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Marc Rich: United States
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Marc Rich is a 1989 graduate of Brooklyn Law School. He has 15 years experience as a trial lawyer. Marc is a member of the Bar in New York and New Jersey. Marc is a member of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the Queens County Bar Association, the New York County Lawyers Association, and the New York Criminal & Civil Courts Bar Association.
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Marc Rich founded the company, then known as Marc Rich and Co. in the Swiss village of Zug, a tax haven. He fled there from the United States to escape 51 criminal charges, including tax evasion, wire fraud and racketeering, and for years he was America's number one white-collar fugitive.
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Rich, along with Pollner and Bayoil's Chalmers, were "very trusted by the Iraqi Oil Ministry," says Axel Busch, chief correspondent for industry newsletter Energy Intelligence. A street-smart Staten Island boy, "Pollner is considered a brilliant trader," says Busch. Cultivating relations with small refineries, particularly in the U.S., enabled him to handle big quantities of Iraqi oil by breaking it into smaller cargoes, say industry experts. Pollner, they say, began trading with Iraq before the 1991 Persian Gulf War and continued after a U.N. embargo.
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[N]either the $171 million payment, nor the pardon, prevents the U.S. from bringing charges for tax evasion or other misdeeds that Rich and Green may have committed as fugitives--assuming they're still citizens. The State Department won't comment on their citizenship status, citing privacy laws. But former law enforcement officials insist that the two are U.S. nationals. "In my view, they never properly renounced their citizenship," says Howard Safir, the former New York City police commissioner who pursued Rich as head of the U.S. Marshals Service in the 1980s.
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Let's put aside for the moment that Rich's crimes were of the financial sort. He didn't betray the national security of the United States, as Libby (and Cheney, Bush, and Rove for that matter) did. Rich didn't obstruct a federal investigation into the outing of a CIA operative specializing in tracking the illicit sales of WMD. Let's ... put aside that Rudolph Giuliani is the one who prosecuted Rich, condemned his pardon, but urged a pardon for Libby.
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Rich has been living in Switzerland since his 1983 indictment on charges of racketeering, wire fraud, illegal oil trading with Iran and evading more than $48 million in taxes. The financier was born in Belgium but grew up in the United States.
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