List of people pardoned by Barack Obama

This is a list of people pardoned by President Barack Obama. As granted by the Constitution, U.S. Presidents have the power to grant clemency in one or more of the following ways: the ability to grant a full pardon, to commute a sentence, or to rescind a fine.

Definitions:

A pardon is an executive order vacating a conviction.
A commutation is the mitigation of the sentence of someone currently serving a sentence for a crime pursuant to a conviction, without vacating the conviction itself.

Pardons and commutations[edit]

This is the list of people pardoned or granted clemency by a United States president, ordered by date of pardon or commutation.

Pardons[edit]

Date Pardoned	Name	Court or Home City	Sentencing Date	Sentence	Offense
December 3, 2010	James Bernard Banks	United States District Court for the District of Utah	1972	2 years probation	Illegal possession of government property
	Russell James Dixon	United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia	1960	2 years probation	Liquor law violation
	Laurens Dorsey	United States District Court for the District of New Jersey	1998	5 years probation; $71,000 restitution	Conspiracy to defraud by making false statements to the Food and Drug Administration
	Ronald Lee Foster	United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina	1963	Probation; $20 fine	Mutilation of coins
	Timothy James Gallagher	United States District Court for the District of Arizona	1982	3 years probation	Cocaine possession and conspiracy to distribute
	Roxane Kay Hettinger	United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa	1986	30 days in jail; 3 years probation	Conspiracy to distribute cocaine
	Edgar Leopold Kranz Jr.	General court-martial convened at Hickam Air Force Base	1994	24 months confinement; reduction in pay	Cocaine use, adultery and bouncing checks
	Floretta Leavy	United States District Court for the District of Kansas	1984	366 days in prison; 3 years probation	Drug offenses
	Scoey Lathaniel Morris	United States District Court for the Western District of Texas	1991	3 years probation; $1,200 fine	Counterfeiting offense.
May 20, 2010	Randy Eugene Dyer	United States District Court for the Western District of Washington	1975	5 years in prison	Conspiracy to import marijuana (hashish), conspiracy to remove baggage from the custody and control of the U.S. Customs Service and convey false information concerning an attempt to damage a civil aircraft
	Danny Alonzo Levitz	United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana	1980	2 years of probation, $400 fine	Conspiracy
	Michael Ray Neal	United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia	1991	6 months in prison, 3 years of supervised release conditioned on 6 months of home confinement, $2,500 fine	Manufacture, assembly, modification and distribution of equipment for unauthorized decryption of satellite cable programming
	Edwin Alan North	United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana	1980	6 months of unsupervised probation	Transfer of a firearm without payment of transfer tax
	Allen Edward Peratt	United States District Court for the District of South Dakota	1990	30 months in prison, 5 years of supervised release	Conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
	Christine Marie Rossiter	United States District Court for the District of Nebraska	1992	3 years of probation conditioned on performance of 500 hours of community service	Conspiracy to distribute less than 50 kilograms of marijuana
	Patricia Ann Weinzatl	United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin	2001	3 years of probation, $5,000 fine	Structuring transactions to evade reporting requirements
	Bobby Gerald Wilson	United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia	1985	3½ months in prison, 5 years of probation conditioned on performance of 300 hours of community service, $400 fine	Aiding and abetting the possession and sale of illegal American alligator hides (Lacey Act)
November 21, 2011	Lesley Claywood Berry Jr.	United States District Court for the District of Minnesota	1988	3 years in prison	Conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute, and distribute marijuana
	Dennis George Bulin	United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama	1987	5 years probation and $20,000 fine	Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute in excess of 1,000 pounds of marijuana
	Ricky Dale Collett	United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky	2002	1 year of probation conditioned on 60 days of home detention	Aiding and abetting in the manufacture of 61 marijuana plants
	Martin Kaprelian	United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois	1984	9 years in prison, 5 years of probation	Conspiracy to transport stolen property in interstate commerce, transporting stolen property, concealing stolen property
	Thomas Paul Ledford	United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee	1995	1 year of probation conditioned on performance of 100 hours of community service	Conducting and directing an illegal gambling business
March 1, 2013	Robert Leroy Bebee	Rockville, Maryland		Two years probation	Misprision (concealment) of a felony
	James Anthony Bordinaro	Gloucester, Massachusetts		12 months imprisonment, three years supervised release and a $55,000 find	Conspiracy to restrain, suppress, and eliminate competition in violation of the Sherman Act; conspiracy to submit false statements
	Kelli Elisabeth Collins	Harrison, Arkansas		Five years probation	Aiding and abetting a wire fraud
	Edwin Hardy Futch, Jr.	Pembroke, Georgia		Five years probation, $2,399.72 restitution	Theft from an interstate shipment
	Cindy Marie Griffith	Moyock, North Carolina		Two years probation with 100 hours of community service	Distribution of satellite cable television decryption devices
	Roy Eugene Grimes, Sr.	Athens, Tennessee		18 months probation	Falsely altering a United States postal money order, uttering, and publishing a forged and altered money order with intent to defraud
	Jon Christopher Kozeliski	Decatur, Illinois		One year of probation with six months of home confinement, $10,000 fine	Conspiracy to traffic counterfeit goods
	Jimmy Ray Mattison	Anderson, South Carolina		Three years probation	Conspiracy to transport and cause the transportation of altered securities in interstate commerce,; transporting and causing the transportation of altered securities in interstate commerce
	An Na Peng	Honolulu, Hawaii		Two years probation, $2,000 fine	Conspiracy to defraud the Immigration and Naturalization Service
	Michael John Petri	Montrose, South Dakota		Five years imprisonment, three years supervised release	Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of a controlled substance (cocaine)
	Karen Alicia Ragee	Decatur, Illinois		One year of probation with six months of home confinement, $2,500 fine	Conspiracy to traffic counterfeit goods
	Jamari Salleh	Alexandria, Virginia		Four years probation, $5,000 fine, $5,900 restitution	False claims upon and against the United States
	Alfor Sharkey	Omaha, Nebraska		Three years probation with 100 hours of community service, $2,750 restitution	Unauthorized acquisition of food stamps
	Donald Barrie Simon, Jr.	Chattanooga, Tennessee		Two years imprisonment, three years probation	Aiding and abetting in the theft of an interstate shipment
	Lynn Marie Stanek	Tualatin, Oregon		Six months in jail, five years probation conditioned on residence in a community treatment center for a period not to exceed one year	Unlawful use of a communication facility to distribute cocaine
	Larry Wayne Thornton	Forsyth, Georgia		Four years probation	Possession of an unregistered firearm; possession of a firearm without a serial number
	Donna Kaye Wright	Friendship, Tennessee		54 days imprisonment, three years probation conditioned on performance of six hours of community service per week	Embezzlement and misapplication of bank funds

Commutations[edit]

November 21, 2011
Name	Court	Sentenced	Time served	Offense	Terms of commutation
Diane B.	United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois	2001	262 months (about 22 years) in prison, 8 years of supervised release, $1,750 fine	Distribution of cocaine base	Sentence expired on December 21, 2011, leaving intact and in effect the eight-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.