White House Wakes Up; Revokes Pardon Of NY Developer Who Scammed HUD; Pop Donated $28.5K To RNC

Bloomberg News reports:

• President George W. Bush withdrew a pardon he granted a day earlier to a New York real-estate developer after the White House learned his father made the maximum $28,500 donation to the Republican National Committee months earlier.(1)

• Isaac Robert Toussie of Brooklyn, one of 19 people pardoned [Tuesday], pleaded guilty in 2001 to using false documents to get federally insured mortgages and in 2002 to mail fraud for selling land to Suffolk County at twice its appraised value.

For more, see Bush Cancels Pardon After Campaign Donation Disclosed.

See also:

• New York Daily News: President Bush yanks pardon of housing scammer Isaac Toussie,
• New York Post: The Pardon's Over As Bush Reverses Call,
• New York Daily News: Dream homes of Toussie victims were nothing but nightmares,
• Go here for yesterday's post on this story: Presidential Pardon Purchase Possible As Bush Gives Pass To Developer Convicted In Mortgage Scam Screwing HUD While Daddy Gives $28K To RNC.

(1) According to the story, his father, Robert Toussie, also of Brooklyn, contributed $28,500 to the Republican National Committee on April 25 and the maximum $2,300 to Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign five days later. In October, he made $2,300 donations to two Republican U.S. senators in close races, Norm Coleman of Minnesota and Gordon Smith of Oregon. The Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based research group, has no records of any earlier donations by Robert Toussie.