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...What about Washington Democratic fund-raiser and socialite Beth Dozoretz, whose name has come up in connection with the case...
...Beth Dozoretz, fund-raiser and FOB, was, according to TIME, skiing when she heard that Clinton was "impressed" by Rich's case for a pardon. Dozoretz eagerly told skiing partner Denise Rich about the development, who called Marc Rich's supporters in Israel, then Washington. Dozoretz is also a big contributor to the Clinton presidential library fund. As in Denise Rich's case, congressional investigators want to know if there's a trail leading straight from Dozoretz's bountiful checkbook to Clinton's signature on Marc Rich's pardon...
...sources said Denise Rich gave money to the library after consulting with Beth Dozoretz, a close Clinton friend and major Democratic fund-raiser who discussed the pardon of Marc Rich with the President nine days before he granted it. The timing of the library contribution and its proximity to the pardon were not immediately obtainable...
...Harvard Alford Professor of Philosophy Thomas M. Scanlon Jr.--who used to teach at Princeton--says she's a proven fund-raiser, and says he thinks it would be a "big sacrifice" for her to take either presidency because she loves teaching so much...
...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...