The prosecutor overseeing investigations into pardons of Marc Rich and Hasidic Jews is resigning her post. Mary Jo White, who served for eight years as U.S. attorney in Manhattan, has been investigating the controversial pardons President Clinton gave to philanthropist Marc Rich, his partner and leaders of a Chasidic community that supported Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Senate bid.
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