By Lee Logan, Times Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
The Wesley Chapel man who received a rare presidential pardon this week called his earlier felony a "youthful indiscretion" that happened after he got mixed up in the wrong crowd.
He was 31 and had just started a small business three years earlier. His daughter was nearly 5. He said he made a dumb decision that he still regrets.
"A friend of a friend told me how I could make a lot of money if I wanted to help out in a drug operation with some marijuana," he said. "I said, 'Sure, for a bunch of money I'll give it a shot.'"
Dennis Bulin, the owner of a nationally recognized scuba equipment company based in Zephyrhills, was not eager to talk about the offense. He refused several interview requests from the Times and other media outlets. But he agreed ...