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How might Toussie clarify the status of his "revoked" pardon?

By Douglas A. Berman

The Daily News is reporting here that the White House is saying that President Bush won't act further in the case of Isaac Robert Toussie, the real estate developer to whom President Bush last week first granted a pardon, and then sought to take it back.  Here are details from the piece: President Bush's embarrassing pardon of Isaac Toussie won't be reinstated before he leaves office this month, the White House confirmed Friday.  After granting ? and then reversing in a historic first by a President ? the Brooklyn real estate scammer's pardon for a 2003 fraud conviction, Bush plans to leave the matter to his successor... Bush spokesman Tony Fratto told the Daily News, "The President will not consider the Toussie pardon unless and until it has been reviewed by the Office of the Pardon Attorney" at the Justice Department...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 02, 2009 (boomark / email).