President Joe Biden on Thursday pardoned a former Ohio Democratic Party official who was convicted on charges related to nearly a decade of bribery.
Former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora received $166,000 worth of property, including “cash, home improvements, lavish meals at high-end restaurants, services from prostitutes, gambling trips to Las Vegas and Canada, and other items.” I accepted a bribe. According to Send the money to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, in exchange for bribes, Dimora “sealed contracts to allies, gave jobs and raises to colleagues, arbitrated with judges in pending cases, paid grants and money to himself, etc.” He is said to have lobbied for favorable loans for those who had given him money. He was sentenced to 28 years in prison in 2012.
Mr. Dimora has denied any wrongdoing and previously requested Pardon from President Barack Obama. obama ignored He made this request while agreeing to commute hundreds of other sentences toward the end of his term.
Mr. Dimora was one of about 1,500 people whose sentences were commuted by Mr. Biden under a White House provision on Thursday. explained as “the largest single-day pardon in modern history.”
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Today, President Biden pardoned 39 people convicted of nonviolent crimes and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people. These people have proven that they deserve a second chance, and second chances give us…
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“I’m also commuting the sentences of approximately 1,500 people serving long prison sentences, many of whom could receive lighter sentences if they were prosecuted under today’s laws, policies, and practices. ” Biden wrote in the article. statement Thursday. “These daycare recipients who were homebound during the coronavirus pandemic have successfully reintegrated into their families and communities, showing they deserve a second chance.”
Dimora was released on home confinement under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and was previously scheduled to remain at home until 2030. According to To the Akron Beacon Journal. (Related: Biden commutes sentences of cartel leaders, crack dealers, ‘notorious’ fraudsters in massive clemency push)
More than 50 people were convicted in the Cuyahoga County corruption investigation uncovered in Dimora’s trial.
The list of people whose sentences have been commuted by Biden also includes drug traffickers, crack dealers and convicts in some of the nation’s largest fraud cases.
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