Posted on 07/02/2007 6:26:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The former wife of fugitive financier Marc Rich contributed about $400,000 to the Clinton presidential library. This revelation is likely to deepen suspicions of congressional investigators looking into the controversial pardon given to Rich by President Clinton — that Denise Rich's financing of Clinton political and personal projects influenced his decision to give amnesty to her ex-husband.
The sources said Denise Rich gave money to the library after consulting with 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.
Only her contribution to Clinton's library remained a secret. Officers of the $150 million project have refused to divulge their funding sources, but Denise Rich's lawyer, Carol Elder Bruce, fueled speculation when she told House investigators, as they recalled it, that her client gave an "enormous sum of money" to it. The GOP probers want to know if any of the funds originated with Marc Rich and asked Denise Rich to answer questions for a Government Reform Committee hearing Thursday.
She refused to respond, invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Reached Thursday night, Bruce declined to comment on the library gift, but noted a statement by her client's publicist that said Bruce told House investigators that Rich had "contributed generously to the party, the candidates and the presidential library."
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I wouldn’t be surprised if most of Clinton’s presidential pardons had to do with money.
Just a coincidence. /s
The Presidents recent decision to commute the sentence of Scooter Libby is the smartest thing he has done in the last year. Now if he would only get his Attorney General to investigate where the million went that Fitzgerald spent on this facre, he might even se his polls go up.
Like all that Saudi money for the Jimmah Cahtah Centah.
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