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To: Kartographer

He’s not this Marc Rich huckster that we all remember so well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich

“In a February 18, 2001 op-ed essay in The New York Times, Clinton (by then out of office) explained why he had pardoned Rich, noting that U.S. tax professors Bernard Wolfman of the Harvard Law School and Martin Ginsburg of Georgetown University Law Center had concluded that no crime had been committed, and that Rich’s companies’ tax-reporting position had been reasonable.[19] In the same essay, Clinton listed Lewis “Scooter” Libby as one of three “distinguished Republican lawyers” who supported a pardon for Rich. (Libby himself later received a presidential commutation for his involvement in the Plame affair.) During Congressional hearings after Rich’s pardon, 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.[35]

On November 1, 2016, the FBI released documents related to the pardon, stating it was an FOIA release.[36]”


4 posted on 04/21/2017 12:06:51 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

Mick not Marc.


6 posted on 04/21/2017 8:01:06 AM PDT by oldbrowser (The Agenda Media no longer has a shred of credibility.)
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