An Illinois man who President John F Kennedy chose as the first Black Secret Service agent to serve on a presidential security detail became the first recipient of a presidential pardon from Joe Biden on Tuesday as the White House unveiled a series of actions meant to further Mr Biden’s criminal justice reform agenda.
Mr Biden issued the first pardon of his administration to former Special Agent Abraham Bolden, who had spent 39 months in prison in the 1960s after a jury convicted him of soliciting a bribe in exchange for providing a Secret Service investigative file to a counterfeiter who he’d been investigating.
