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The case of Marc Rich is much better known. In some ways, it may seem to be less of a Jewish problem, per se. Rich’s alleged crimes, tax evasion and breaking an embargo against Iran, are shocking. Unlike the crimes of New Square, though, Rich’s actions were not committed in the name of Judaism, God, or the Jewish people. Bill Clinton is the one most often charged with wrongdoing in the matter of the Rich pardon, not the Jewish people.
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Marc Rich's former wife has stated that her sizable contributions to the Democrats and Clintons' campaigns had nothing to do with the pardon. Again, only the former president can answer whether or not these contributions influenced his decision — and he certainly is not going to state he was bribed. But only he knows what influence the pleas of a woman who gave seven figures' worth of donations did or did not have on his decision.
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As it turns out, Marc Rich was accused of the following series of "offenses": oil "profiteering", tax evasion on these "illegal profits," and unlawfully trading with Iran during the hostage crisis. Yet everything Rich is guilty of is not a crime in the traditional sense, because he violated the rights of nobody. Rich's actions simply offended the sensibilities of government economic planners and flew in the face of their wrong-headed policy and, therefore, he must suffer at the hands of overzealous prosecutors and probing IRS agents.
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Marc Rich has been dogged by controversy for a long time. The spotlight is again on him after former president Clinton, during his final hours in the White House, granted him a pardon.
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Investigators have yet to prove that Denise Rich's donations were directly tied to the pardon effort--or that the money secretly came from Marc Rich. Sources close to Denise Rich say she is now talking to federal prosecutors in New York and may soon reach a deal that would grant her immunity to tell her full story. It's not certain the Feds will get much out of the bargain. According to these sources, Denise Rich says she has barely spoken to her ex-husband since the divorce and she used her own money to support the Clintons' causes. She says she agreed to help her ex-husband so that he could return to the United States to visit the grave of their daughter Gabrielle, who died of cancer in 1996. Denise did not want to intervene at first, but Rich's lawyers and her two living daughters prevailed upon her.
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The cosmopolitan, Belgian-born Rich and the homespun, Brooklyn-bred Green got into trouble in the West Texas oil patch in the early 1980s. The two had bolted Phil-ipp Brothers commodities house in 1973 in a dispute over bonuses and started their own company, Marc Rich & Co. Though the firm was based in Zug, Switzerland, Rich and Green worked in New York. In 1980 and 1981, according to a 65-count indictment, the two men exploited the government's complex energy regulations by buying price-controlled Texas crude for as little as $6 a barrel, relabeling the barrels to make them look like decontrolled supplies, then selling them for as much as $40 on the open market--a scam that generated $105 million in illegal profits. They allegedly used sham transactions to ship the profits to offshore subsidiaries that paid no taxes. And they were accused of profiting from the Iran hostage crisis by purchasing $200 million of Iranian crude, a violation of the U.S. embargo against Tehran.
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