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Jack Quinn, the lawyer and lobbyist who pleaded Marc Rich's case for a last-minute pardon to Bill Clinton, made his third appearance before a Manhattan grand jury in the federal pardons investigation this week, sources tell TIME. Quinn, a former White House counsel who took the pardon request straight to his former boss, has been grilled on the extent and content of his contacts with executive branch officials and others, as well as his fee arrangements with Rich, according to people familiar with the inquiry...
...White's office has even talked with some who were not so lucky in Clinton's final days, including Michael Milken, the junk-bond pioneer of the high-flying '80s. Milken's patron on the pardon front was Ron Burkle, a generous Democratic donor, but as soon as it became known that Milken, who served nearly two years in prison and paid more than $1 billion in connection with his conviction on six counts of securities fraud, was on the list of potential clemency recipients, loud protests from securities regulators and others apparently doomed the effort. White is presumably trying...
Pressing her investigation of the Clinton pardons, U.S. Attorney MARY JO WHITE has subpoenaed the ex-President's brother Roger, requiring him to appear before a grand jury on April 20 for questioning about his role in an alleged swindle involving a Texas pair's attempt to get a pardon for a relative. ROGER CLINTON'S lawyer, Bart Williams, is asking White to give his client time to decide whether to testify or claim the Fifth, but she may be a tough sell. "They are moving speedily along, and they are not letting people have extensions," says a lawyer involved...
...allegations made by a Texas man and his mother. The two claim they were swindled by a group of men that included Roger Clinton, giving the group more than $200,000 in exchange for what was supposed to be an effort by Clinton to secure a pardon for a family member. Roger Clinton, they allege, did nothing to try to get the pardon. According to an attorney for the Texans, the two never actually met with Roger Clinton, but they maintain it was made clear to them that he was part of the group...
...granted fugitive financier Marc Rich, she has worked out an immunity deal with Rich's ex-wife Denise and has heard testimony from such witnesses as Beth Dozoretz, a friend of both Denise Rich and Bill Clinton who had at least one conversation with the President about the Rich pardon...