Feb. 19, 2001 -- -- Bill Clinton says he believes he acted "in the best interests of justice" when he pardoned the fugitive financier Marc Rich, and the move had nothing to do with political donations ...

JACK QUINN, ATTORNEY FOR MARC RICH, FORMER CLINTON WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL: You may disagree with him and with me. You may believe he made a terrible mistake. But I tell you today that nothing, absolutely ...

Jan. 21 -- Among the list of people former President Clinton pardoned during his last day in office was an internationally wanted fugitive who has been living in Switzerland for more than 15 years.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. GENEVA • Marc Rich, the trader known as the "King of Commodities" whose controversial 2001 pardon by President Bill Clinton just ...

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In government scandals, some surnames are especially memorable, even decades later. A fugitive financier named Marc Rich (and his partner Pinky Green) were famously pardoned by Bill Clinton in what ...

Marc Rich's connections to the rich and powerful not only made him fabulously wealthy but when he was indicted for fraud, racketeering and tax evasion on a grand scale, they helped secure him a pardon ...

GENEVA — He was a wheeler-dealer pardoned by another consummate dealmaker, a working-class Jewish boy who left Belgium to escape the Nazis and rose to become the billionaire “King of Commodities.” ...