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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 1048527, member: 4910&quot;]The CNN Article now has details of the crime:</p><p><br /></p><p>For 42 years, Ronald Foster didn&#039;t know he had a felony</p><p>conviction for cutting up pennies.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1963, he was earning $82 a month as a Marine at</p><p>Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, when he says he and 16</p><p>others hatched a scheme to cut pennies into dimes so they</p><p>could use them in vending machines.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the Secret Service caught them. They were marched</p><p>into a courtroom on base, where his commanding officer</p><p>entered a plea on their behalf to mutilation of coins, he says.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then, in 2005, he applied for a gun permit and found out</p><p>for the first time he had a felony conviction. He applied for</p><p>a presidential pardon, which was officially granted Friday,</p><p>in the first round of pardons during Obama&#039;s administration.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/12/03/obama.pardons/index.html?hpt=T2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/12/03/obama.pardons/index.html?hpt=T2" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/12/03/obama.pardons/index.html?hpt=T2</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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