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Marc Rich dies at 78 in Switzerland
Fox News, AP ^ | June 26, 2013 | Fox News, AP

Posted on 06/26/2013 4:45:55 AM PDT by sodpoodle

Marc Rich, the trader known as the "King of Commodities" who was pardoned in 2001 by President Bill Clinton just hours before he left office, has died in Switzerland. He was 78.

Rich's Israel-based spokesman Avner Azulay says Rich died Wednesday and will be buried in Israel on Thursday.

Rich fled the United States to Switzerland in 1983 after being indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury on more than 50 counts of fraud, racketeering, trading with Iran during the U.S. Embassy hostage crisis and evading more than $48 million in income taxes

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/06/26/financier-marc-rich-who-fled-to-switzerland-in-183-and-was-pardoned-by-clinton/#ixzz2XK1P5Jvd

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billclinton; clinton; corruption; crook; doj; ericholder; holder; marcrich; pardon; rich
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To: bandleader

YUP!!! Eric the Red - again!!!! see my Post#18


21 posted on 06/26/2013 5:06:55 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers.)
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To: nascarnation

Yep... agreed!


22 posted on 06/26/2013 5:14:07 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: sodpoodle

BIH you criminal..Your friends will join you one day so save a pace for them by the fire..


23 posted on 06/26/2013 5:16:23 AM PDT by PLD
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To: sodpoodle

Too bad, so sad tough toenails. I hope he enjoys spending his wealth in Hades.


24 posted on 06/26/2013 5:17:37 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: sodpoodle

Marc Rich is the one that came up with the idea of the Oil for Food program sometime in 1992 IIRC.

The OFF program was used to play the oil futures market.

With the Clinton adm. making the decision when oil would be dumped on the market there was no way to loose.

Same as Hillary and her cattle futures, just on a much larger scale.

The $65 billion everyone was worried about in the OFF program was nothing but chump change, the cost of doing business.


25 posted on 06/26/2013 5:21:24 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: nascarnation

Nice purse.


26 posted on 06/26/2013 5:21:36 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (NRA Life Member)
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To: nascarnation

Looks like a friggin’ Madam.


27 posted on 06/26/2013 5:27:23 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
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To: sodpoodle

Ya just gotta love a guy buddy of Clinton like that.


28 posted on 06/26/2013 5:33:10 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: Rummyfan
Gawd what a pig!

Considering she's 69 yo I'd give her a bit of leeway.

29 posted on 06/26/2013 6:13:38 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Rummyfan; Lazamataz

Not sure what laz would give her


30 posted on 06/26/2013 6:15:17 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: nascarnation

There should be a FR ban on anything that has more than 6 inches of cleavage - male or female


31 posted on 06/26/2013 6:15:40 AM PDT by llevrok (We are in a new Cold War. At home.)
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To: sodpoodle

One day, we may know how big the bribe was from Rich to the klintons that bought his pardon.


32 posted on 06/26/2013 6:17:21 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Jesus, Please Save America!)
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To: from occupied ga

Sausage.


33 posted on 06/26/2013 6:17:57 AM PDT by Lazamataz (If illegal aliens voted (R), then the Dems would create the tightest border security in the world.)
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To: bandleader

Holder has nothing for contempt for us. He keeps sneaking around, and forgetting everything he does.


34 posted on 06/26/2013 6:19:28 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: nascarnation
Looks like a burlesque costume.
35 posted on 06/26/2013 6:22:02 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: from occupied ga

Not sure what she would give Laz ... but there’s always penicillin.


36 posted on 06/26/2013 6:28:38 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
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To: sodpoodle

They’re gonna bury him in the Holy Land? The ground will surely quake, open up and spit him back out.


37 posted on 06/26/2013 6:51:54 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: sodpoodle

I hear God does not accept Presidential pardons.


38 posted on 06/26/2013 6:52:58 AM PDT by mware
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To: sodpoodle

will Holder lower the US flag at DOJ to half-mast???

never did understand why he recommended Rich for pardon


39 posted on 06/26/2013 7:07:07 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: sodpoodle

Isn’t he the one whose wife “serviced” Bill Clinton, and gained the Pardon?


40 posted on 06/26/2013 7:55:23 AM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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