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President Bush pardoned eight people, including a man convicted of bootlegging 45 years ago, the Justice Department announced Friday.
Those granted pardons were:
* Alan Dale Austin, Mabank, Texas, misapplication of mortgage funds, sentenced October 1987 to two years in prison and $22,000 in restitution.
* Charles Russell Cooper, Corpus Christi, Texas, bootlegging, sentenced May 1959 in South Carolina to three years probation.
* Joseph Daniel Gavin, East Elmhurst, N.Y., court-martialed by the Army in 1984 for failure to obey an order and other charges and given a bad conduct discharge.
* Raul Marin, El Paso, Texas, failure to appear, sentenced January 1982 to six months in prison, five years probation.
* Ernest Rudnet, Tamarac, Fla., conspiracy to file false tax returns, sentenced March 1992 to one year probation.
* Gary L. Saltzburg, Clovis, N.M., theft of government property, sentenced January 1995 to 18 months probation, community service.
* David Lloyd St. Croix, Kenmare, N.D., disposing of stolen explosives, sentenced June 1989 to two years probation and a $500 fine.
* Joseph William Warner, McLaughlin, S.D., arson on an Indian reservation, sentenced November 1995 to eight months in prison, a $5,000 fine, and restitution of $5,560.
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Question, what does pardoning someone 45 years later really mean? This bootlegger's sentence is not even an issue today, so why waste the energy pardoning him?
RUgreek