{"id":8123,"date":"2017-12-21T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T17:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candoclemency.com\/?p=8123"},"modified":"2022-08-19T13:11:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:11:02","slug":"can-applauds-trumps-first-commutation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/can-applauds-trumps-first-commutation\/","title":{"rendered":"CAN-DO applauds President Trump’s first commutation!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CAN-DO Foundation is overjoyed by President Trump’s first commutation of sentence to\u00a0Sholom Rubashkin, an\u00a0Iowa kosher meatpacking executive. \u00a0 This is remarkable for two reasons. \u00a0It’s very rare for a president to commute a sentence in their first year in office. \u00a0President Obama, who granted a record number of commutations, only granted one in his third year in office on November 21, 2011 to\u00a0Eugenia Marie Jennings. \u00a0He did not grant any more until his second term on December 19, 2013 to eight individuals, all convicted of drug crimes. \u00a0We hope this is an indication that President Trump is interested in granting commutations to numerous individuals who have paid their price to society for what are typically non-violent crimes, especially if they were a first time offender. \u00a0The CAN-DO Foundation has profiled many individuals on our website who are serving 20 years to life and are equally deserving of mercy. We are optimistic this commutation, so early in Trump’s presidency is an indication of more to come.<\/p>\n

Time Magazine shared the following about President Trump’s act of mercy – read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n

President Trump Commutes Sentence for Kosher Meatpacking Exec Convicted of Fraud<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of an Iowa kosher meatpacking executive who was sentence to 27 years in prison for money laundering.<\/p>\n

The commutation is Trump\u2019s first in office and comes following the encouragement of multiple members of congress and other high-ranking officials who argued the sentence was too harsh.<\/p>\n

Sholom Rubashkin ran the Iowa headquarters of Agriprocessors, a family business that was the country\u2019s largest kosher meat-processing company. \u00a0 More of the story can be viewed by clicking the link above.<\/p>\n

More details on Fox can be viewed here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The action was “encouraged by bipartisan leaders from across the political spectrum, from Nancy Pelosi to Orrin Hatch,” the White House said.<\/p>\n

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The CAN-DO Foundation is overjoyed by President Trump’s first commutation of sentence to\u00a0Sholom Rubashkin, an\u00a0Iowa kosher meatpacking executive. \u00a0 This is remarkable for two reasons. \u00a0It’s very rare for a president to commute a sentence in their first year in office. \u00a0President Obama, who granted a record number of commutations, only granted one in his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,4],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-8123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-can-do-media","category-can-do-news","tag-can-do-foundation"],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Amy Ralston Povah","author_link":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/author\/candoamy\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":40,"name":"CAN-DO in the Media","slug":"can-do-media","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":40,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":199,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":40,"category_count":199,"category_description":"","cat_name":"CAN-DO in the Media","category_nicename":"can-do-media","category_parent":0},{"term_id":4,"name":"CAN-DO News","slug":"can-do-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":224,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":4,"category_count":224,"category_description":"","cat_name":"CAN-DO News","category_nicename":"can-do-news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":27,"name":"CAN-DO Foundation","slug":"can-do-foundation","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":461,"filter":"raw"}],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":40,"label":"CAN-DO in the Media"},{"value":4,"label":"CAN-DO News"}],"post_tag":[{"value":27,"label":"CAN-DO Foundation"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14688,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123\/revisions\/14688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}