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Pardoning Marc Rich was “a mistake,” President-elect Barack Obama said. President Bill Clinton pardoned the financier on the eve of Clinton’s departure from office in 2001. Rich had moved to Switzerland in the early 1980s, fleeing racketeering and tax evasion charges. He sought the pardon because he wanted to return to the United States. Making […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315