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NYT: Pardon back in focus for Justice nominee

 

Published 12/2/2008 at msnbc.com: Politics

In the career of Eric H. Holder Jr., President-elect Barack Obama’s attorney general choice, there is one notable blemish: Holder’s role in the 2001 pardon of billionaire financier Marc Rich. (link)

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