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GET RICH QUICK - Billionaire Marc Rich has emerged as...
nypost.com ^ | December 13, 2004 | NILES LATHEM

Posted on 12/13/2004 11:31:44 AM PST by crushelits


WASHINGTON — Billionaire Marc Rich has emerged as a central figure in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal and is under investigation for brokering deals in which scores of international politicians and businessmen cashed in on sweetheart oil deals with Saddam Hussein, The Post has learned.

Rich, the fugitive Swiss-based commodities trader who received a controversial pardon from President Bill Clinton in January 2001, is a primary target of criminal probes. Full Story

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KEYWORDS: billionaire; clintonlegacy; emerged; marcrich; oilforfood; pardongate
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1 posted on 12/13/2004 11:31:44 AM PST by crushelits
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It is quite possible that we may never stop being screwed by Bill Clinton's actions
2 posted on 12/13/2004 11:34:21 AM PST by JIM O
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To: crushelits

Good to see Clinton's Legacy getting aired!


3 posted on 12/13/2004 11:34:44 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: crushelits
I believe that I will get rich quickly by starting my own business cashing in on the billions of dollars of change sitting in jars and drawers all over America.
Owl_Eagle

"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in.  I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"

-Hillary Clinton
(Yes, she really said that
Peggy Noonan
The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg 55)

4 posted on 12/13/2004 11:35:37 AM PST by End Times Sentinel (Enrage a liberal- "Happy Birthday Jesus!")
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To: crushelits

Unbelievable. I hope they confiscate all of Denise Rich's assets. There has to be a way of getting to this guy.


5 posted on 12/13/2004 11:36:09 AM PST by Hildy ( The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue)
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To: crushelits

Poor Mr. Rich. Perhaps President Bush should consider another pardon...


6 posted on 12/13/2004 11:37:40 AM PST by Da Bilge Troll (The Compasionate Troll)
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To: Hildy

How come no one ever offers me sweet heart oil deals?


7 posted on 12/13/2004 11:38:18 AM PST by Holicheese (MMMMMM I like Canukistan strippers!)
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To: crushelits

What will Hillary!do when she realizes that there's just too much "Baggage"?

8 posted on 12/13/2004 11:40:17 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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You'd need a nose like Clinton's...a nose that you can reach over and "beep" like Floppy's.


9 posted on 12/13/2004 11:41:49 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: crushelits

Gee. . . I'm shocked. . .


11 posted on 12/13/2004 11:44:53 AM PST by Tempest (Click on my name for a long list of press contacts)
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This is the key reason the crapweasel dems put on the full court press on there being no connection between Saddam/Iraq and OBL/9-11! Not because it undercut W's rationale for freeing Iraq.

The connection existed but Willie was involved. All through the 90s, Willie avoided tagging OBL because his guy, Rich, was getting billions in oil money from Saddam. Some of that money went to Willie in contributions and a lot went to Willie's double wide (lie-brary conrtributions are being doctored as we speak).

Over almost10 years, Willie could have stopped 9/11. OBL planned all these years, paying Willie for calm. Once Willie was out, the money sort of stopped (Rich would have continued to collect if Saddam were syill in charge and Rich would have passed some of that on to Willie, the DNC, the lie-brary and Hillie).

A solid investigation into Rich will tag Willie! Monica was simply a diversion; the real impeachment offense was taking millions in bribes from foreigners.

12 posted on 12/13/2004 11:47:15 AM PST by Tacis (Kerry - You Can't Make A Silk Purse Out Of A Lazy, Lying, Elitist Scumbag!)
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To: crushelits

Another thread on this subject with comments here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1300201/posts


13 posted on 12/13/2004 11:48:45 AM PST by Ben Hecks
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Loks like another "Arkanside" is about to occur...


14 posted on 12/13/2004 11:54:09 AM PST by pabianice
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F.O.B. Alert! (Friends of Bill)

Almost like alimony: "The screwing you get for the screwing you got"
15 posted on 12/13/2004 11:54:30 AM PST by Dalite (If PRO is the opposite of CON, What is the opposite of PROgress? Go Figure....)
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Guess Rich's wife can't lay down for Bubba Clintoon again for this one.


16 posted on 12/13/2004 12:12:53 PM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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Click for the full NY Post article

Rich, who fled the country to Switzerland in 1983 to escape an indictment for racketeering and tax evasion as well as trading oil with Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran, has not set foot inside the United States since his pardon.

In January 2001, in the final hours his presidency, Clinton bypassed law-enforcement and intelligence agencies to wipe the books clean for Rich after being subjected to intense lobbying from former Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Rich's jet-setting ex-wife, Denise, who donated more than $1 million to Democratic campaigns — including Sen. Hillary Rodham's first Senate race — along with an additional $450,000 to Clinton's library fund.

Investigators still do not know how recipients of the vouchers led to Rich, but say his relationship with Saddam goes back more than a decade.

Well, maybe someone should ask Senator Clinton & the Dem party to return Denise Richs money?

Maybe Sadam was bribing Clinton?????????????

I wonder if there are any files in some Bagdad office that might say Clinto was bribed? Oh course if there were, I am sure that Dan Rather would have them examined for authenticity and they would be found to be fakes. (/sarcasm)

17 posted on 12/13/2004 12:20:21 PM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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including Sen. Hillary Rodham's first Senate race

Not so fast! You're still a Clinton, Hil.


18 posted on 12/13/2004 12:26:01 PM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative (Have you visited http://blog.c-pol.com?)
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To: Dalite

No Kidding! Rich = Clinton, and this oil for food thing already involves bribed politicians in Britain, France, Germany, the UN, and every place and everybody BUT Bush, Cheney, Haliburton...


19 posted on 12/13/2004 12:27:17 PM PST by Nucluside
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Saddam to Rich to Clinton.... or why the US government refused to investigate terrorism since 1993. They were on-the-take in the oil-for-food program.... a betrayal that brought us 9-11.


20 posted on 12/13/2004 12:28:07 PM PST by Lexington Green (... and a cavity search for every schoolchild.)
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