To be fair, President Bush doesn't offer many pardons and I'd be surprised if he bested Clinton's list. However, that doesn't mean some of his choices are a smack in the face to the victims of certain lucky criminals' crimes. Isaac Toussie is one of those lucky people, officially pardoned of duping a particularly nasty predatory lender in Brooklyn.
From The NY Daily News:
Bush pardoned Isaac Toussie, 36, two days before Christmas in a gesture of mercy that outraged ex-customers who said they were duped into buying overpriced, defective homes.
"We're in the middle of a mortgage crisis [and] this is somebody who was alleged to have participated in predatory lending practices," said Peter Seidman, a lawyer who represents 460 people who say they were fleeced.
Why would George Bush think to give this scumbag a pass? How is Isaac Toussie, someone hardly connected to the White House and hardly in the news allowed to be pardoned? The guy served five months in prison with no restitution for his many victims. Who knows if he learned anything from that small sentence that equated justice for so many ruined lives. So what gives?
Federal Election Commission records show Toussie's father, Robert, made his first political donation last April - $28,500 to the Republican National Committee.
Ah, yeah, right. It all comes down to someon's sudden interest in helping finance the Republican Party.
Update:
I guess all that bad publicity had an effect on the White House, so they decided to cancel Isaac's pardon...bravo!
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