Timing is everything.
The FBI just released the records pertaining to one of Bill Clinton’s more questionable pardons.
Marc Rich was a close friend of Bill Clinton, if by close friend I mean someone that gives you money, and an international fugitive, having fled to Switzerland rather than face charges being brought by Rudy Giuliani.
Clinton waved his hand, like the pope, and all of Rich’s future jail time vanished. He would only face civil charges. Rich chose not to return— cheap bastard.
The pardon was investigated. By who? By James Comey.
wiki- Federal Prosecutor Mary Jo White was appointed to investigate Clinton’s last-minute pardon of Rich.[31] She stepped down before the investigation was finished and was replaced by then-Republican James Comey, who was critical of Clinton’s pardons and of then-Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder’s pardon recommendation.
Clinton was cleared of wrong-doing. ??????????????
I guess they couldn’t prove any intent on Rich’s part to bribe a U.S. president, or Clinton’s intent on taking it.
Rich donated to the Clintons.
wiki- Clinton’s critics alleged that Rich’s pardon had been bought, as Denise Rich had given more than $1 million[25] to Clinton’s political party (the Democratic Party), including more than $100,000 to the Senate campaign of the president’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and $450,000 to the Clinton Library foundation during Clinton’s time in office.[21]
The NY Post:
A New York Times editorial called it “a shocking abuse of presidential power.” The usually Clinton-friendly New Republic noted it “is often mentioned as Exhibit A of Clintonian sliminess.”
Marc Rich was wanted for a list of charges going back decades. He had traded illegally with America’s enemies including Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran, where he bought about $200 million worth of oil while revolutionaries allied with Khomeini held 53 American hostages in 1979.
Rich made a large part of his wealth, approximately $2 billion between 1979 and 1994, selling oil to the apartheid regime in South Africa when it faced a UN embargo. He did deals with Khadafy’s Libya, Milosevic’s Yugoslavia, Kim Il Sung’s North Korea, Communist dictatorships in Cuba and the Soviet Union itself. Little surprise that he was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List.
“It wasn’t worth the damage to my reputation” !
Clinton thought he had a good reputation?
Bill and Hillary have always been scum bags looking to enrich themselves by selling favors, contracts and appointments.
Yet, Comey (the Complicit) can’t find intent?
I’m still thoroughly ripped at Dubya for only commuting the sentences of Ramos and Compean. This Rich turd totally skates.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/patient-burned-mid-surgery-explosion-laser-ignites-fart-article-1.2852543
Would that be worse than salt in her wound?
Watching these two Arkansans crash and burn with their fates aimed deep at the heart of the ash heap of history is one of the best fucking things I’ve ever seen in my life.
It’s about fucking time. I, for one, am elated by their tragedies.
Jimmy – Time to bring back the old Canary-In-The-Birdcage technique for that!
When the beak hits the tin, shut off the laser!
Who at the FBI did the Clinton’s screw over? Love these shots the FBI are firing across their bow.
Mary Jo White is the current Chairperson of the Securities and Exchange (SEC). After Wall Street screwed America to the tune of about $16 TRILLION, only ONE person was ever prosecuted and convicted. She couldn’t, or wouldn’t catch Clinton years ago, and she hasn’t done diddley squat about the single largest theft in history! But I’m sure she’s a great lawyer, just like the Clintons.