Name:   GoneFishin - Subject:   Wife Seeks Help Date:   4/9/2020 5:48:29 PM (updated 4/9/2020 5:59:06 PM)

Can't understand why elected officials play silly games with campaign funds.

From the Hill

"Pattie Stockman, wife of former Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas), asked President Trump to pardon him amid the coronavirus pandemic so his 10-year sentence for fraud and other white-collar crimes  “does not become a death penalty.”    

Stockman, a conservative firebrand, was convicted in April 2018 of 23 felonies for allegedly misusing $1.25 million in campaign funds for personal expenses. The 63-year-old is serving his sentence in a federal prison in Beaumont, Texas. 

“My pleas are reasonable. Keeping an aging, physically vulnerable, non-violent, non-sex crime convicted inmate in prison during a pandemic is cruel. My husband is not a danger to society. At a minimum, I want Steve to shelter at home so that he’s not sent to me in a body bag in a few weeks,” Patti Stockman said.

Patti Stockman is not seeking a temporary release of prisoners, but a pardon for her husband specifically."