Bush pardons Denver attorney

Rocky Mountain News
Bush pardons Denver attorney
MDC counsel, now 49, was sentenced in '84 cocaine case

By Tillie Fong and Hector Gutierrez, Rocky Mountain News
December 21, 2005

A Denver lawyer was pardoned Tuesday by President Bush for drug-related crimes she committed more than two decades ago.

Wendy St. Charles, now 49, was among 11 people who received presidential pardons.

In 1984, she was sentenced to four years in prison in Illinois for conspiracy to conduct a narcotics enterprise and distribution of cocaine, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

She was also put on four years of special parole and four years of probation, which were to run consecutively with her sentence.

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http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4331378,00.html

What does a body have to do to get justice around here? Forgiving drug dealers, medals for liars and coverups, torture for innocents, and the beating goes on.

Buhs 'is believed' to have been a coke head and he's pardoning coke dealers...

And the big, dirty, open secret of the S&L heist is that they were largely used to launder billions of dollars of cocaine money.

Was she his main source or just a low level stooge in the supply chain?

Seems like I only hear about when they're about to leave office.

save the whoppers for when they are about to leave office.

I suppose she'll get a job in the next Repub administration.

How many other coke dealers did Bush pardon?

Just the contributors?

Why did this convicted felon deserve to have her record cleaned but not others?

Oh - it's because she supports the republican party.

REMEMBER - IOKIYAAR - It's OK if you are a republican!

:sarcasm:

/sarcasm

I predict we are looking at the 2013 Attorney General.

He's a fuckwit.

Loop said that after St. Charles graduated from law school in 1995, she worked for several law firms in Florida before coming to Colorado.

Well, I guess being a coke dealer is one way to be productive.

Probably an old coke snortin' pal.

The CIA was using them to distribute cocaine in the US. The timing would be about right.

:shrug: or she is setting up to deal to him now.

Perhaps it's the drugs. He's just becoming forgetful.

not to mention all those black people and other minorities who had not so much more than a single JOINT and are now locke away for LIFE!

It was bad enough that this rich white repuke was only sentenced to less than 4 years while others rot the rest of their lives!

Who are the other 10 people * pardoned and do they have any connection however remote to the current set of crimes these guys have committed?

Bush is DREAMING of a WHITE CHRISTMAS




http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4331378,00.

Just asking...

WASHINGTON - President Bush has granted 11 pardons, bringing to 69 the number of clemency orders he has issued since taking office five years ago, the Justice Department said.

Three moonshiners and a bank robber are among those pardoned, as is a Denver attorney with Republican political ties. The pardons were issued Tuesday, in keeping with a tradition of granting clemency during the holiday season.

One of those pardoned, Wendy St. Charles, is a lawyer for a Denver homebuilder, MDC Holdings, parent of Richmond American Homes, The Denver Post reported. St. Charles was convicted on drug charges in 1984 and sentenced to four years in prison.

MDC's chairman, Larry Mizel, has contributed more than half a million dollars to Republican campaigns along with his wife, Carol, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. A company spokeswoman did not immediately return a phone call from The Associated Press.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051223/ap_on_go_pr_wh/presidential_pardons

I wonder how many Bush is planning to grant clemency to.

for those who make 'shine.

like his brothers

Al Martins summary of the Gale Norton MDC connection:

http://government.press-world.com/v/40024/world-exclusive-the-secret-life-of-gale-norton-by-al-martin.html

clemency for the son of a good donor (at the hight of the Clinton "Pardongate)

Don't you just love it?

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1151AP_Presidential_Pardons.html

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WASHINGTON -- President Bush has granted 11 pardons, bringing to 69 the number of clemency orders he has issued since taking office five years ago, the Justice Department said.

Three moonshiners and a bank robber are among those pardoned, as is a Denver attorney with Republican political ties. The pardons were issued Tuesday, in keeping with a tradition of granting clemency during the holiday season.

One of those pardoned, Wendy St. Charles, is a lawyer for a Denver homebuilder, MDC Holdings, parent of Richmond American Homes, The Denver Post reported. St. Charles was convicted on drug charges in 1984 and sentenced to four years in prison.

MDC's chairman, Larry Mizel, has contributed more than half a million dollars to Republican campaigns along with his wife, Carol, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. A company spokeswoman did not immediately return a phone call from The Associated Press.

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By the way, who the hell is a moonshiner these days? I don't know any.

What, did the feds catch some poor guy making a little apple jack for himself and friends? LOL!

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One of the moonshiners, Carl E. Cantrell of Monteagle, Tenn., said he was arrested at his still without ever selling a drop. He was convicted of federal liquor law violations in 1967 and sentenced to three years' probation.

"I wasn't trying to cause nobody no harm," he told The Knoxville News Sentinel. "I was just trying to make a living."

"I wasn't trying to cause nobody no harm" :7

Yep, talks like a moonshiner alright! I didn't think they were around much anymore. I'd also be interested in how this guy could get a pardon. Obviously he must know somebody who knows the Bush family, or similar. Has this guy been running shine to the White House or something?? It wouldn't surprise me if Bush with all his money still can't stand those fancy liquors, and instead need some good ol' shine to get him going! And besides, this way there's no transaction records you'd have to get rid of if for some reason you needed to conceal your habit... :beer:

Merry Christmas DU! :toast:

but just wait until the day before Baby Bush leaves office.

You think the Clinton pardons were sleazy (and yes, some of them were)?

You ain't seen nothing yet.

No No BABY you just ain't seen nothin' yet!! Somethin you're never gonna forget...


Buh-buh-Baby you just Ain't seen NOTHIN' yet!


I concur!!! It's gonna be hilarious, probably like everyone who's a registered Republican who's convicted of jamor crimes, oh, and the moonshiners caught between today and then...

The Constitution provides the president with the power to grant clemency. A presidential pardon can't expunge a conviction, but it can help regain rights such as voting and owning guns.

(snip) "One of those pardoned, Wendy St. Charles, is a lawyer for a Denver home builder, MDC Holdings, parent of Richmond American Homes, the Denver Post reported. St. Charles was convicted on drug charges in 1984 and sentenced to four years in prison.
MDC's chairman, Larry Mizel, has contributed more than half a million dollars to Republican campaigns along with his wife, Carol, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. A company spokeswoman did not immediately return a phone call."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/23/AR2005122301460.html

drugs seem to be the most common thread, but all of them seem to be petty criminals with no real clear indication of why they were pardoned, beyond payoffs for influence or campaign contributions.

call me naive, but doesn't that equate to influence peddling or a bribe?

you'll see that a lot of them probably make no sense. Although I'm sure some of Bushie's has to do with campaign contributions.

Florida connection.

No surprise there.