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	<title>Federal Presidential Pardon</title>
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	<description>A Study of Noteworthy Presidential Pardons</description>
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		<title>Ronald Foster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1963 at Camp Lejeune, Ronald Foster took pennies and cut them into dimes. The vending machines at the base took dimes to pay for cigarettes and other items. You could get a 30 cent pack of cigarettes for 3 cents. The secret service arrested Ronald Foster and some other fellow marines for mutilation of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.federalpresidentialpardon.com/2010/12/03/ronald-foster/</link>
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		<title>David Lane Woolsey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a very unsophisticated manner, Woolsey applied for a federal presidential pardon never expecting to get it. George W. Bush granted the pardon for no apparent reason. In my opinion Bush is an outdoors man himself and likely felt some type of affinity towards Woolsey's simple application. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.federalpresidentialpardon.com/2010/10/02/david-lane-woolsey/</link>
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		<title>Armand Hammer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1976 Hammer was convicted of illegally contributing $54,000 to Nixon's campaign. He made the convictions under a false name.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.federalpresidentialpardon.com/2010/04/25/armand-hammer/</link>
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		<title>Angelo &#8220;Gyp&#8221; DeCarlo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Angelo &#8220;Gyp&#8221; DeCarlo was a member of the Genovese crime family. He ran the loan sharking activities in New Jersey in the 1960s. He was purportedly hooked up with Frank Sinatra. He was sentenced to 12 years after being convicted of extortion and poisoning.
DeCarlo was diagnosed with cancer while incarcerated. In December of 1972 he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.federalpresidentialpardon.com/2010/03/18/angelo-gyp-decarlo/</link>
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		<title>Vietnam Draft Dodgers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many American&#8217;s were against the Vietnam War. At the time of the draft, the baby boomers were at the center of the draft. Sentiment was that the draft was unfair because the rich and the well educated could escape the draft. Many young people left to go to Canada. The United States prosecuted people who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.federalpresidentialpardon.com/2010/03/11/vietnam-draft-dodgers/</link>
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		<title>Isaac Robert Toussie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A significant question is posed about the illegality of W's revocation. Does the president have the power to revoke a pardon? Apparently the answer is that if the filing of the actual paperwork has not been perfected by the pardon attorney at the department of justice, then the president can revoke the pardon.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.federalpresidentialpardon.com/2010/02/14/isaac-robert-toussie/</link>
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		<title>Charles Thompson Winters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After World War II, Winters entered into the import/export business. He was recruited to illegally export B-17 bombers to Israel. He manage to smuggle three B-17s to Israel. He conspired to violate the Neutrality Act of 1939 by helping Israel with two other men: Al Schwimmer and Herman Greenspun.The three men were prosecuted by the United States Attorney in Miami.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.federalpresidentialpardon.com/2010/02/10/charles-thompson-winters/</link>
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		<title>Vicki Lopez Lukis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once in prison, she worked with many young people to try to help them become active members of society. In fact, her work has been so influential she is considered by some to be an authority on the subject of re-integration from detention for women. Now that she is not in custody she has continued to worked with young women to help them re-enter society and have a positive impact on society.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.federalpresidentialpardon.com/2010/01/04/vicki-lopez-lukis/</link>
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		<title>Peter MacDonald</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MacDonald was chairman of the Navajo. He was convicted in both tribal court and US Federal court for different criminals offenses.
Most notable was a fraud conviction for his involvement in a deal for a piece of land known as the Big Boquillas ranch. Before the Boquillas transaction, the Navajo and the Hopi were disputing a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.federalpresidentialpardon.com/2010/01/01/peter-macdonald/</link>
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		<title>Jimmy Hoffa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1971, Hoffa was given a conditional commutation by Nixon.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.federalpresidentialpardon.com/2009/12/01/jimmy-hoffa/</link>
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