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Don't pardon LI scammer Isaac Toussie

This time an unpardonable pardon can be stopped.

President George W. Bush realized last week that his callow and clumsily vetted pardon of developer Isaac Toussie, who was involved in a notorious Suffolk real estate scandal, was just a little too smelly. He pulled it back and is asking the Justice Department to review the facts.

Toussie pleaded guilty and served time, partly for inflating...

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