While issuing more than 400 pardons during his eight years of office, Mr. Clinton wiped clean the records of his half brother, Roger, who had been convicted of distributing cocaine;
John Deutch, a former CIA director who violated security laws; 16 members of the Puerto Rican separatist group FALN, some of whom had been convicted of violent crimes; and Susan MacDougal, a partner of the Clintons in Whitewater who had been convicted of misusing loan proceeds.
In addition, he pardoned Henry Cisneros, secretary of housing and urban development, who lied to federal agents about payments to his mistress, and Vonna Jo Gregory, who was convicted of bank fraud and paid Mrs. Clinton's brother, Tony Rodham, to help secure the pardon.
Melvin J. Reynolds, a Democratic Congressman from Illinois,
12 counts of sexual assault, obstruction of justice, and solicitation of child pornography had his sentence commuted by Bill Clinton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_pardons_controversy
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