President Joe Biden announced a historic mass clemency this week, commuting the sentences of 1,500 nonviolent offenders who were previously transferred from prison to house arrest as part of a COVID pandemic measure to reduce the risk of infection in federal prisons.
But it's unclear whether the president reviewed all the cases he commuted because, according to CNN, two of them in particular were infamous public corruption cases — and the commutations have spurred outrage in affected communities.