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JUSTICE TAKES A HOLIDAY

Grinch Bush Revokes Real-Estate Crook’s Pardon

What a great Grinchy trick. With this hat and this coat, I'll look just like Saint Nick. 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]


11:50 PM on Wed December 24 2008
By Ken Layne
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  1. …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.

  2. SayItWithWookies says at 12:11 am, December 25th, 2008

    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.

  3. SayItWithWookies says at 12:12 am, December 25th, 2008

    SayItWithWookies: And yes, I realize that was three things, not one thing. It’s the trinity, beeyatches.

  4. Bummer. This sets a precedent. Maybe all the rich people who exploits the poor will go to jail.

    A boy can dream, no?

  5. Chief Grinning Eagle says at 12:22 am, December 25th, 2008

    You’re pardoned. . .
    Whoops.
    Never mind.

  6. New York? We care about New York now? I thought New York “was dead” to Bush.

  7. Mr Blifil says at 12:51 am, December 25th, 2008

    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.

  8. “Hey kid, either you’re a free man or Bush is lying.”

  9. Personally, I ALWAYS give out pardons without first learning what they did.

  10. sanantonerose says at 1:18 am, December 25th, 2008

    HA HA! Merry fucking Christmas.

  11. Colander says at 1:43 am, December 25th, 2008

    Oh man, that’s gonna be an embarrassing facebook update!

  12. WalnutsIsMyCo-Pilot says at 1:48 am, December 25th, 2008

    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!!

  13. Bush is selling pardons for 28K?
    Has anybody told Blago?

  14. BobLoblawLawBlog says at 2:26 am, December 25th, 2008

    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?

  15. 4tehlulz says at 2:44 am, December 25th, 2008

    Was Bush drunk when he signed the pardon or when he revoked it?

  16. Darehead says at 3:11 am, December 25th, 2008

    Oops. Somebody didn’t deliver well enuf on the buttsecks. No hard-on, no pardon.

  17. Vanity Smurf says at 3:17 am, December 25th, 2008

    $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.

  18. AngryBlakGuy says at 3:24 am, December 25th, 2008

    …hehehehe, I would like to think this has something to do with me! But I am totally drunk bloggggggggggggggggging right noh!

  19. Darehead says at 3:29 am, December 25th, 2008

    Drogging on the birthday of our baby Jesus? Have you no shame?

  20. schvitzatura says at 4:18 am, December 25th, 2008

    Bush and Cheney declare forever war on Who-istan…their hearts grew ten sizes that day!

  21. Paul Tardy says at 4:21 am, December 25th, 2008

    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.

  22. 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.

  23. shanemcgowan says at 5:43 am, December 25th, 2008

    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.

  24. Serolf Divad says at 6:34 am, December 25th, 2008

    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.

  25. The original pardon was the only mistake the otherwise perfect Bush administration ever made. Ever.

  26. 4tehlulz says at 7:51 am, December 25th, 2008

    Serolf Divad: Like Chuck Colson?

  27. Darehead says at 8:07 am, December 25th, 2008

    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!

  28. 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

  29. shanemcgowan says at 8:45 am, December 25th, 2008

    Bruno: win.

  30. 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.”

  31. Packherd says at 4:13 pm, December 25th, 2008

    Presidents get pardon do-overs? Bush has discovered yet another executive authority within the Constitution.

  32. 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.

  33. Joey Ratz says at 7:22 pm, December 25th, 2008

    aleks: He’s free, then. Because Bush never lies. Never ever.

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