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Ex-Wife of Pardoned Financier Pledged Money to Clinton Library - New York Times (flag)
query.nytimes.com — The Congressional committee looking into former President Bill Clinton's last-minute pardon of the financier Marc Rich was told today that Mr. Rich's former wife, Denise, had pledged ''an enormous sum of money'' for Mr. Clinton's presidential library. But little else emerged about the pledge ...

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Why Eric Holder Represents What's Wrong with Washington
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — ... asked about during confirmation hearings, which are scheduled to begin Thursday--was a case of Washington pay-to-play. There's little doubt that Rich, a fugitive financier indicted for tax evasion, racketeering, and trading with the enemy (Iran), was able to win that last-minute pardon from President Clinton (with Holder, as deputy attorney general, leaning slightly in its favor) because he had hired a former Clinton White House counsel to argue his case and because Rich's ex-wife had pledged money to Clinton causes. ...

Why Eric Holder Represents What's Wrong in Washington
David Corn — ... asked about during confirmation hearings, which are scheduled to begin Thursday--was a case of Washington pay-to-play. There's little doubt that Rich, a fugitive financier indicted for tax evasion, racketeering, and trading with the enemy (Iran), was able to win that last-minute pardon from President Clinton (with Holder, as deputy attorney general, leaning slightly in its favor) because he had hired a former Clinton White House counsel to argue his case and because Rich's ex-wife had pledged money to Clinton causes. ...

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