'The president can surely find more deserving recipients of his commutation power' WednesdayWisdom
There have been a total of 5,657 petitions for sentence commutations considered by President Donald Trump since he won the White House, Justice Department statistics show. At this point, only four have been granted,The 81-year-old Wall Street schemer, according to CNBC, has filed a petition asking Trump reduce his 150-year sentence, which is currently being served in a federal prison in Butner, N.C.
Matthew Schwartz, a former prosecutor in the case, told Bloomberg that Madoff doesn’t deserve the president’s attention. The life Madoff is petitioning to return to ahead of schedule is not the one he left, with his family having crumbled under the weight of his conviction. Both his sons have since died, one from cancer and the other from suicide.
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