President Grants Clemency to Two N.J. Residents
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
WASHINGTON -- Two New Jersey residents were among the 231 individuals granted clemency Monday by President Barack Obama, who is using the final weeks of his presidency to reduce the criminal penalties imposed on nonviolent offenders. Obama pardoned Edward John Hartman of Westampton Township, who in 1986 was convicted of conspiracy for submitting false and fraudulent…