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...Rich pardon--and especially the fact that Clinton granted it without consulting the Justice Department--that has generated the most heat on Capitol Hill. Though the pardon can't be revoked, Representative Dan Burton, the Indiana Republican and longtime Clinton critic who chairs the House Government Reform Committee, has already started gathering documents for a hearing; Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle says it may be time to re-examine the President's pardon power. Even by Clinton's own reasoning, which he voiced in a speech two days before the pardon, Rich did not seem to qualify. "Most of these...
...Clinton's, yet again, is dirty. To many observers, Republican and Democrat alike, the pardon was simply outrageous--the latest egregious example of Clinton's moral turpitude. Rich's ex-wife, New York City socialite Denise Rich, just happens to be a major Clinton donor and fund raiser who has raked in millions of dollars for the Democratic Party during the past eight years. Rich's lawyer in the pardon case, Jack Quinn, was once Clinton's general counsel. Quinn personally lobbied Clinton, and various dignitaries--including, sources tell TIME, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and King Juan Carlos...
...Thanksgiving 2000, Quinn had started a new game. During a meeting at the Justice Department on Nov. 21, he notified Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder of his plan to file a pardon petition with the White House. He asked Holder if he wanted a copy. Holder, who assumed that the White House would forward the petition to the Justice Department's pardon attorney for review, as was customary, said he personally did not. On Dec. 11, Quinn delivered the massive document, about the size of a phone book, which TIME has seen, to the office of White House Counsel Beth...
Until their pardon last week, Marc Rich and his partner, Pincus Green, faced a truly impressive array of charges. The rogue commodity traders were indicted in 1983 on 51 counts of tax evasion, racketeering, conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and trading with the enemy. Had they not fled to Switzerland, each might have been sentenced to years in prison. The principal allegation against them concerned a scheme from 1980 and 1981, in which their U.S. company made nearly $100 million by selling oil at several times the government-controlled price then in effect. The indictment claimed that Rich's firm...
...arguing for the pardon, Rich's American attorneys contended that, at most, Rich should have faced civil, not criminal, charges. They pointed out that many of the allegations leveled at their client could not be brought today under Justice Department policy and current law. Other U.S. companies that also ran afoul of price controls either never faced charges or were allowed to reach a settlement without undergoing criminal proceedings...