Posted on 01/19/2016 3:51:09 PM PST by george76
on Jan. 20, 2001, his last day in office, Bill Clinton issued a pardon for international fugitive Marc Rich. It would become perhaps the most condemned official act of Clinton's political career. A New York Times editorial called it "a shocking abuse of presidential power." The usually Clinton-friendly New Republic noted it "is often mentioned as Exhibit A of Clintonian sliminess."
Congressman Barney Frank added, "It was a real betrayal by Bill Clinton of all who had been strongly supportive of him to do something this unjustified. It was contemptuous."
Marc Rich was wanted for a list of charges going back decades. He had traded illegally with America's enemies including Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran, where he bought about $200 million worth of oil while revolutionaries allied with Khomeini held 53 American hostages in 1979.
Rich made a large part of his wealth, approximately $2 billion between 1979 and 1994, selling oil to the apartheid regime in South Africa when it faced a UN embargo. He did deals with Khadafy's Libya, Milosevic's Yugoslavia, Kim Il Sung's North Korea, Communist dictatorships in Cuba and the Soviet Union itself. Little surprise that he was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List.
Facing prosecution by Rudy Giuliani in 1983, Rich fled to Switzerland and lived in exile.
What bothered so many was that Clinton's clemency to Rich reeked of payoff. In the run-up to the presidential pardon, the financier's ex-wife Denise had donated $450,000 to the fledgling Clinton Library and "over $1 million to Democratic campaigns in the Clinton era."
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Rich's business partners, lawyers, advisers and friends have showered millions of dollars on the Clintons in the decade and a half following the scandal.
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Words to respond fail me. It is probably for the best.
What was Bill getting from her? You have to wonder.
Rumors are that he got more than cash from Denise....
Sanctions and embargoes are big money makers for the people who are above the law. That is why they are so popular with the masters of the universe.
I wonder how she got Bill’s attention...
Way too old for bj.
The irony is that Rich’s pardon from Bill Clinton didn’t do him much good before he died in 2013. A presidential pardon only applied to Federal charges, and Rich apparently faced a number of state charges that would have landed him in jail if he ever came back here anyway.
don’t think she was on pedo island during Bills visits.
less han 40 years his junior, not Bills style
Wonder? LOL, only if you just fell off the turnip wagon chewing a hayseed.
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