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Cash from Toussies is Coleman’s second brush with pardon scandals in six weeks

By Chris Steller | 12.25.08 | 7:13 pm

U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman received $2,300 from the family of Isaac Robert Toussie. Toussie, who is convicted of fraud, had his Dec. 23 presidential pardon revoked the next day by President Bush. Bush’s reversal…