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Cash Bid for Freedom Rudy says fugitive offered Ed Bd. aid
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and GREG B. SMITH
New YorkDaily News Staff Writers
Fugitive financier Marc Rich was so desperate to get a pardon
that he offered to donate "an enormous amount of money" to the
Board of Education in return for leniency.
Mayor Giuliani, who brought the Rich indictment in 1983, when he
was U.S. attorney in Manhattan, said yesterday that the charity
offer was made through an emissary of Rich.
"I thought that he wanted to buy his way out of the case," the
mayor recalled. "I'd say, 'Marc Rich should come back here, he
should stand trial, he should get convicted or acquitted, and
then he should do all the charitable work he wants to do.'"
Rich fled to Switzerland rather than face charges he evaded $48
million in taxes, and accusations of fraud and illegal
commodities trading.
Giuliani said there had been "numerous overtures" through the
years in which "lawyers and political figures ... offered all
kinds of deals for the purpose of Marc Rich coming back, merely
paying money and not having to go to jail."
The mayor said the offers were "not in the nature of campaign
contributions. [They were] in the nature of charitable
contributions to organizations the U.S. attorney's office would
designate, the Department of Justice would designate, I would
designate, somebody else would designate."
"There was once an offer to give an enormous amount of money to
the Board of Education, for example, in return for the federal
government promising that he wouldn't go to jail," the mayor
said.
Because he was the original prosecutor, Giuliani's backing would
have been important because Rich's lawyers would have cited it
when soliciting support from Mary Jo White, the present Manhattan
U.S. attorney.
Without White's knowledge, President Bill Clinton pardoned Rich
on Saturday.
As part of the Rich pardon application, his ex-wife, Denise,
wrote a letter Dec. 6 to Clinton accusing Giuliani of having
"unjustly alleged and so aggressively pursued" Rich.
Denise Rich's spokesman, Howard Rubenstein, said yesterday that
she wrote her letter at the suggestion of lawyer Robert Fink, who
worked on the pardon application with John Quinn, former White
House counsel.
Through Rubenstein, Denise Rich said, "her political fund-raising
and activity have absolutely nothing to do with the pardon
granted to her former husband." She also said she had not
solicited support letters from anyone else.
Rubenstein began speaking for Denise Rich on the pardon matter
two days after she falsely implied through another flack that she
had done nothing on behalf of the pardon plea. The first flack,
Bobby Zarem, said yesterday that he had assumed his client had
not known about the pardon request.
Besides Denise Rich, the fugitive received letters of support
from several major international players.
They included the king of Spain, Juan Carlos; the mayor of
Zurich, Josef Estermann; 1989 Nobel laureate Camilo Jose Cela;
the mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert, and Abraham Burg, speaker of
Israel's parliament.
Marc Rich even offered himself as an international spy for the
U.S. government.
"There was questions of whether he could provide intelligence,
given his international business ties," ex-prosecutor Martin
Auerbach told the Daily News.
Auerbach said Rich made it clear he had connections in Nigeria,
South Africa, Israel, Iran and other countries that could have
been useful to American intelligence.
He said Rich made several offers to pay millions of dollars in
restitution and fines to settle the indictment, but always
without prison time. Prosecutors refused, insisting that any
deal include a stretch behind bars.
As the scandal escalated yesterday afternoon, the mayor canceled
a meeting scheduled for tomorrow at City Hall with New York's new
senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Her spokesman Howard Wolfson said did not know why the sitdown
was nixed, adding, "Now that the campaign is long over, Sen.
Clinton looks forward to meeting with the mayor and working with
him on behalf of the people of New York."
Last night, Giuliani spokeswoman Sunny Mindel said the meeting
was canceled because of "scheduling conflicts" but provided no
other details. She said it would be rescheduled.
Original Publication Date: 1/25/01
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