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Isaac Toussie's father had his own conviction tossed

January 4, 2009 By dan.janison@newsday.com ,Dan Janison dan.janison@newsday.com

President George W. Bush's first-ever retraction of a pardon - for convicted real-estate scammer Isaac Toussie - has the potential to become a defining legal precedent. If so, Toussie, 37, will have found the weirdest way yet to follow in the footsteps of his businessman father Robert Toussie - who long ago had the U.S. Supreme Court void his own conviction for having failed to register for the...

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