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Clinton Denies Rich Pardon Was Political
CNSNews.com
Saturday, Feb. 3, 2001
Former President Bill Clinton in New York Friday said there was
"absolutely nothing political" about the recent pardon of
fugitive Marc Rich.
Rich was pardoned by Clinton just hours before he relinquished
the presidency to George W. Bush.
Speaking on Fox News Channel, Clinton said: "On the Rich pardon,
what happened was that I was asked by my former counsel Jack
Quinn to look at it. He had originally refused to take the case
because he believed all the criticisms about it, and when he
looked at it he concluded that he [Rich] was wrongly charged.
"I agreed to do it only on the condition that Mr. Rich would
waive all his offenses. If I'm wrong and he shouldn't have been
pardoned, then the government can go against him, like they could
everybody else. Otherwise, they would never have a chance to do
that. But there was actually nothing political about it."
Rich's ex-wife, Denise, raised huge amounts of money for
Clinton's presidential campaigns and Hillary Clinton's New York
Senate campaign. Rich himself has been living overseas since
1983.
Clinton also defended his other last-minute pardons. "I pardoned
about as many people, I think, as President Reagan did. And far
fewer than President Ford or President Carter.
"And most of them, the reasons are self-evident, most of them
are people that no one knows. I wish I could have found more
people like that, that we could have gotten up through the
system."
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