QUESTIONS ASKED Denise Rich (Would YOU call them 'self incriminating'
.. falling under the 5th?)

On Feb. 5, the committee chaired by Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., sent Rich a
list of 14 questions regarding her support of the
presidential pardon for her ex-husband. Included in the list were
questions regarding her sizable contributions to Hillary Clinton's
Senate campaign and the Democratic National Committee, as well as other
personal gifts to the Clintons. The unfolding information on Denise
Rich's coping of the 5th was related to questions submitted to her
including these questions:

Were her donations to the Democratic National Committee and Clinton
Foundation her own money?

Where did she get the money?

Was someone else's money funneled through her to give to the DNC and
Clinton Library?

How much did she give the Clinton Library?

ANSWER: I respectfully refuse to answer these questions based on the
grounds that it may tend to incriminate me. (i.e. 5th Amendment)

Clinton, when elected, signed an executive order for ethics in
government banning all workers in the Administration from lobbying the
White House for 5 years following their departure from employment.
Clinton in effect gave Jack Quinn (former White House lawyer) a pardon
himself by eradicating that order days before this deal was announced so
as not to put Jack Quinn in violation of the law by representing a
client before the President in the pursuit of a pardon. In so doing he
freed ALL former White employees from this ethics restraint. So much
for Clintons original pledge to have the most ethical administration in
history, which is only emphasised by vacating his ethic rule in the last
days of his term.
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Denise Rich Pleads Fifth; Quinn, Holder Face Burton Committee
Thursday, February 8, 2001

WASHINGTON — Denise Rich has invoked her 5th Amendment right against
self-incrimination in response to questions
submitted to her by the House Government Reform committee investigating
President Clinton's pardon of her ex-husband,
fugitive financier Marc Rich. Since 1992, Rich has contributed more
than $1 million to the Clintons and the Democrats. But on Wednesday,
Rich's attorney, Carol Elder Bruce, informed the Committee that Rich
would be asserting her Fifth Amendment privilege.

And on Wednesday night, Rich's attorney informed Burton that Rich had
given an "enormous sum of money" to the Clinton
Presidential Library fund, according to sources close to the
investigation. Rich has not yet disclosed how much money she has
given to the fund.

Other Clinton Pals in the Hot Seat

On Thursday, Marc Rich's attorney, Jack Quinn, appeared before the House
Government Reform Committee. Quinn worked in the White House from 1993
to 1997, first as a chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore and later
as counsel to the president.

But Quinn has drawn the most attention recently for helping Rich secure
perhaps the most controversial of the 176 pardons
granted by Clinton on the last day of his presidency. On Rich's behalf,
Quinn appealed directly to Clinton to pardon the
commodities trader who fled to Europe in 1983 to evade charges of tax
fraud and illegally buying oil from Iran.

Federal prosecutors expressed outrage at the last-minute pardon because
Quinn did not first submit the application to Justice
Department officials for review. Such a move would have shined a
spotlight on the case and allowed prosecutors to lobby
against the pardon.

Clinton and Quinn have denied any impropriety. Quinn has insisted that
the appeal was never a secret and that he alerted Deputy Attorney
General Eric Holder weeks before the Jan. 20 pardon.

Holder has not publicly commented since the controversy erupted two
weeks ago, but he and two former federal prosecutors
on the Rich case are also scheduled to testify before the House
committee.

Committee spokeswoman Josie Duckett said Quinn "has been very
cooperative" with investigators and that the panel members
hope to sort out "the issue of who knew what when." Two other Clinton
advisers, former counsels Beth Nolan and Bruce
Lindsey, canceled their appearances because of scheduling conflicts,
according to Duckett.

There are no plans to extend the hearing past one day, she said, or to
call the former president as a witness. "It's not about
Clinton," she said. "It's about the process." The Senate Judiciary
Committee is set to open a similar hearing on the Rich pardon next
week. President Bush has avoided weighing in on the subject. His
spokesman, Ari Fleischer, said Bush has no plans to overturn the pardon.

Rich, 65, continues to operate from Switzerland. It's not clear whether
he will return to the United States, where federal officials
once offered a $750,000 reward for his capture.

Fox News' Jim Mills and FOXNews.com's John P. Martin contributed to this
report

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I got above emails from someone, and here is what he said

Denise Rich, former wife and current advocate for Marc Rich, claimed the
5th amendment regarding questions submitted by the Congressional
investigation on Clinton's specious pardon. Yesterday it came to light
(via her own attorney) that she has donated "an enormous sum of money"
to the Clinton Presidential Library (tax deductible) fund from which
Clinton now is converting some of to his personal use. Accordingly,
Denise is coping the 5th and Bruce Lindsey and Beth Nolan (Clinton
Advisors) unavailable for the Congressional investigation due to
"scheduling conflicts." Rich attorney and former White House attorney
Jack Quinn are claiming that Clinton didn't issue the pardon because of
a Quid Pro Quo concerning political contributions. I suspect he is
right and that the Quid Pro Quo is due to direct bribes to Clinton via
offshore accounts and laundering of other funds through the "Clinton
Presidential Library" fund. s. cannell
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Carol Joy