Word: pardons
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hugh's fumblings deal a blow to Hillary's quest for legitimacy, sure, and are redeolent of bad judgment, but probably aren't cause for a criminal investigation. The same goes for the case of the senator's campaign treasurer, William Cunningham III, who apparently helped two pardon seekers prepare their applications. He was paid about $4,000 for his work, and denies any wrongdoing or impropriety...
...House Government Reform Committee, under the leadership of longtime Clinton foe Dan Burton, began official hearings into the Marc Rich pardon on February 8. Since then, the committee has subpoenaed nearly everyone and everything involved in the Rich case - from ex-wife Denise Rich, who took the Fifth, to contribution records for the Clinton Library Foundation, which have been slow to emerge from behind a stubborn stonewall...
Sure, Clinton pardoned Marc Rich, a tax evader whose ex-wife donated tons to the Democratic Party and the Clinton library, but what kind of guy do you expect him to pardon? Republican carjackers who snubbed him in high school? Pardons by tradition are given to guilty people you like or at least served as Vice President under. And the argument that Rich didn't deserve a pardon because he never served any time is simply untrue. This guy was married for 25 years to the woman who wrote Sister Sledge's Frankie, which contains the lines "You walked...
Rich stole umpteen million dollars that he owed in taxes and got away with it, thanks to Clinton's presidential pardon, which was preceded by high-level lobbying from the likes of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and King Juan Carlos of Spain...
Clinton actually showed restraint with the pardons by not giving one to Michael Milken, Jonathan Pollard, Webb Hubbell and Ol' Dirty Bastard. And, if he had wanted, he could have fought to pardon himself. And that's the greatest pardon...