A petition urging President Obama to grant clemency for imprisoned Pastor Dino Gentile


The Office of the President
Barak H. Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W.
Washington D.C. 20510
Fax: 202-456-2461
Email: president@whitehouse.gov

Dear Mr. President,

For the last ten (10) years, thousands of people have written the White House concerning the release of Pastor Dino M. Gentile. Hundreds of Christian organizations representing millions of constituents have pleaded for his release. The people in these organizations are from various denominations, races, backgrounds, and generations. In short, this vast majority has been ignored.

We only wish you knew Pastor Gentile like we do, as we would the judge and prosecutor in his case, who have not witnessed the years of his altruistic service to people nationwide. He has fed, clothed, and housed many people, helped the homeless, youth, the elderly, the downtrodden, the sick, the mentally ill, the oppressed, drug addicts, alcoholics, distressed families, and the elderly – some even in his own home – and continues to do so as a model prisoner, despite his incarceration.

The former administration, under President George W. Bush, has ignored his request for clemency. Pastor Gentile will now have to wait another year to apply for clemency. You can change this – you can commute his service at any time without having to wait another year to reapply.

Pastor Gentile has a lovely family – two daughters who are growing up without having their loving father, who need him so badly, and a wife who is trying to rear their children without the aid and support of her husband. Many have pledged to help Pastor Dino Gentile readjust when he is released.

Why is it only at holidays or at the end of a President’s term that clemency is given? Our founding fathers did not design clemency as a lottery or private “friends and contributors” club, or to be a “dirty deed.” Clemency was designed as a cure for unfair sentences (which Pastor Gentile has received) – a cure for aberrations in justice. For over twenty years, our “advanced nation” has had no federal parole program. If the Presidency commuted one sentence per day, it would not put a dent in the 200,000 or more inmates in Federal Prison, and could do it in dignity as incentive for those without hope – model inmates, first time offenders, the elderly, all of which Pastor Gentile represents. Mr. President, people from nations like Libya shoot down planes with 200 passengers on board and say they will repent, and we grant them forgiveness; but our own citizens with far lesser crimes are left to languish without mercy.

In the case of Pastor Dino Gentile’s involvement in a Florida bank robbery, federal prosecutors offered him two (2) years if he plead guilty, but believing he was not guilty of the crime for which he was being prosecuted, he exercised his constitutional right to have a trial, and instead he received a forty-one (41) year sentence – a twenty-fold enhancement. Thirty (30) years of this enhancement was for the fact that the actual bank robber used a firearm. Pastor Gentile’s involvement in the crime was forced under duress by the actual bank robber by fear of injury and even death to him, his family, and possibly to innocent bystanders – he went along with the act, only waiting in the car for the robber with a bomb strapped to the chair behind him by the bank robber. During the crime, Pastor Gentile spoke to no one, threatened no one, had no weapons, never went onto the premises, and no one was injured – even the actual bank robber admitted to this. Pastor Gentile’s lawyer, for various dubious reasons, did not properly defend him, even to the point of leaving out evidence that would have proven his side of the story, either acquitting him or drastically reducing his sentence. Because Pastor Gentile did not plead guilty, the prosecutors sought the maximum sentencing, and using broad conspiracy and gun laws had him punished with an outrageous and unfair sentence. Authorities admitted he had a very small part in the crime.

This is not a fugitive donating money to a library. This is a model citizen, a philanthropic Pastor in Los Angeles, an national evangelist, and a youth leader since 1984, who traveled the country, changing lives, rescuing people, and literally giving the shirt off his back for anyone who was in need. This man made a mistake and they locked him up and threw away the key.

Bishops, congresspersons, senators, former federal prosecutors, pastors, laity, and citizens wrote the former Administration that was supposed to represent conservative Christians, even promising clemency would be put on “the fast track,” yet, nothing. People wrote to, and even went to the White House on Pastor Gentile’s behalf. Of the thousands who wrote on his behalf, all of them personally know Pastor Dino Gentile, and have seen his benevolent work first hand.

Articles about Pastor Gentile’s prison ministry have been published, where he continues to reach lost souls, many who upon release have written testifying of his affect on them to change there ways. All on his own, Pastor Gentile, through petitioning Habitat for Humanity to allow prisoners to build homes for the needy families, recently was successful in the FCC Lompoc implementation to contract to build sixteen homes for Habitat for Humanity. In the past, he had sent to the White House a plan signed by volunteer inmates to work on “nation building” in Afghanistan and Iraq to free up US troops there and prove that inmates can still be useful, hoping this might reduce their draconian sentences – again, no response.

When interviewed, jurors have stated that Pastor Gentile’s trial was “botched by his attorney” and were shocked to find out he received a forty-one year sentence. He as fully accepted responsibility in writing to all about his part. After serving over ten years, he still has tremendous support. Held on file are some of the most persuasive letters written in the past, along with new ones being added all the time. We know you are busy and do not want to inundate you since you have a lot to do.

Please, remember Pastor Dino Gentile and have mercy upon him. Please do not wait – he has already been waiting ten years for the scales of justice to be put in its proper balance. Please do not let Pastor Gentile be punished yet another holiday season waiting as in previous times by the last Administration. Please exercise your constitution power by granting clemency – so often used to free undeserving drug dealers, con men, and even terrorists – to release Pastor Dino Gentile immediately, reuniting him with his suffering family, church, and community.

We are praying for you and support you as the leader of our great nation and looking forward to a positive change. God bless you and God bless America.


We, the undersigned, assert our rights as citizens of the United States in urging that President Barak H. Obama exercise his constitutional power of clemency – so often used to free undeserving drug dealers, con men, and even terrorists - to pardon Pastor Dino Gentile immediately, reuniting him with his suffering family, church, and community.





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