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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 24 > Guilty of aiding Israel in ’48; pardoned in ’08

Guilty of aiding Israel in ’48; pardoned in ’08

Pardon among 19 Bush gave Tuesday

By Deb Riechmann / The Bulletin
December 24, 2008

WASHINGTON — In a gesture of forgiveness for a decades-old offense, President George W. Bush on Tuesday granted a pardon posthumously to a man who broke the law to supply aircraft to Jews fighting in Israel’s 1948 war of independence.

Charles Winters, a Miami businessman....

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