Washington, December 17 (RHC)-- U.S. President Joe Biden has come under fierce condemnation as the names of the 1,500 individuals he granted clemency to last Thursday were revealed. 

Those granted clemency include former Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan, who was sentenced in 2011 to 17.5 years for accepting nearly $3 million in kickbacks for sending 2,300 children, some as young as 8 years old, to for-profit prisons on false charges.

Another person receiving clemency is Meera Sachdeva, a Mississippi doctor who gave her patients diluted chemo drugs as part of a massive Medicare fraud. 

Rita Crundwell, a former comptroller and treasurer in Illinois, embezzled more than $53 million from the city of Dixon.  She used the money to breed racing horses. Biden’s act of mass clemency came in the wake of his presidential pardon for his son Hunter.

[ SOURCE:  DEMOCRACY NOW ]