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Brooklyn fraud king Isaac Robert Toussie got the gift of Innocence from George W. Bush on Tuesday. But just a day later, on Christmas Eve, mean old Grinch W. Bush’s heart shrunk three times. Even thought Toussie’s dad sent the GOP a $28,500 “reminder” that his convicted felon son really needed a presidential pardon for running an elaborate and cruel housing/mortgage scam that pretty much defines the amoral real-estate boom & bust of this miserable decade, the White House suddenly decided they really didn’t fully understand how this famous crook screwed over hundreds of working-class and low-income minority families.
The Bush Administration claims it learned from news reports, yesterday, that Isaac R. Toussie is a criminal who did terrible things in Suffolk County, New York, as well as being a convicted mortgage-fraud ringleader who falsified stacks of loan applications for HUD-backed home loans.
What’s shocking is that the Bush Administration is suddenly sensitive to a flood of outraged blog posts and news stories about whatever corrupt thing the Bush Administration just pulled. They weren’t bothered by the outrage over Iraq or domestic spying or Halliburton or Katrina or Abu Ghraib or Enron or Waterboarding or … jesus christ, do we really want to list all this stuff, again?
Let’s all hope President Jenna Bush will finally bring justice to the world and pardon this great man, the real-estate crook, in 2020.
Pardon Lasts Just One Day for Developer in Fraud Case [New York Times]
…and a big “Huh? Toussie who?” from the Justice Department on this case too.
Go to bed, Ken, or Santa won’t put any TRUCK NUTZ under the tree for you tonight.
This can only mean one thing: Dick Cheney is dead, in a comatose state, or frantically trying to get the bloodstains off the necktie.
Also, next to it on RawStory is a headline that says “Pope Condemns Child Abuse.” This freakish storm of propriety has me discombobulated.
SayItWithWookies: And yes, I realize that was three things, not one thing. It’s the trinity, beeyatches.
Bummer. This sets a precedent. Maybe all the rich people who exploits the poor will go to jail.
A boy can dream, no?
You’re pardoned. . .
Whoops.
Never mind.
New York? We care about New York now? I thought New York “was dead” to Bush.
Wow. It’s one thing to contribute $30 K or so in order to get your son a pardon, and then fail in so doing. Nothing ventured nothing gained, you know? But this is tantamount to meeting that $30 Large with a stiff middle finger and a steel-toed boot to the ass.
There will now be push back, as the “injured” party (Toussie’s dad) will start airing who exactly he was talking to, and those people will start exonerating themselves by telling us which bigwig upstairs wanted little Toussie free.
Should be fun.
“Hey kid, either you’re a free man or Bush is lying.”
Personally, I ALWAYS give out pardons without first learning what they did.
HA HA! Merry fucking Christmas.
Oh man, that’s gonna be an embarrassing facebook update!
Ohhh I can only imagine the walk of shame that boy’s gonna to have to experience. I bet his old cellie is gonna give him a good Christmas raping tonight! Or maybe he’ll pardon his ass… and by “pardon” I mean “rape repeatedly”. Ho Ho Ho… MEERRRYY CHRISTMAS!!
Bush is selling pardons for 28K?
Has anybody told Blago?
Colander: Win.
I must admit, this is a shocker to me. WTF is going on in the White House these days? Dubya seems intent on polishing his legacy while Cheney’s runs around admitting all the war crimes they committed. Is everyone on meth?
Was Bush drunk when he signed the pardon or when he revoked it?
Oops. Somebody didn’t deliver well enuf on the buttsecks. No hard-on, no pardon.
$28,500? Methinks there is at least one zero missing from that amount. He should have consulted Denise Rich on how to write a pardon check for the correct amount.
4tehlulz: Both. Love the avatar.
…hehehehe, I would like to think this has something to do with me! But I am totally drunk bloggggggggggggggggging right noh!
Drogging on the birthday of our baby Jesus? Have you no shame?
Bush and Cheney declare forever war on Who-istan…their hearts grew ten sizes that day!
Hey, Wonk-Offs, if the dude was pardoned that’s it. If the Prez signed the paper and it was officially emitted, abada bing abada bum it’s done. The Prezo does not have the ability to un-pardon. My guess is that at some point the dude challenges the un-pardon, when Bush is out of office. To paraphrase the umpire, Heeeeeeeeez OUT.
Vanity Smurf: Don’t forget the $28,500 is the reported amount. You will find that large cash gifts ‘get lighter’ as the pass through various layers of hands. This is what I learned from the Sopranos, and from doing business in africa.
One can picture Jr. saying “I’ve got this (pardon) thing and it’s fucking golden, and, uh, uh, I’m just not giving it up for fuckin’ nothing. I’m not gonna do it. And, and I can always use it. I can parachute me there.”
Check must’ve bounced.
You may cheer this decision, but let me tell you: it’ll be a sad day in America when presidents only pardon the wrongly convicted, or those who have redeemed themselves through decades of charitable/humanitarian works.
The original pardon was the only mistake the otherwise perfect Bush administration ever made. Ever.
Serolf Divad: Like Chuck Colson?
How befitting that the president that got elected by accusing his opponent of flip-flopping ends his tenure with the whole world throwing their shoes at him.
Ain’t over yet though….for, then what does he do?
He filp-flops! On Christmas eve!
Merry Christmas fellow Wonketteers!
TGY: Romania had some very interesting ideas about Christmas send off presents to its failed leaders:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C5%9Fescu#Execution
Bruno: win.
Paul Tardy: Paul Tardy: The Justice Department official said he thought Toussie would have no grounds to argue that the president could not take back a pardon once it has been issued. “A pardon isn’t official until the warrant is received by the person who requested it, and that hasn’t happened yet,” the official said. IHT
See? No warrant, no pardon. “Fuck you, Mr. Toussie, and the whores you came in on.”
Presidents get pardon do-overs? Bush has discovered yet another executive authority within the Constitution.
Toussie had been up all night hollering in joy at his fellow inmates and the guards because they were a bunch of loser asshole pussies. “I’ll never see you losers again, you fuckin’ loser losers!” Then the phone rang in the warden’s office. Oops.
aleks: He’s free, then. Because Bush never lies. Never ever.