To: Steve Lokness who wrote (42623 ) 10/30/2017 11:38:13 AM From: Katelew Read Replies (2) | Respond to Trump could follow the Clinton playbook and issue the pardon as he's leaving office. Marc Rich was charged with almost the same things as Manafort, including conspiracy against the United States.edit ]2001 The Controversial Pardon of International Fugitive Marc Rich Pincus Green were indicted on 65 criminal counts, including income tax evasion, wire fraud , racketeering , and trading with Iran during the oil embargo (at a time when Iranian revolutionaries were still holding American citizens hostage ). [7] [18] The charges would have led to a sentence of more than 300 years in prison had Rich been convicted on all counts. [18] The indictment was filed by then- U.S. Federal Prosecutor (and future mayor of New York City) Rudolph Giuliani . At the time it was the biggest tax evasion case in U.S. history. [19] [8] to Switzerland and, always insisting that he was not guilty, never returned to the U.S. to answer the charges. [Notes 1] Rich's companies eventually pleaded guilty to 35 counts of tax evasion and paid $90 million in fines, [7] although Rich himself remained on the Federal Bureau of Investigation 's Ten Most-Wanted Fugitives List for many years, [21] narrowly evading capture in Britain, Germany, Finland, and Jamaica. [22] Fearing arrest, he did not even return to the United States to attend his daughter's funeral in 1996. [23] presidential pardon . Several of Clinton's strongest supporters distanced themselves from the decision. [24] Former President Jimmy Carter , a fellow Democrat, said, "I don't think there is any doubt that some of the factors in his pardon were attributable to his large gifts. In my opinion, that was disgraceful." [25] Clinton himself later expressed regret for issuing the pardon, saying that "it wasn't worth the damage to my reputation." [8]
