''In 1983, Rich and partner Pincus Green were indicted by U.S.
Attorney and future mayor of New York City Rudolph Giuliani, on
charges of tax evasion and illegal trading with Iran. Both of them
fled to Switzerland before a court appearance, and they remained on
the FBI's Most Wanted List for many years.

On January 20, 2001, hours before leaving office, President Bill
Clinton granted Rich a presidential pardon. Since Rich's former wife
and mother of his three children, socialite Denise Rich, had made
large donations to the Democratic Party and the Clinton Library during
Clinton's time in office, Clinton's critics alleged that Rich's pardon
had been bought. Rich had also made substantial donations to Israeli
charitable foundations. Clinton explained his decision by noting that
similar situations were settled in civil, not criminal court, and
cited clemency pleas from Israeli government officials, including
Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Federal Prosecutor Mary Jo White was
appointed to investigate. She stepped down before the investigation
was finished and was replaced by James Comey. Though Comey was
critical of Clinton's pardons, he could not find any grounds on which
to indict him.

During hearings after Rich's pardon, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who had
represented Rich from 1985 until the spring of 2000, denied that Rich
had violated the tax laws, but criticized him for trading with Iran at
a time when that country was holding U.S. hostages. In his letter to
the New York Times, Bill Clinton explained why he pardoned Rich,
noting that U.S. tax professors Bernard Wolfman of Harvard Law School
and Martin Ginsburg of Georgetown University Law Center concluded that
no crime was committed, and that the companies' tax reporting position
was reasonable. [New York Times, February 18, 2001][2]. In the same
letter Clinton listed Libby as one of three "distinguished Republican
lawyers" who supported Rich's pardon.

In 2007 Libby himself received a presidential commutation of sentence
following his perjury conviction in the Plame affair.''
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