Former Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Conahan, who gained notoriety for wrongfully imprisoning juveniles in the Kids-for-Cash scandal, is one of nearly 1,500 inmates whose sentences President Joe …
Well that's a fucking oops by Biden. Most of the clemencies on today's list were ~1500 nonviolent drug offenders who deserved leniency. How the fuck did Conahan manage to slip in with them?
Behind the Bastards did a series on this guy. TL;DR the guy deserves a hell of a lot worse than life in prison.
1,500 cases is a lot of reading. I don't think Biden read all of those. He has someone do it for him. While I am not saying this it what happened because I have absolutely no evidence, it's possible that someone in his administration that setup these commutations slipped the judge in as a favor.
This was either a massive lapse of bureaucracy, or it was a massive lapse in judgement. Either way, in my opinion it is one of Biden's biggest mistakes in his entire four years of governance.