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...hearings chaired, just for old times' sake, by Representative Dan Burton, of Who Murdered Vince Foster? fame. Clinton, with his eyes wide open, had his reasons for pardoning Rich--like the near half a million Denise Rich gave to his library--but the hot lights were trained on Jack Quinn--closer to Gore than to Clinton--and former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, who was accused by the committee of passing on the Rich pardon in hopes of landing the top spot at Justice in a Gore Administration. As usual, the buck doesn't stop at Clinton...
Dozoretz told her ski buddy in Aspen--Rich's ex-wife Denise--who then called Avner Azulay, the head of Rich's foundation in Israel. Azulay sent an e-mail to Rich's Washington lawyer, Jack Quinn, who had been lobbying Clinton in the first place. Denise Rich, the e-mail said, "thinks [Clinton] sounded very positive but that 'we have to keep praying...
...doubts got around fast--maybe a little too fast. Later that day, Rich's New York lawyer, ROBERT FINK, sent a worried e-mail to fellow members of the Rich legal team, an e-mail that became public at last week's congressional hearing. Fink's warning: "[JACK QUINN] said that the SEC knows of the request and for some reason opposed it." Leave it to Quinn, a former White House counsel who personally lobbied Clinton for the pardon, to jump on a hot tip that might help his client at the last minute...
...Clinton presidential library fund. She also lobbied heavily for Marc's pardon. Investigators want to know if Denise's contributions led to a direct quid pro quo exchange for her ex-husband's pardon. Clinton has denied any connection, saying he relied solely on the information provided by Jack Quinn (former White House counsel and Rich's current lawyer) when he was weighing the pardon request...
...Paul Quinn-Judge: All the signals are that the Russians feel that this is a good opportunity to at the very least restore a very warm relation with the leader of the Ukraine. Their big hope is that Kuchma can hold on to power, and that Russia can restore its big-brother status in the former Soviet territory. Because the opposition is even more hostile to Russia than Kuchma has been...