Cuomo issues first three pardons of his administration

... any pardons since he took office in 2011. Governors typically issue some each year. Gerardo Alvarez, 49, of Lake Peekskill, Putnam County, was pardoned as the result of a 2002 conviction for seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled ...

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