White House Petition to Investigate Seth Rich Murder Goes Viral as Reward Tops $345K
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/white-house-petition-reward-seth-rich-killer/
Now, a petition has been created to force the president’s hand to open an official investigation, called, “WE THE PEOPLE ASK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO CALL ON CONGRESS TO ACT ON AN ISSUE.” The petition is asking the president to, “Appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate the murder of Seth Rich, the alleged Wikileaks email leaker.” The petition was created by someone only known as “J.F.” on May 19, 2017. Already, over 25,000 signatures have been obtained of the needed 100,000, requesting the White House to open an official investigation into his killing.
OK, another mystery ....
is financier Marc Rich in any way related to Seth Rich?
March 30, 2016 - Judicial Watch, pursuing the Clintons like Inspector Javert for two decades, scores again
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/30/judicial-watch-pursuing-the-clintons-like-inspector-javert-since-before-the-millennium/?utm_term=.f0bb8c17980b
If you, like at least a quarter of the American electorate, were not born or were still in footies or watching “Barney” when the first Hillary Clinton “scandal” made the cover of Time magazine in 1994 for “clouding her image,” fret not. A conservative watchdog group called “Judicial Watch,” which was on the case then, is still on it now and is more than happy to fill you in.
Its band of expert Freedom of Information Act lawyers — and make no mistake, they are good — continue to plumb the depths of what was called in the mid-’90s the “Whitewater controversy,” the “Whitewater scandal” or the “vast right-wing conspiracy.”
In fact, just this week, Judicial Watch announced it was “asking a federal court to order the National Archives and Records Administration to release draft criminal indictments of Hillary Clinton” stemming from that probe.
While others were tried and convicted after an independent counsel probe, Clinton was not charged with breaking any laws.
And if you’ve never heard of, or have long forgotten,
the blazing controversy surrounding Bill Clinton’s “last-minute pardon” of then-fugitive financier Marc Rich, the husband of a big donor to Clinton’s presidential library, as he left office in 2001, Judicial Watch has a big file on that too.
The same goes for such relics as the “Travelgate” affair (vintage 1995, involving first lady Hillary Clinton and the White House travel office); the suicide of White House aide Vince Foster; all of Bill Clinton’s alleged women, of course; the “pimping out of the Lincoln Bedroom,” as Judicial Watch puts it; and everything and anything Clinton through the mist of time to the present.
When it comes to the Clintons, with thousands of FOIA requests and related lawsuits, Judicial Watch hardly needs the National Archives. It’s got its own. “Here at Judicial Watch,” its website says, we’ve had a long relationship with Bill and Hillary Clinton. …We know the Clintons well.”
When it comes to the Clintons and Judicial Watch, Inspector Javert in “Les Miserables” comes to mind in his relentless pursuit “across the years” of Jean Valjean. But Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch’s president, says his organization is not just about Clinton or Democrats, noting that its FOIA wars have been fought with officials of the George W. Bush administration as well, most notably then-Vice President Dick Cheney.
On Tuesday, as The Washington Post’s Spencer Hsu reported,
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington ruled Judicial Watch may question the State Department and potentially several top aides to Democratic presidential contender Clinton about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. The questioning would be in connection with comments about the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, by Susan E. Rice, then the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Lamberth’s decision, as Hsu reported, came about five weeks after another federal judge in Washington, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, ruled that current and former top State Department and Clinton aides could be questioned under oath about her email arrangement in a separate Judicial Watch FOIA case.
On Feb. 26, after Sullivan’s decision, Clinton dismissed it as nothing to worry about. It was just the work of “right-wing outfits,” she said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “I’m not concerned about them.”
But she should be concerned, very concerned. (Article continues.)
Marc Rich, the trader known as the "King of Commodities" whose controversial 2001 pardon by President Bill Clinton just hours before he left office unleashed a political firestorm of criticism in 2001, died on Wednesday. He was 78.
June 26, 2013 - Financier Marc Rich dies in Switzerland
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2013/06/26/marc-rich-dies-at-78/2458847/
Rich died of a stroke in a hospital in Lucerne, Switzerland, near to his longtime home, according to the Marc Rich Group. His Israel-based spokesman, Avner Azulay, said Rich would be buried in Israel on Thursday.
Rich fled from the United States to Switzerland in 1983 after he was indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury on more than 50 counts of fraud, racketeering, trading with Iran during the U.S. Embassy hostage crisis and evading more than $48 million in income taxes — crimes that could have earned him more than 300 years in prison.
Rich remained on the FBI's Most Wanted List, narrowly escaping capture in Finland, Germany, Britain and Jamaica, until
Clinton granted him a pardon on Jan. 20, 2001 - the day he handed over the keys to the White House to George W. Bush.
Rich's pardon catapulted him into the headlines once again.
According to Federal Election Commission records, Rich's ex-wife, songwriter Denise Rich, gave $201,000 in political donations to the Democratic Party in 2000 as lawyers for the fugitive financier pressed the U.S. government to drop the case. Rich's attorneys turned to Clinton when the Justice Department refused to negotiate.
Federal authorities investigated but found no evidence of wrongdoing, while election officials also dismissed a complaint accusing Denise Rich of donating campaign money and furniture to Hillary Clinton in exchange for the pardon. Bill Clinton also denied any wrongdoing and said he acted on advice by prominent legal experts not connected to the trader.
Eric Holder, the current U.S. attorney general, was deputy attorney general to Clinton, and recommended Rich's pardon.
Only weeks later, however, he told the House Government Reform Committee: "Knowing everything that I know now, I would not have recommended to the president that he grant the pardon."
Despite strong diplomatic pressure Switzerland had refused to treat Rich — a billionaire trader in oil, metals and other commodities — as a criminal or hand him over to the United States, because it had different tax laws and no embargo against Iran
"In our business we're not political," Rich said in a rare 1992 interview with NBC. "That's just the philosophy of our company."
Rich was born in Antwerp, Belgium, on Dec. 18, 1934. His Jewish family fled from the Nazis to the United States, where Rich went to school and college in New York.
After dropping out of college, Rich went to work for the commodity traders Phillips Brothers, now called Phibro, in New York. He quickly got the knack of trading and in 1967 was sent by the company to work in Madrid, where he met Pincus "Pinky" Green, his future partner.
In 1973, Rich and Green left the company after arguing over the size of their bonuses. They set up Marc Rich and Co., based in the Swiss town of Zug, whose low taxes have made it one of the world's oil trading centers.
Business boomed. Rich specialized in acting as a middle man for purchases in global trouble spots — such as Iran, apartheid-era South Africa or Cuba and Libya during U.S. trade embargoes.
Rich and Green were the first traders to use short-term purchases, now known as the spot market, to make big money, quickly. Buying large volumes when the price was low, they were able to control the market when prices rose.
In 1983, Rich fled to Switzerland to escape charges against him. In his absence, Rich's companies pleaded guilty to the charges, paying fines of about $130 million.
"It's an unfortunate situation," Rich told NBC. "But the question is, was there crime? And I'm saying I don't think so."
He added that as Marc Rich and Co. was a Swiss company, it was legal for the firm to do business with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's Iran.
Swiss authorities did not consider his alleged crimes grounds for extradition.
Rich worked on making himself popular by becoming a major philanthropist, giving money to the arts and charities in the hope of building good contacts and guarding against extradition. He renounced his U.S. citizenship and became a citizen both of Israel and Spain.
But he earned the hatred of U.S. labor unions during the 1990-92 Ravenswood Aluminum Corp. strike in West Virginia.
His company was a part-owner of Ravenswood Aluminum, whose workers accused Rich of locking 1,500 steelworkers out of the plant when their contract expired and hiring replacement workers without negotiating.
The union won the 20-month labor battle, but not before union members picketed outside Rich's Swiss offices.
Rich had married the former Denise Eisenberg, a New York socialite, in 1966. They divorced in 1992. After that she contributed $450,000 to Clinton's presidential library foundation and more than $100,000 to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign.
In 1993, Rich sold his own company — which was then renamed Glencore, now the world's largest commodity trader — and set up a new firm, Marc Rich and Co. Holding, also based in Zug.
Although a Russian firm, Crown Resources, tried to buy its commodities unit in 2001, the buyout fell through and Rich remained active in the trading business.
After spending several years in Zug, Rich moved to "La Villa Rose" on the shores of Lake Lucerne in nearby Meggen. He also owned property in the swish ski resort of St. Moritz and in Marbella, on the south coast of Spain.
Rich married again, to German-born Gisela Rossi, in 1998. They divorced in 2005. Rich had two daughters, Ilona Schachter-Rich and Danielle Kilstock Rich.
Denise Eisenberg met Marc Rich on a blind date, engineered by her father, shoe manufacturer Emil Eisenberg.[18] They married in 1966 and had three children, Daniella, Ilona, and Gabrielle.[9][15][19] They divorced in 1996.[20]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Eisenberg_Rich
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