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...Clarendon Ltd., the American subsidiary of Swiss-based Marc Rich & Co. AG, pleaded guilty to generating at least $50 million in illegal oil profits during 1980 and 1981 and then dodging taxes on the money by transferring the earnings overseas. Last week's settlement will allow the two companies to resume operating in the U.S. But criminal charges of tax evasion, fraud and racketeering still stand against Rich and his partner, Pincus ("Pinky") Green. The two, both 50, fled from New York City to their headquarters in Zug, Switzerland, in September 1983, only a few weeks before federal investigators...
...contempt fine. Before payments were suspended two weeks ago, Rich's company had paid $3.8 million in fines. In an apparent ploy to escape further fines, Rich and Green in early August secretly sold their U.S. subsidiary to other officers in the firm and changed its name to Clarendon...
...company's troubles have become public, some customers say they are shying away. The firm has changed its name in the U.S. to Clarendon Ltd. and has taken down the Marc Rich signs around its Fifth Avenue offices. Rich himself has moved out of his Park Avenue apartment, and is believed to be working out of the Zug offices. Two weeks ago, Clarendon sent out notices telling its customers it would conduct business as usual during the freeze, but since then Judge Sand has prohibited those reassurances on pain of further contempt citations...
...North Clarendon...
...Clarendon Court that two murder attempts were supposedly made. The prosecution alleges that in December of 1979 and again in December of 1980, Von Bülow gave his wife, who suffered from chronic low blood sugar, shots of insulin, the hormone that helps metabolize sugar. Excess insulin would have dropped her blood sugar dangerously low. Sunny was hospitalized for a few days the first time and permanently the second; she is now in the Harkness Pavilion at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. The seed of scandal was planted when Sunny's maid of 23 years, Maria Schrallhammer...