A Beijing official overseeing Hong Kong’s national security has dismissed calls from foreign groups to pardon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, questioning the need to do so as the former media boss is not “a certain president’s son”. Sun Qingye, deputy director of Beijing’s Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong, also warned on Friday against…
A Beijing official overseeing Hong Kong’s national security has dismissed calls from foreign groups to pardon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, questioning the need to do so as the former media boss is not “a certain president’s son”. Sun Qingye, deputy director of Beijing’s Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong, also warned on Friday against…
A heartbroken mother has blasted President Joe Biden for commuting the lengthy prison sentence of a corrupt former judge jailed in the notorious kids-for-cash scandal. Critics have claimed the president tainted his legacy by pardoning his son Hunter Biden after insisting he wouldn’t intervene when he was convicted on gun and tax charges. Now Sandy…
President Joe Biden has faced criticism from victims of the so-called “Kids for Cash” scandal for commuting the sentence of a Pennsylvania judge involved in the scheme. Michael Conahan was among the nearly 1,500 people placed under home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic that Biden announced Thursday would have their sentences commuted. Conahan was jailed…
William Boyland Jr., a former Brooklyn Assemblyman whose influential family has been dubbed “the Kennedys of Brownsville,” was one of 1,583 people granted clemency by the outgoing Biden Administration Thursday. Boyland Jr., was convicted on 21 bribery and corruption charges in 2014 and sentenced to a 14-year prison term. But in February 2021, he was granted…
A Maryland man was stunned and thankful to receive a pardon from President Joe Biden on a historic day. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here. Originally Published: December 12, 2024 at 6:01 PM EST Source link
Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, said Sunday that she’s “not a fan” of preemptive pardons that President Joe Biden is reportedly weighing to issue before he leaves office in January. Politico and NBC News reported last week that Biden is considering issuing preemptive pardons for prominent critics of President-elect Donald Trump, including Democratic Senator-elect…
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Senator Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, on Sunday if he had any concerns about President Joe Biden‘s decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden. Last Sunday, Biden issued a pardon for his son that not only covered his federal felony gun and tax convictions but also any other “offenses against the…
Fifty percent of U.S. adults do not approve of President Joe Biden pardoning his son Hunter, according to a new YouGov poll. On Sunday, President Biden announced the pardon saying in part, “Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the…
Elon Musk took to X to note how fact-checkers on the platform flagged Joe Biden saying that “no one is above the law,” shortly after the president pardoned his son, Hunter Biden. Biden has signed a pardon for Hunter after his son was convicted of federal gun charges and federal tax evasion charges. Biden’s old…