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WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Clinton today granted 16 pardons and five commutations. Attached is a list of those persons.

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PARDONS GRANTED BY PRESIDENT CLINTON

Name                     District           Sentenced        Offense

Carl Stanley Gilbreath   N.D. Georgia 1971 Interstate transportation of a stolen motor vehicle, 18 U.S.C. 2312.

Claudette Dean Goodson   E.D. N.Carolina 1986 Aiding and abetting embezzlement of government funds, 18 U.S.C. 641, 2.

Dane Robert Hessling   S.D. Ohio 1987 Conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, 21 U.S.C. 846, and distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1).

Elwood Dwight Hopkins   D. New Jersey 1962 1. Theft of government property, 18 U.S.C. 641.

2. Mutilation of coins, 18 U.S.C. 331.

Thomas Vernon Jones   D. Wyoming 1989 Filing a false tax return, 26 U.S.C. 7206(1).

Madison Dow Kimball, Jr.   W.D. Arkansas 1983 Bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. 2113(a).

Cynthia Lou LeBlanc   N.D. Texas 1978 Conspiracy to distribute and possess methaqualone, 21 U.S.C. 846.

Peter Thomas Lipps    C.D. California 1981 Possession of counterfeit government obligation, 18 U.S.C. 472.

Name                     District          Sentenced        Offense

John Carroll Michiaels   N.D. Indiana 1989 Purloining and converting property of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and aiding and abetting therein, 18 U.S.C. 641 and 2.

Richard Edwin Sacchi   M.D. Florida 1989 Conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute, 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1) and 846.

Horace Carroll Smith   D. South Carolina 1992 Conspiracy to violate the federal securities laws, 18 U.S.C. 371 and 2.

Tammy Lawan Tallant   E.D. Oklahoma 1991 Misprision of a felony,

18 U.S.C. 4.

Carl Dennis Waren   W.D. Arkansas 1980 Interstate transportation of stolen motor vehicles, 18 U.S.C. 2314.

Robert Alexander Warr   D. South Carolina 1982 False statements, 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 2.

James H. Wetzel, Jr.   E.D. Louisiana 1981 Conspiracy to distribute cocaine, 18 U.S.C. 371, 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1).

Diane Mae Moseman Zeman   E.D. New York 1981 Use of a telephone to facilitate importation of hashish oil, 21 U.S.C. 843(b).

COMMUTATIONS GRANTED BY PRESIDENT CLINTON

Name                     District          Sentenced         Offense

Louise Cain House E.D. Missouri 1994 Engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise; 21 U.S.C. 848.

Name                     District          Sentenced         Offense

Shawndra Lenese Mills   E.D. Kentucky 1993 Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance;21 U.S.C. 846.

Serena Denise Nunn   D. Minnesota 1990 Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, aiding and abetting the attempt to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(A), and 846, and 18 U.S.C. 2.

Alain Orozco, N.D. Georgia 1990 Conspiracy to manufacture,

a.k.a. Allan Jene Velasquez   distribute, and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base and to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, 21 U.S.C. 846 and 841; making a false statement; 18 U.S.C. 1001.

Amy Ralston Pofahl   W.D. Texas 1992 Conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, 21 U.S.C. 846; conspiracy to import a controlled substance, 21 U.S.C. 963; and money laundering, 18 U.S.C. 1956 (a)(1)(B)(i).