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To: afraidfortherepublic

This is the first I have heard of Libby being connected at all with Marc Rich.


8 posted on 07/10/2016 5:27:03 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
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To: MaxistheBest

During hearings after Rich’s pardon, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who had represented Rich from 1985 until the spring of 2000, denied that Rich had violated the tax laws, but criticized him for trading with Iran at a time when that country was holding U.S. hostages. In his letter to the New York Times, Bill Clinton explained why he pardoned Rich, noting that U.S. tax professors Bernard Wolfman of Harvard Law School and Martin Ginsburg of Georgetown University Law Center concluded that no crime was committed, and that the companies’ tax reporting position was reasonable. [New York Times, February 18, 2001][2]. In the same letter Clinton listed Libby as one of three “distinguished Republican lawyers” who supported Rich’s pardon.


10 posted on 07/10/2016 5:34:38 PM PDT by shelterguy
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