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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tonto who wrote (39338)	8/4/2005 5:55:31 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93284

That's not correct. Marc Rich did not donate. His estranged ex-wife (I think they're divorced but still friendly) gave Clinton a contribution for his library of $200,000. They were also social friends. Denise Rich is a big socialite and is very charming and beautiful. She gives big parties in Aspen and the Hamptons and helped welcome the Clintons to New York socially speaking. There is also the rumor that the Israeli government lobbyied to pardon Rich because he was a valuable asset for their CIA (and so maybe for the US too) in Russia. Rich is a commodities trader who cut corners and evaded taxes like many of Bush-Cheney's best friends in the oil business. Rich keeps residences in the world's safest tax havens and tries to avoid US taxes. He finally got nabbed. This is also the way many global arms and oil tycoons do business, Bush-Cheney's pals. Halliburton for instance has many Cayman Islands accounts so they can avoid paying US taxes. Clinton apologized for this pardon which he did for a variety of reasons, certainly not just for $200,000 to his library. WorldCom BTW gave Trent Lott a million for his library before he was even close to having one. I don't hear the rightwing complaining about that.