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Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic Attorney General Radhamés Jiménez has defended president Leonel Fernández decision announced on Monday granting pardons for five prisoners, saying that authorizing a pardon is a constitutional power bestowed on the president.

Criticism has been voiced in many quarters following the president’s decision to pardon Vivian Lubrano, who was sentenced to five years imprisonment for her role in the fraudulent collapse of Banco Intercontinetal (Baninter) as well as the four men convicted in the Plan Renove case. Several members of the Pardons Commission have resigned, saying that they were not consulted.

Jiménez clarified that although the AG’s office had set up a Pardons Commission made up of “serious people”, the president was not subordinate to its criteria and recommendations.

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13 comment(s)
Written by: josean, 26 Dec 2008 11:41 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Another BUM! Senator Guerrero was right!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is a good for nothing boot licker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Written by: gmiller261, 26 Dec 2008 12:11 PM
From: United States

Pull your head out of your ass. Or whoever’s ass you have your head up.

Illiterate! You disgust me.

Attorney General, you are supposed to have the peoples best interest at heart not your special interest groups.
Written by: dreadlocks, 26 Dec 2008 12:16 PM
From: United States
this is the kind of idiot who gives the Dominican Republic and even worse name than it already has, internationally. he defends the pardons on the grounds that it is the constitutional right of the President to grant pardons. yes, moron, we know that, or it would have been challenged in the courts. the gravamen is not why, but to whom. the president can grant pardons, yes, but when he grants them to powerful people who have conspired to steal the country's treasure for their own aggrandisement, it does not pass the nose test. and, for the defenders of the act, they just plain stink!
Written by: gmiller261, 26 Dec 2008 12:27 PM
From: United States

dreadlocks, with you on that. And well said.

They should go to Hell, directly to Hell.
Written by: gouletcolonial This user is banned, 26 Dec 2008 12:37 PM
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
Dominican Attorney General defends pardons .....he defends the presidents right to make them ? or he defends them as honorable and well meaning and a good idea ? ...they are two very different things
Written by: dreadlocks, 26 Dec 2008 4:05 PM
From: United States
thank you, gmiller, for your kind remarks. these guys are just plain old out to lunch
Written by: ABR23, 26 Dec 2008 4:20 PM
From: Puerto Rico
While he is right, it makes him look bad and stupid. Who, asked for his legal opinion? Everyone knows the president can pardon whoever he wants. They told this idiot to go say it is legal. No one has said it is not legal.
The message sent is, I will do it. expect the same for Leonel Almonte, Baez, Renta and the others. Leonel is a blanquito now and these are the ones he protects. His own party has had it with him. He knows it is over for him, so he will try to make his $.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Written by: dreadlocks, 26 Dec 2008 4:27 PM
From: United States
precisely, ABR. this guy is shameless..nobody questioned the constitutionality of the act.they were merely dismayed by the identity of the miscreants who were pardoned. this is the kind of crap we can expect to hear from people who are entirely bereft of morality. they are a singular disgrace to humankind
Written by: josean, 26 Dec 2008 5:28 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Maybe the revoking of pardons will be the next HUMBLE correction made the PLD!

Read on:

http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=85805
Written by: rockbottom, 26 Dec 2008 11:14 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Hey Mr. Jimenez the jails in dr are full of people that have done less harmfull things, yet they have to suffer hunger, humiliation and violence just to mention a few things.

But I guess it's better to pardon someone that help in a catastrophic colapse in the country. As long as she also had to do with the donations the LF fondation received each month.


At least we could say that it was a transparent act of quid pro quo.

burn in hell
Written by: tejano, 27 Dec 2008 11:07 AM
From: United States
Typical Dominican move......put self over people.......protect one's self interests.
Written by: maxsanpedro, 29 Dec 2008 11:21 PM
From: Netherlands
It's a shame that the President has pardoned people that were just big thieves. It's even worse that somebody defends these acts. He should come in action to pardon the poor guy that was sentenced for 20 years for stealing a chicken. Again we get prove that if you steal in the Dominican Republic you should steal big!
Written by: WalterPolo, 30 Dec 2008 1:19 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
Whatever happened to separation of powers?

We don't need no more tribunals, prosecutors or judges, if the President will override the judicial due process whenever he feels like it.

These pardons should be judicially challenged but hey, if the SunLand case was dismissed, everything else will. The legislator's intent was certainly not for dirty slimebags like Viviancita to be released without serving one single day in jail.
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