Word: marc
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...like bolstering municipal services, improving conditions in Toulouse's immigrant neighborhoods and giving citizens more say in city affairs. "Before this, I never got involved in politics beyond casting a vote, because I just didn't think I could make a difference in an insider's game," computer technician Marc Bories, 50, tells his Motivé-e-s colleagues at the Puerto Habana meeting. "In Toulouse today, we in Motivé-e-s are on the brink of making a real difference. That's something new." Not entirely, since citizens' movements have arisen elsewhere before-though none marching to quite...
...last day in office, Clinton gave legal immunity to fugitive billionaire Marc Rich. Rich, who has been living on the lam in Switzerland for the past 17 years, had been wanted by the FBI on 51 counts of tax evasion and "trading with the enemy" in what was deemed the biggest tax swindle in U.S. history, valued at over $48 million. Ever since, he has been living a rather comfortable life in his multi-million-dollar waterfront villa in Switzerland--where he was free from extradition...
...send the pardon petition that Quinn filed to the Justice Department, as per normal procedure, for reasons that have never been adequately explained. A furious U.S. Attorney, Mary Jo White, said her office had been "bypassed" by the Clinton White House. "We were totally unaware that pardons for Marc Rich were even under consideration," she said...
...disappear under a freak mud slide. The debris hurtled by so fast that the New York Times editorial page seemed to run out of synonyms for disgust, revulsion and abuse. Jimmy Carter, the perfect ex-President, broke the cardinal rule of the brotherhood and called Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich "disgraceful." Even Terry McAuliffe, the former President's friend, said that decision had been wrong. Perhaps worst of all, there seemed to be no end to the bodies that might float down the swollen river. Congressional investigators subpoenaed another Clinton fund raiser, Beth Dozoretz, to tell all she knows...
...PARTING BLOT (01/20/01): On his final morning in the White House, President Clinton grants 140 presidential pardons and 36 commutations. Marc Rich, who has been living as a fugitive in Switzerland since his 1983 indictment on tax evasion and fraud, is among those receiving pardons. The voluminous list also names several other controversial figures, including convicted drug trafficker Carlos Vignali and notorious snake oil salesman Glenn Braswell...