Well, well, well....isn't this just so predictable?
Marc Rich - you remember him - if not, here is a refresher from a Time Magazine primer in 2001: President Clinton's eleventh-hour pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich has sparked a firestorm of controversy, launching investigations in both houses of Congress and igniting fierce protest from both Democrats and Republicans. The U.S. House and Senate have issued a rash of subpoenas calling for witnesses as well as financial records, as the House Government Reform Committee continued its hearings and the Senate Judiciary Committee geared up for its own proceedings....federal prosecutors in New York officially opened a criminal investigation into whether Rich did indeed buy his pardon with his ex-wife Denise's pointed largesse to the First Couple and the Democratic party.
So, now you are on the same page with me? Okay...fast forward to today:
The Washington Times is reporting: A federal grand-jury investigation of pardoned financier Marc Rich's role in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal has focused on whether he helped Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein reward the families of Palestinian bombers who carried out suicide attacks in Israel, sources said yesterday.
Oh yea, it is complicated - but oh, so predictable...Clinton and the Criminals...
Law-enforcement authorities and congressional investigators said the grand jury wants to know whether cash funneled to Saddam by oil traders — including Mr. Rich — to help arrange multimillion-dollar Iraqi oil deals for political leaders and well-heeled investors was used by the now-deposed dictator to pay the bombers' families.
We all know that Clinton allowed himself to be compromised by shady characters and shady deals just as long as the money continued to flow in his direction...but this - even I didn't fathom.
The story continues: The grand-jury probe centers on questions of whether Mr. Rich, pardoned by President Clinton on his last day in office in a pending $48 million income-tax-evasion case, brokered millions of dollars in deals between Saddam and other traders as part of the oil-for-food scandal, the sources said.
Did they just say $48 MILLION INCOME-TAX-EVASION CASE?? AND CLINTON PARDONED THIS CRIMINAL??
So now we know.
The pardoned criminal continued on his crime spree...and now he is involved - to WHATEVER extent - in blood money paid to murderers...
oh ya...Bubba is rich - he reminds us lowly schmucks every chance he (and his wife) get just how rich they are and how much taxes they have to pay...and a tax-evading criminal was pardoned and allowed to go his way...only to find out that he was involved in the U.N. oil-for-food-illegal-contract-payments-scheme that allowed Saddam Hussein to pay murdering bomber's families blood money for blowing innocent people to bloody, little, tiny pieces...
and people are even daring to consider Bubba's wife, Hillary, as a serious candidate for President of the United States of America??
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