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Brooklyn Rail
April 4, 2018
The following year, in addition to a teacher walkout, the United Steelworkers waged a 22-month battle against Marc Rich when his Ravenswood Aluminum Company locked out its 1700 workers. Union members picketed the plant and hounded Rich to his headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, where ...
St. James Plaindealer
March 31, 2018
President Bill Clinton pardoned wealthy businessman Marc Rich in the waning days of his administration after Rich's ex-wife donated to Clinton's legal defense fund. President George H. W. Bush said “honor, decency and fairness” prompted the pardon of former Reagan Administration defense secretaryÃÂ ...
CNN
March 31, 2018
When Bill Clinton pardoned the wealthy fugitive Marc Rich after Rich's ex-wife hosted a fundraiser for him and donated to his legal defense fund, it felt nothing less than icky. This Chicago Tribune long read is worth the time. The FBI, by the way, released new documents about its investigation days beforeÃÂ ...
Advocate.com
March 27, 2018
While working for then-U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Rudy Giuliani from 1987 to 1993, Comey oversaw the case against Marc Rich, a financier who fled the country after indictment for tax evasion and illegal dealings with Iran. In 1996 he was deputy special counsel for the SenateÃÂ ...
Jewish Link of New Jersey
March 22, 2018
That resulted in the exodus of Marc Rich, Pinky Green and many other traders, who formed their own company to compete with PB. (They would later get into trouble with the US Government and were convicted of alleged tax evasion and for allegedly trading with Iran. They were pardoned by PresidentÃÂ ...
TIME
March 21, 2018
As negotiations continue with special counsel Robert Mueller on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, the president has added a new lawyer and is considering making other changes. The newest addition to the legal team has garnered attention for burnishing Trump on cable TV.
The Federalist
March 18, 2018
... official or others improperly disclosed non-public information to both the Clinton and Trump campaigns; and whether the timing of the FBI's election eve Freedom of Information Act disclosures relating to Bill Clinton's 2001 pardon of Marc Rich was based on inappropriate considerations,” Bromwich wrote.
The Daily Gazette
March 11, 2018
... Slick Willy's collusion with Loretta Lynch; stolen debate questions; deleting 30,000-plus e-mails; destroying relevant cell phones with hammers; a secret computer serve; her secret dealings with foreign countries who knew that she was for sale; $10 million hush payment received for pardoning Marc Rich,ÃÂ ...
CNN
March 10, 2018
The November 1, 2016, tweet from the previously dormant FBI account linked to 129 pages of heavily redacted, internal documents largely pertaining to the bureau's investigation of President Bill Clinton's controversial pardon of Democratic donor Marc Rich. William J. Clinton Foundation: This initial releaseÃÂ ...
Seeking Alpha
March 1, 2018
Glencore (OTCPK:GLNCY) is one of the largest natural resource companies on earth, and aside from being a major producer of commodities, the company also has a long history as a trader and merchant in the raw materials markets. Marc Rich and Co. AG was the predecessor company to Glencore, andÃÂ ...
The Ellsworth American
February 28, 2018
“I feel like we should be like cheerleaders for the students,” said Jane Langley, who came up with the idea for Monday's demonstration. Marc Rich agreed. “The children need to know that we've got their backs.” Organizer Dottie Vachon said she hoped the messages reminded passers-by “not to give up onÃÂ ...
Capital Research Center
February 28, 2018
Krasner previously worked as a senior executive with Marc Rich Investment Ltd. In 1983, the U.S. had sentenced Rich on 65 criminal counts, which included buying oil from Iran while it held U.S. hostages. President Bill Clinton controversially pardoned Rich on his last day in office, sparing the billionaire aÃÂ ...
The Mercury
February 27, 2018
In this file photo, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort arrives at federal court in Washington. In a dramatic escalation of pressure and stakes, special counsel Robert Mueller filed additional criminal charges against Manafort and his business associate, Rick Gates. Susan Walsh — TheÃÂ ...
The Mercury
February 27, 2018
In this file photo, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort arrives at federal court in Washington. In a dramatic escalation of pressure and stakes, special counsel Robert Mueller filed additional criminal charges against Manafort and his business associate, Rick Gates. Susan Walsh — TheÃÂ ...
The Ellsworth American
February 26, 2018
“The children need to know that we've got their backs,” said Marc Rich. “We love our students, teachers and parents and their community will be there for them,” said Rev. Sara Hayman of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ellsworth. Vachon said she hoped the messages reminded passers-by “not to giveÃÂ ...
The American Conservative
February 21, 2018
Here's one vignette in Holder's career guaranteed to end up on the cutting room floor: as deputy attorney general at the end of the Clinton administration he made the official call behind the now-infamous Marc Rich pardon. Rich, a former fixture on the FBI's Most Wanted list, violated the Trading with theÃÂ ...
Seeking Alpha
December 31, 1999
The company began operations in 1974 as Marc Rich and Company. The late Marc Rich was a legendary commodities trader who started his career at Philipp Brothers in the 1950s after a bonus dispute with management in the 1970s; Rich founded his namesake company with headquarters in ZugÃÂ ...
BloombergQuint
December 31, 1999
“Zug is a notorious haven for white-collar miscreants,” reads the complaint, citing the past example of Marc Rich, a commodities trader eventually pardoned by Bill Clinton. “The defendants admitted that they chose to use a foundation in Zug to conduct the ICO and collect investor funds because theyÃÂ ...
The Trentonian
December 31, 1999
In this file photo, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort arrives at federal court in Washington. In a dramatic escalation of pressure and stakes, special counsel Robert Mueller filed additional criminal charges against Manafort and his business associate, Rick Gates. Susan Walsh — TheÃÂ ...
The American Conservative
February 22, 2018
Here's one vignette in Holder's career guaranteed to end up on the cutting room floor: as deputy attorney general at the end of the Clinton administration he made the official call behind the now-infamous Marc Rich pardon. Rich, a former fixture on the FBI's Most Wanted list, violated the Trading with theÃÂ ...
Just Security
February 21, 2018
The Court might be especially inclined not to apply the presumption against extraterritoriality in light of a considerable body of case law – from Bank of Nova Scotia to Marc Rich — suggesting that it is now “well established” that production orders can compel domestic actors to produce evidence they storeÃÂ ...
Jamaica Observer
February 14, 2018
2001: A criminal investigation is conducted into outgoing US President Bill Clinton's last-minute pardon of fugitive commodities traders Marc Rich and Pincus Green, who had fled to Switzerland in 1983 to escape prosecution for tax evasion and violation of a trade embargo. 2006: The oldest son of PrimeÃÂ ...
The Hayride
February 7, 2018
That stake, valued at $19 billion, was ultimately purchased by Swiss firm Glencore PLC – a firm founded by Clinton donor Marc Rich, whose pardon at the end of the Clinton administration was one of the more ugly episodes in the history of American political corruption. We now know that Mike Flynn,ÃÂ ...
The Hayride
February 7, 2018
That stake, valued at $19 billion, was ultimately purchased by Swiss firm Glencore PLC – a firm founded by Clinton donor Marc Rich, whose pardon at the end of the Clinton administration was one of the more ugly episodes in the history of American political corruption. We now know that Mike Flynn,ÃÂ ...
Antiwar.com
January 29, 2018
Glencore, we may recall has some interesting connections to the Clintons, with Glencore founder Marc Rich receiving a pardon from Bill Clinton on his last day in office after being on the run as a fugitive from the FBI. Bill Clinton also is a friend of Rwandan president Paul Kagame, whose government hasÃÂ ...
POLITICO Magazine
January 26, 2018
The saga of Donald Trump and Robert Mueller took a dramatic new turn on Thursday night when the New York Times first reported that the president had ordered the special counsel to be fired in June last year. But Mueller's investigation has ground on since then, after President Trump backed down whenÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
January 23, 2018
For example, before leaving the White House, former President Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich, whose ex-wife happened to donate $450,000 to his presidential library. The Obama Foundation may not have intentionally set out to save taxpayers' money. But under its current agreement with NARA,ÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
January 10, 2018
Commenting on why the exposure remained neglected, Ortel suggested that "starting in February 2001 (after the Marc Rich pardon triggered outrage) somehow questionable activities of the Clintons and their allies seem only to have been studied in what some might say have been fake investigations.".
theday.com
January 8, 2018
Marc Rich was indicted for evading $48 million in federal taxes and selling illegal oil to America's enemy, Iran. Rich bolted to Switzerland to escape a long prison term. Bill Clinton, in his last hours as president, pardoned Rich with no explanation. To add to this Denise Rich, the fugitive's former wife, gaveÃÂ ...
The Wilson Times
December 25, 2017
The Uranium One deal with Russia and the Marc Rich pardon are just two examples. There are numerous other pay-for-play schemes she has participated in. Do I hate Hillary Clinton? No! I do hate the actions she's committed that have negatively affected the United States. The U.S. is much better off nowÃÂ ...
Albany Times Union
December 21, 2017
In its worst, it reeks of politics and cronyism (as, for example, in Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich, George W. Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence, and Donald Trump's pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio). Revisiting punishments doled out to yesterday's juvenile offenders — sentenced before science,ÃÂ ...
Elizabethtown Bladen Journal
December 18, 2017
The Uranium One deal with Russia and the Marc Rich pardon are just two examples. There are numerous other 'pay for play' schemes that she has participated in. These schemes have benefited her and her family. They have become wealthy because of these pay for play schemes. Do I hate HillaryÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
December 14, 2017
With revenue slumping, 20th Century Fox is bought by oil magnate Marvin H. Davis and commodities trader Marc Rich for $720 million. 1985. Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch buys 20th Century Fox and makes it part of his company, News Corp. The same year, Murdoch acquires six big-cityÃÂ ...
Seeking Alpha
December 5, 2017
The two most political commodities in the world are wheat and crude oil. Wheat is the staple ingredient in bread, which feeds people all over the world. Crude oil, as Marc Rich once said, is the blood that flows through the veins of the earth and powers the world. Commodities are staples and essential rawÃÂ ...
The Guardian
November 5, 2017
It was founded in 1974 as Marc Rich and Co. Rich – a former child refugee who became a naturalised American citizen after fleeing Nazi-occupied Belgium with his family – led his eponymous firm for two decades. Glencore and its forerunner have been accused of sanctions-busting in Saddam Hussein'sÃÂ ...
The Guardian
August 25, 2017
Financier Marc Rich was pardoned by president Bill Clinton. Photograph: AP. The commodities trader fled to Switzerland in 1983, accused of evading $48m in taxes and illegally trading with Iran in oil. But Rich, whose ex-wife was a prominent fundraiser for the Democrats, was pardoned by Bill Clinton onÃÂ ...
Newsweek
November 1, 2016
While they offer some tantalizing tidbits, the documents are heavily redacted, and they don't seem to offer any substantial new information about the criminal inquiry launched by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York after Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich in 2001. Long sought for extradition,ÃÂ ...
Politico
November 1, 2016
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is raising questions about the timing of the FBI's release Tuesday of records on a 15-year-old investigation into President Bill Clinton's pardon to fugitive financier Marc Rich. The FBI posted the 129 pages of records in its online Freedom of Information Act reading roomÃÂ ...
NPR
November 1, 2016
On Tuesday, the law enforcement agency released documents related to the former president's pardon of Marc Rich, a former hedge-fund manager who had been indicted on multiple counts of tax evasion, wire fraud and racketeering. Hillary Clinton's campaign immediately questioned the release, whichÃÂ ...
New York Times
June 26, 2013
Marc Rich, a shrewd, swashbuckling oil trader who fled to Switzerland after being indicted on charges of widespread tax evasion, illegal dealings with Iran and other crimes, and who was later pardoned by President Bill Clinton in his last hours in office, setting off a whirlwind of criticism, died on WednesdayÃÂ ...
Inweekly
December 31, 1999
President George W. Bush appointed United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where one of his first investigations was into President Bill Clinton's controversial pardon of Marc Rich. Bush later appointed him Deputy Attorney General. Comey left the Department of Justice during Bush'sÃÂ ...
finews.com
December 31, 1999
Notoriously low-key Daniel Sauter was pushed into the spotlight at Julius Baer following the exit of its high-flying CEO. finews.com profiles the enigmatic 60-year-old chairman of Switzerland's third-largest private bank. Aloof, shrewd, inaccessible – the words used to describe Julius Baer chairman DanielÃÂ ...
finews.com
December 29, 2017
Notoriously low-key Daniel Sauter was pushed into the spotlight at Julius Baer following the exit of its high-flying CEO. finews.com profiles the enigmatic 60-year-old chairman of Switzerland's third-largest private bank. Aloof, shrewd, inaccessible – the words used to describe Julius Baer chairman DanielÃÂ ...
The Wilson Times
December 26, 2017
The Uranium One deal with Russia and the Marc Rich pardon are just two examples. There are numerous other pay-for-play schemes she has participated in. Do I hate Hillary Clinton? No! I do hate the actions she's committed that have negatively affected the United States. The U.S. is much better off nowÃÂ ...
Albany Times Union
December 22, 2017
In its worst, it reeks of politics and cronyism (as, for example, in Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich, George W. Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence, and Donald Trump's pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio). Revisiting punishments doled out to yesterday's juvenile offenders — sentenced before science,ÃÂ ...
American Spectator
December 21, 2017
Somewhat more than two months ago, I explained in some detail here in TAS why President Trump should pardon Sholom Rubashkin. Indeed, President Trump's just announced commutation (an exoneration, as I see it) of Rubashkin is a no-brainer. Although the contrived charges and judicial collusionÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
December 14, 2017
With revenue slumping, 20th Century Fox is bought by oil magnate Marvin H. Davis and commodities trader Marc Rich for $720 million. 1985. Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch buys 20th Century Fox and makes it part of his company, News Corp. The same year, Murdoch acquires six big-cityÃÂ ...
Press & Sun-Bulletin
December 8, 2017
And if his lawyers doubt that, they should ask Bill Clinton what happened after he pardoned Marc Rich, the infamous fugitive financier. There was nothing corrupt about the Rich pardon, which President Clinton signed on Jan. 20, 2001, his final day in office. But Clinton's critics in the media, Congress andÃÂ ...
Seeking Alpha
December 5, 2017
The two most political commodities in the world are wheat and crude oil. Wheat is the staple ingredient in bread, which feeds people all over the world. Crude oil, as Marc Rich once said, is the blood that flows through the veins of the earth and powers the world. Commodities are staples and essential rawÃÂ ...
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