Yesterday, President Biden granted clemency to some 1,500 individuals and pardoned about 40 others. While clemency is different than a pardon -- the conviction still stands and it only reduces the criminal sentence -- there is at least one that's got people very unhappy:
The New York Post also reported on the story.
The corrupt former Pennsylvania judge convicted of funneling juveniles to for-profit detention facilities in exchange for $2.1 million in kickbacks had his lengthy prison sentence commuted Thursday by President Biden.
Former Luzerne County Judge Michael Conahan, the jurist at the center of the so-called 'Kids-for-Cash' scandal, was among 1,499 commutations the 82-year-old lame-duck president granted in the largest presidential act of clemency on a single day in modern history, according to the White House.
The mother of a victim of Conahan’s disturbing crime fumed upon hearing of his commutation.
'I am shocked and I am hurt,' Sandy Fonzo, whose son committed suicide after he was locked up as part of the scheme orchestrated by Conahan and former judge Mark Ciavarella, said in a statement.
That's absolutely horrifying.
A real peach.
Insane.
Not shocked.
Here's a video of what he did:
That poor mother.
And Joe Biden reduced his sentence.
No he was not.
Very messed up.
Probably.