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Harder to explain away was Senate testimony by Justice Department official Roger Adams suggesting that the White House had scrambled in the predawn hours of Inauguration Day to create a paper trail that made it appear that the Rich pardon had gone through normal channels. Adams suggested the White House even tried to slide it by Justice, portraying Rich as a jet setter "living abroad" and leaving out the detail that he was also a fugitive...
Before the pardon, Rich appeared to have it all--a mansion in a Swiss village, a global business and a helicopter to take him skiing where no lift could reach. But if he left Switzerland, Israel or Spain, he risked getting bounced to New York to face criminal tax-evasion charges from 1983. Bounty hunters and U.S. Marshals set traps for him, and Rich missed his father's funeral--and later his daughter's when she died of leukemia in 1996. That's why, for the two decades after he fled the U.S., Rich has been trying...
Rich's empire has flourished because of his ability to operate below radar. But the pardon he wished for has magnified his every move, and the relationships he has nurtured have begun to sour. "A lot of people are distancing themselves from Rich," says Lang. Swiss officials are investigating whether Rich's company has complied with laws against money laundering. The longest trade of Rich's career may turn out to be the most foolish...
...Marc Rich's lawyer, Jack Quinn, delivers a phone book-size pardon petition for Rich and his partner, Pincus Green, to White House counsel Beth Nolan. The petition includes more than 20 letters of support, including one from the mayor of Jerusalem and another from the maestro of the Israeli Philharmonic. (Rich's foundations have contributed some $200 million to Israeli and Jewish causes.) Nolan does not forward the petition to the Justice Department...
Former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres calls Bill Clinton to lobby for Rich's pardon. During a conversation with Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, already lobbying for the pardon of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, pushes for Rich's pardon, according to a Quinn e-mail...