One of the last things Joe Biden did as President of the United States was complete a deal to bring home the son of a Louisville family who was held hostage by the Taliban. Ryan Corbett was freed Monday after two years of negotiations by the Biden Administration,
In an executive grant of clemency President Biden granted a full and unconditional pardon to Jerry Lundergan, the former head of the state Democratic Party
A jury convicted Lundergan in 2019 of conspiring to illegally contribute to his daughter's U.S. Senate campaign.
Jerry Lundergan was convicted of illegally funneling contributions to his daughter's failed 2014 U.S. Senate campaign.
The son of a Louisville man who was being held by the Taliban has been freed as part of a prisoner exchange.In the final hours of Joe Biden's presidency, the Taliban agreed to swap Ryan Corbett and William McKenty for one Taliban member serving a life sentence in the U.
The deal was struck for Khan Mohammad, a member of the Taliban serving two life sentences in a U.S. prison on 'narco-terrorism charges.'
The previous administration’s Department of Justice and Louisville signed the agreement last month, but it has not yet been approved by a federal judge.
There were more than two dozen people from Kentucky charged in the insurrection before President Trump issued pardons.
Former President Joe Biden pardoned Kentucky Democratic Party Leader Jerry Lundergan.Lundergan was sentenced to 21 months in prison after being convicted of a scheme to funnel tho
President Trump was expected to sign new executive orders focused on the military, including to reinstate troops booted for refusing COVID-19 vaccines, assess transgender forces and further outline new rollbacks in diversity programs.
With actions big and small, Trump has spent his first days in office pushing the levers of government – and his unique powers as commander in chief – to target his perceived political enemies both inside and outside the government.
His focus has been clamping down on immigration, which he described as his “No. 1 issue” shortly after taking the oath of office.