Federal Presidential Pardon» lobbyist http://www.federalpresidentialpardon.com A Study of Noteworthy Presidential Pardons Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:56:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Vicki Lopez Lukis http://www.federalpresidentialpardon.com/2010/01/04/vicki-lopez-lukis/ http://www.federalpresidentialpardon.com/2010/01/04/vicki-lopez-lukis/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:30:40 +0000 Brian J. Zeiger http://www.federalpresidentialpardon.com/?p=168 Vicki Lopez Lukis was a Lee County Commissioner in Florida. She was convicted of mail fraud by using her position of power on the as Board member to influence her personal life. She was romantically involved with a lobbyist. She voted for items that helped the lobbyist’s clients. She attempted to “convince” someone running for the Board not to run based on an illict video tape she possessed and later leeked to the media regarding the candidate’s personal life.

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.

Clinton commuted her sentence on November 21, 2000.

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