Wanna know how record producer/cocaine smuggler John Forté got a presidential pardon, while his fellow prisoners must continue to languish in a Fort Dix, New Jersey, prison? Favors! Such huge favors from a labor-hating Mormon who wouldn't give a shit about Forté if he weren't friends with wealthy, famous white people like Carly Simon.
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In some completely WTF? news, President Bush yesterday commuted the 14-year prison sentence of former Fugee associate John Forté. Forté has been in jail since 2000, when he was arrested at a New Jersey airport in possession of $1.4 million worth of liquid cocaine.
Hey listen, no one said George Bush couldn't relate to a little nose candy related whoops. Although pretty sure that liquid cocaine is an energy drink, not a drug.
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