Former elected official, lawyers, and medical bill company owner among those granted clemency and pardons by Biden

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President Joe Biden granted clemency to close to 1,500 individuals in a historic act aimed at people convicted of non-violent crimes, many related to illegal drugs. Among those whose sentences were commuted, were individuals involved in corruption, tax fraud, and Medicare fraud cases. One prominent case was that of Jimmy Dimora, a former Cuyahoga County Commissioner in Ohio who orchestrated a pay-to-play scheme and received bribes, including extravagant gifts like a stone-fired pizza oven. Anthony Le from Alabama was sentenced for drug and gun charges, while Malcolm Hartzog, previously granted clemency by Barack Obama, had his life sentence commuted to 30 years. Paul Daugerdas, a former law partner from Illinois, was convicted of overseeing fraudulent tax shelters, costing the government over $1.63 billion, and Elaine Lovett, a medical billing company owner from Michigan, was involved in a $26 million Medicare fraud scheme. Additionally, Shaquan Hemingway was sentenced as part of an interstate drug trafficking operation involving heroin, fentanyl, crack cocaine, and methamphetamines. Many of those who received clemency had completed their sentences but will now have their crimes wiped from their records. Biden’s act of clemency marked the largest single-day commutation in modern history and focused on individuals who had been released from prison more than a year ago under the CARES Act due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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