Obama Grants First Pardons for Drug Crimes, ‘Coin Mutilation’
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Barack Obama granted the first nine pardons of his presidency, including to four drug offenders, another convicted of illegal possession of government property and a Pennsylvania man found guilty of “mutilation of coins.”
Obama was “moved by the strength of the applicants’ post- conviction efforts at atonement, as well as their superior citizenship and individual achievements in the years since their convictions,” said White House spokesman Reid Cherlin in a statement.