Obama’s First Pardons Involve Drug Offenses, Coin Mutilation

President Obama has made his first set of presidential pardons–and leave it to Fox’s Shepard Smith to mine the list for the funny.

According to the Justice Department, nine individuals have had their offenses erased by the president’s pen, including four men convicted of drug charges, one man sentenced in 1960 to “felony liquor law violation” and a man sentenced in 1972 to illegal possession of government property.

But then there’s Ronald Lee Foster of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. As Smith puts it:


“Little bit of breaking news coming in. You know the president just took off from Afghanistan and they’ve sent us word now that he has granted his first pardons. Nine pardons granted today, no familiar names at all on the list and no really outrageous charges. Four of those convicted of cocaine charges, some other drug charges, conspiracy charges. I think the most interesting one is from Beaver Falls, PA. Ronald Lee Foster, convicted of mutilating coins. For that he got a year’s probation and a twenty dollar fine. And today, Ronald Lee Foster got a pardon.”

Watch it here, from Fox News: