Hot Springs Woman Pardoned By President Bush

President Bush has pardoned a Hot Springs woman for a tax violation for which she was sentenced a quarter-century ago.

Margaret Ann Leggett was among 11 people on a list released Tuesday by the White House of those granted pardons by the president. According to that list, Leggett was sentenced in 1981 to three months in prison and 33 months' probation. It said she had been convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States by making false claims for income tax refunds. A telephone message left at a number listed in Leggett's name at Hot Springs was not returned Tuesday. Bush has issued 82 pardons and sentence commutations during 63 months in office, mainly to allow people who committed relatively minor offenses and served their sentences long ago to clear their names.