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Two-Week Reprieve for Denise
By RICHARD SISK
New York Daily News
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON enise Rich will get at least a two-week slide before
being forced to talk about possible links between her political
contributions and former President Bill Clinton's pardon of her
ex-husband, Marc Rich.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, which will hold hearings on the
Rich pardon Wednesday, has no plans to call Denise Rich to
testify, and the House committee that has been hounding her will
not meet again until the end of the month.
But a spokesman for the House Government Reform Committee said
Denise Rich probably would be hit this week with a grant of
immunity and a subpoena to testify.
The move was triggered by her citation of the Fifth Amendment
Thursday.
The committee struck back by releasing a fat file of e-mail and
internal memos from Rich partisans that a House source described
as telling "a classic Washington tale of power, money and
access."
The irony in the tale is that Marc Rich's wealth put kings, prime
ministers and a presidential lawyer in his pocket, but the tycoon
was coming across as a pardon deadbeat on Capitol Hill.
"The impression is that this was all paid for by DR [Denise
Rich]," a member of Rich's legal team moaned in an e-mail after
Clinton pardoned Marc Rich.
Denise Rich gave $1.3 million to Bill Clinton, Sen. Hillary
Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats, in addition to
another $450,000 for the Clinton presidential library, The
Washington Post reported yesterday.
The internal communications show a Marc Rich team struggling to
paint its client as a reclusive philanthropist wrongly accused.
But, in the process, friendships and reputations were destroyed,
and allies who were no longer needed � including the husband of
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg � were tossed
overboard.
Martin Ginsburg, a Georgetown University tax professor and
lawyer, along with a colleague, had told the Rich team how to
counter the charges of evading $48 million in taxes.
But Rich lawyer Jack Quinn, a former White House counsel, said in
an e-mail that he was going to tell the media about the role that
Ginsburg and his friend played � against their wishes.
"The tax professors don't want to be too far out front," Quinn
said. "The tail is wagging the dog."
Another key figure caught up in the fiasco was former Deputy
Attorney General Eric Holder, who signed off on pardon petitions
that went to Clinton.
Quinn and Holder admitted last week to having several
conversations about Quinn using his influence to get Holder the
attorney general's post if former Vice President Al Gore won the
presidential election.
The internal memos also disclosed that in December Holder sent
Quinn the r�sum�s of two Justice Department aides who wanted jobs
with Quinn's firm.
The Rich partisans sometimes got their signals crossed. In a
Jan. 3 e-mail, attorney Robert Fink told Avner Azulay, head of
the Rich Foundation, about the search for a "rabbi" to push the
pardon inside the White House.
Azulay replied, "I don't understand the comment about the rabbi."
He already had recruited dozens of Israeli rabbis to support the
Rich pardon.
Fink messaged back that "by 'rabbi' I meant someone inside who is
in favor of the pardon. .... Sorry about the lack of clarity."
Original Publication Date: 2/11/01
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