Bush Issues 19 Pardons, Commutes 1 Prison Term

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President Bush granted clemency to 20 people Tuesday, including a man who was convicted of delivering planes used by Israel in its 1948 war of independence and a real estate developer whose father has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Republican candidates and the party.

Charles Winters, who died in 1984, bought and transferred three B- 17 bombers to what would eventually become the Israeli Air Force. He pleaded guilty to violating the Neutrality Act and received jail time.

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Bush Issues 19 Pardons, Commutes 1 Prison Term

Another man who received a pardon - Issac Robert Toussie, of Brooklyn, N.Y. - pleaded guilty in 2001 to fraudulently obtaining mortgages from the Department of Housing and U...

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