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   I guess sex trafficking, violent assault, gun possession and murder all   
   count as “non-violent drug offenses” in Joe Biden’s America, and crime   
   victims are irrelevant.   
      
   In his last days, Biden commuted the sentences of 2,500 federal defendants   
   he claimed were convicted of “non-violent drug offenses, who are serving   
   disproportionately long sentences.”   
      
   Biden is either lying or his senior advisers are lying to him.   
      
   Biden reduced the sentence of Lairon Graham, 67, a Buffalo man convicted   
   in 2023 of organizing and heading a drug conspiracy to sell fentanyl,   
   crack, cocaine and heroin.   
      
   When police raided his home, they found fentanyl, crack and cash. He also   
   possessed a firearm in his residence.   
      
   In addition to heading up the drug gang, Graham was also convicted of “sex   
   trafficking by force or coercion” from 2013 to 2021.   
      
   You see, this “non-violent drug dealer” threatened or beat at least four   
   women in order to force them to engage in commercial sexual activity.   
      
   He beat one learning-disabled woman on a daily basis. He had 12 prior   
   convictions.   
      
   Biden lowered his sentence from 22 years to 12½ years.   
      
   Biden commuted the sentence of Valentino Shine, 57, convicted in 2019 of   
   five counts of sex trafficking, narcotics sales and intent to distribute   
   crack cocaine.   
      
   He ran a sex-trafficking operation out of his Buffalo residence,   
   exploiting at least nine drug-addicted women and coercing them to engage   
   in commercial sex acts. His motto was ”BABI-PAE” — Break a [Expletive]   
   Incorporated; Pimping Ain’t Easy.   
      
   Three of the women who worked for Shine died of drug overdoses as a result   
   of their addiction. He would use beatings and drugs to control the women.   
      
   Biden lowered his sentence from 30 years to 18 years, 4 months.   
      
   Jaron Ruth, 32, another Buffalo native, pleaded guilty in 2019 to selling   
   drugs in Erie and Cattaraugus counties over a period of three years and   
   possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking during that period.   
      
   Ruth had been charged with shooting a man in the chest during a burglary   
   of the victim’s home, but that charge was not a part of the plea.   
      
   Instead, the judge found at the sentencing hearing that Ruth had “more   
   likely than not” committed the murder and used that crime to enhance his   
   sentence.   
      
   Biden reduced his sentence from 10 years to 7.   
      
   I wonder whether President Biden knew what he was doing when he signed off   
   on these commutations.  I’m sure he didn’t read 2,500 memos from his   
   staff.   
      
   I have no idea who on his staff recommended these commutations to him, but   
   this follows a long line of practices for the “criminal-justice   
   advocates.”   
      
   They create a false narrative — “racial injustice,” “disparate   
   sentencing,” “mean-spirited DAs,” “young people’s lives ruined,” etc. —   
   and then enact radical policies while fending off opposition by attacking   
   their opponents as racist. Their real goal is simply to empty the prisons.   
      
   The press coverage is taken right from the White House’s press release.   
   The commutations are reported as being for “non-violent drug offenders”   
   and are designed to “end the disparity between sentences for crack and   
   powder cocaine,” providing “deserving individuals the opportunity to   
   return to their families.”  Really?!   
      
   The United States Attorney’s Office does not normally prosecute 18-year-   
   old kids selling dime bags on the corner. There are almost always   
   aggravating factors — large-scale drug operations, sex trafficking,   
   violence and firearms.   
      
   I would bet there are hundreds and hundreds of other defendants with   
   equally lengthy sentences and horrific records among these 2,500   
   commutees. These are just three defendants in one of the 94 federal   
   districts across the country.   
      
   I’m sure Biden’s radical aides simply ran a computer search of anybody   
   convicted of drugs (ignoring the other charges) and gave him the list to   
   sign.   
      
   But this is beyond pathetic.   
      
   What of the victims, Mr. President? Were they ever notified of these   
   commutations? Were they allowed to give input?   
      
   Who recommended these defendants to you? Who on earth is advising you on   
   these things?   
      
   The Democratic Party touts itself as the last best hope for women. How   
   does it square that with the commutations of the sentences of sex   
   traffickers, murderers and drug dealers?   
      
   The presidential pardon and commutation power is a constitutional   
   prerogative of the president. But it doesn’t mean it is beyond   
   investigation.   
      
   Perhaps Attorney General-designate Pam Bondi will look into these   
   commutations when she is confirmed. I hope so. Or perhaps Gov. Hochul will   
   look into the New York defendants. I doubt it.   
      
   At the sentencing hearing on Lairon Graham, the mother of his (daily   
   beaten) sex-trafficking victim spoke. The victim, a 30-year-old, learning-   
   disabled woman, died prior to the sentencing.   
      
   At that sentencing, when the court asked her mother if she wanted   
   restitution from the defendant, all she asked for was the money to bury   
   her daughter and put a tombstone on the grave.   
      
   Could Biden look her in the eye and tell her what he did for her   
   daughter’s tormentor?   
      
   Jim Quinn was executive district attorney in the Queens District   
   ­Attorney’s Office, where he served for 42 years.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2025/01/19/opinion/in-one-final-insult-to-victims-   
   biden-commutes-sentences-of-killers-and-sex-traffickers/   
      
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