In addition to these commutations, Biden is also pardoning three people — including a couple more drug offenders who’ve since been released from prison and gone on to become upstanding citizens.
The third pardon is a bit more noteworthy … Biden is honoring Abraham Bolden Sr., a former U.S. Secret Service agent who was imprisoned after he was charged and convicted with attempting to sell a copy from a SS file in the ’60s.
Bolden — who was the first Black man to serve on a presidential detail back then — got a raw deal, according to the DOJ. Key witnesses who were part of his initial trial apparently copped to lying at prosecutors’ request … and Bolden was also denied a new trial.
He served several years in federal custody, and although he’s out already … Biden’s scrubbing his record clean. Bolden has always maintained his innocence, insisting he was targeted because he was trying to expose racist practices within the government.