonard!” folks will be stirring up his cause for decades to come, but if there ever is a commutation, the Peltier supporters will be very quiet about it.