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April 27, 2022

Biden Pardons Three People & Commutes Sentences of 75 Drug Offenders
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President Biden has pardoned three people and commuted the sentence of
75 nonviolent drug offenders. One of the pardons went to 86-year-old
Abraham Bolden Sr., who was the first Black Secret Service agent to
serve on a presidential detail. Bolden was jailed on federal bribery
charges in the 1960s, but he has long claimed he was framed after
speaking out against racism within the Secret Service.


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