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Marc Rich tied to Iraq oil
New York Daily News ^ | 12/02/04 | Bill Hutchinson

Posted on 12/02/2004 1:28:23 AM PST by kattracks

Ex-fugitive Marc Rich is suspected of having become one of Saddam Hussein's middlemen in Iraq's illegal oil trade just a month after he won a controversial pardon from former President Bill Clinton, a news report said.

ABC News reported last night that Rich's alleged role in the growing UN oil-for-food scandal is under investigation by federal officials.

Rich, who was pardoned by Clinton in January 2001, and several other prominent oil traders are suspected of making illegal kickbacks to Iraq to win the lucrative oil contracts, the network reported.

The UN program was set up in 1996 to help Iraqis get food, medicine and other items that had been scarce under sanctions imposed after the 1991 Persian Gulf War. But investigators say Saddam realized more than $21billion under the program through kickbacks and other scams.

Rich fled the U.S. in 1986 while facing tax evasion charges.

Bill Hutchinson

Originally published on December 2, 2004



TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: billclinton; breakingnews; bubbaisms; clinton; clintoncronies; clintonista; clintonlegacy; clintonlibrary; clintonpardon; clintonpardons; foodforoilscandal; hillary2008; hillaryclinton; hillaryin2008; marcrich; oilforfood; pardongate; pardonsforsale; richpardon; un; unitednations; unscandals
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To: msnimje

Funny how when the effluvia of rat feces permeates the air, it always leads back to the klintoons. I would love to see the klintoons&Rich put under the federal penal system. Bill would survive on a blow-up love doll in prison or be made a punk. This would be deserving punishment for their mis-deeds at the low end of the spectrum.


61 posted on 12/02/2004 9:04:22 AM PST by No Surrender No Retreat
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To: kattracks

Now I understand completely why he was pardoned by the two commanders-in-thief when they left office. This makes perfect sense now. ;o)


62 posted on 12/02/2004 9:09:10 AM PST by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: deaconjim

Connecting the dots then... the Clinton Library was partly built with the oil for food money, that is .. rich.. LOL


63 posted on 12/02/2004 9:16:28 AM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It is highly probable that GEORGE SOROS is involved in all this. Ultimately, the investigation will expose all the participants involved in the design, implementation and beneficiarys of this plan.

This scandal is the product of experienced hands. Rich the designer. Soros the implementer and profiteer. Soros has a "legitimate" empire to channel this action. A syndicate of many including this pair, facilitated the Saddam and his beneficiaries.

Soro's fanatical and seemingly illogical political opposition to Bush finally makes sense. This man is now the "deer in the headlights".

Please follow this logic and find the facts.


64 posted on 12/02/2004 10:09:20 AM PST by Broker (Follow the money)
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To: kattracks

Marc Rich, eh? Does Clinton's pardon cover this scandalous activity too?


65 posted on 12/02/2004 10:10:29 AM PST by newzjunkey ("The rule of law has become confused with - indeed subverted by - the rule of judges." - Robert Bork)
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To: jriemer

What the hell is going on with Eleanor Mondale's body? Look at those arms... yecch.

66 posted on 12/02/2004 10:45:31 AM PST by Jhensy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ben Pollner? I wonder if he's related to Denise's attorney Martin Pollner?


67 posted on 12/02/2004 10:55:44 AM PST by cake_crumb (Goal of the Left="One Wing to Rule Them all and in the Darkness Bind Them")
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To: mewzilla
"This is hysterical. Rich's company was on that MEMRI list a while back, and the MSM is just figuring out the ties now?"

The Clintons were working for John "It's nobel to die for the UN but not for the US" Kerry's campaign until not long ago.

68 posted on 12/02/2004 11:01:27 AM PST by cake_crumb (Goal of the Left="One Wing to Rule Them all and in the Darkness Bind Them")
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To: kcvl
"So, that means that Clinton's pardon wouldn't include the Oil-for-Food scandal?!"

Question of the day: Why is the Klintoon Liebrary the only Presidential Library that will not publish its donors???
69 posted on 12/02/2004 11:09:43 AM PST by TRY ONE (NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
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To: Jhensy
What the hell is going on with Eleanor Mondale's body? Look at those arms... yecch.

She doesn't appear to have man hands.

70 posted on 12/02/2004 11:39:57 AM PST by jriemer (We are a Republic not a Democracy)
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To: Mike Bates
Dated? Oh, is that what they call that now?

Remember, they're the same group that was debating the meaning of "is"

71 posted on 12/02/2004 11:44:16 AM PST by jriemer (We are a Republic not a Democracy)
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To: Mia T
Thanks, Mia ... brilliant, as usual. Wouldn't it be the most deserved, sweet, karmic and ironic outcome if Rich, Denise Rich, Chirac, Kofi, a few other highly placed Russians, Germans and Frenchman AND the Clintons all went down in the same swell stroke??? It's not too far removed from possibility in my mind.

Marc Rich and Denise, before all the major reconstruction

72 posted on 12/02/2004 12:28:45 PM PST by STARWISE (America has spoken- what part of Bush won AGAIN don't they get? Pray for the troops)
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To: kattracks
Kinda figured I'd see his name again somewhere.

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73 posted on 12/02/2004 12:28:56 PM PST by sonsofliberty2000
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To: Cyclopean Squid

Ha ha ha! I thought the exact same thing!


74 posted on 12/02/2004 2:00:24 PM PST by mwyounce
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To: kattracks

Bill "I Don't Know What Sex Is" Clinton's friend has lots of explaining to do. Marc Rich was pardon by his buddy. Well, if they go to prison together, that would be rather interesting.


75 posted on 12/02/2004 2:06:06 PM PST by Ptarmigan (Proud rabbit hater and killer)
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To: kattracks

You just can't make this stuff up!


76 posted on 12/02/2004 2:12:01 PM PST by jrestrepo
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To: kattracks
Marc Rich tied to Iraq oil

Mark Rich should be tied to and burned at the stake!

77 posted on 12/02/2004 2:16:41 PM PST by beyond the sea (I know beyond a doubt ...... my heart will lead me there)
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To: kattracks
Ex-fugitive Marc Rich is suspected of having become one of Saddam Hussein's middlemen in Iraq's illegal oil trade just a month after he won a controversial pardon from former President Bill Clinton, a news report said.

Does not come as a surprise. He is obviously without any moral values just like the man that pardoned him.

78 posted on 12/02/2004 2:23:30 PM PST by Dustbunny (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist)
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To: weegee

If Carter beat Ford because of Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon, what do you think this bombshell will do to Hillary's chances in 2008?


Make her a hero in the eyes of all Socialists in America.


79 posted on 12/02/2004 2:35:03 PM PST by stockpirate (Check out my bio and learn about sKerry and his Socialist friends.)
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To: SkyPilot

Thanks for the shot of Mrs. Rich.
It taught me something.
I never knew that silicon droops.


80 posted on 12/02/2004 3:38:10 PM PST by Dashing Dasher (Bush/Cheney -- Peace through Strength)
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