President Pardons Former Texas Mayor - Bank Fraud, '80s S & L

President Pardons Former Texas Mayor

Feb 16, 4:06 PM (ET)



WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush pardoned a former mayor of Plano, Texas, who pleaded guilty to bank fraud in 1996, the Justice Department announced Monday.

David B. McCall Jr., who is battling cancer, served six months in prison for his role in fraudulent loans at the Plano Savings and Loan Association, which failed in the mid-1980s.

Officials in Plano, a Dallas suburb, earlier this month renamed a downtown plaza in McCall's honor for his service as mayor from 1956 to 1960.

McCall and four other men, including another former Plano mayor, were indicted in August 1995 on allegations they created a web of transactions designed to transfer troublesome loans from one institution to another.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040216/D80OJ1O00.html


TalkLeft is on it: http://www.talkleft.com/archives/005883.html#005883

He should pounce on this the way the right pounced on Mark Rich.

This was a rare act of compassion from a president who has been anything but a compassionate conservative. Pardoning a cancer victim who poses no threat to society was the right thing to do. We can only hope that a President Kerry would do this type of thing more often.

Do you have any idea how many people in prison for non-violent offenses have chronic or terminal illnesses? Thousands!

This is cronyism, plain and simple.

Compassion my ass.

I agree that people who have very serious health issues should be treated more compassionately. However, this was not releasing a man for hospitalization or to a hospice. This was an administrative pardon to clear a man's record of some pretty hideous charges. He earned that criminal record, and he should have carried it to his grave.

It's just a bunch of richie Republicans who've not worked an honest day in their lives.

McCall pleaded guilty to bank fraud in 1996, and served six months in prison. It sounds like he served his time- why would he need a pardon?
The AP story from the link doesn't really provide enough information to answer this- does anyone know?

to his crimes.. Certain types of people are very sensitive about their "good names".. and the way they are remembered...

In other words,, they are just re-writing history..:)

the keyword is not "Marc".

Its "Rich".