The U.S. Department of Justice has replaced the embattled head of the pardon office amid a new push to review and expedite clemency applications related to drug crimes, Deputy Attorney General James Cole said today.
Deborah Leff will take over the Office of the Pardon Attorney from Ronald Rodgers, who has been in the post since 2008 and was the subject of a highly critical report in December 2012 from the Justice Department’s inspector general.
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