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PARDONS PAVING WAY FOR PICKING POCKETS
Sunday,January 21,2001
By STEVE DUNLEAVY
"TO err is human, to forgive is divine."
Now whatever sunshine boy said that didn't have the unhealthy
cynicism that daunts so many of us.
I look with jaundiced eye at the pardons granted by Bill Clinton.
OK, his brother Roger, who did 18 months for pushing cocaine.
Now giving Roger a pardon means he can vote.
Good old boy Rog who wants to make it in Hollywood and loves to
go to topless bars, wouldn't vote at a dog show.
But, fair enough if you can't give your brother a pardon, who can
you pardon?
And then there was Susan McDougal, who was up to her ears in the
turbulent rapids of Whitewater.
She did 21/2 years, kept her mouth shut, didn't rat out Clinton
and was a stand-up broad. Yeah, I can see that pardon.
But now the cynicism.
Patty Hearst pardoned?
After she became one of the most spectacular fugitives of the
century she suddenly became a footnote to history.
And believe me, that's the way she wanted it. And if you ask
people on the street, sure they would know who Patty Hearst is,
but a question mark would cross their faces if you said she had
been pardoned. What? Why? When? How? And who cares?
OK, another name. Marc Rich, not a name with the same resonance
of familiarity as Patty. Marc who? Well, back in 1983 he fled
to Meggen, Switzerland, where he lived in luxurious exile. He
flew the coop after then-federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani nailed
him on 51 counts of racketeering, wire fraud and income-tax
evasion to the tune of $48 million, then the biggest tax dodge in
history.
He comfortably stared out of FBI wanted posters which fazed him
naught as he continued to make his fortunes as a financier and
commodities trader as brilliant as few had ever seen on Wall
Street. All right, the crunch. So why are Patty Hearst and Marc
Rich so significant in Bill's list of largesse?
Simply put, Patty Hearst is the heiress of the staggering Hearst
fortune.
And Marc Rich, whether hiding in Switzerland or walking free on
Wall Street, all he has to do is look at a tree to turn it into
gold.
Marc's former wife, Denise, in the past five years has been one
of the biggest Democratic fund-raisers in the country.
Bill doesn't need campaign money now even though Barbra Streisand
and Hollywood would happily pony up.
But Hillary sure as hell does.
Cynical? Heck no. Right now there are already campaign chests
being filled for Hillary's political ambitions even before she's
warmed the seat on the Senate floor.
Hello, Mark, come in from the cold, good to see you, Patty, but
it's going to cost you down the road.
Twenty-four hours after Clinton pulled his own cut-and-run gig,
he hogged the cameras after yesterday's inauguration, which
prompted commentator Fred Barnes to say on Fox television:
"It gave rich new meaning to self-indulgence."
Clinton, who hung around for more than an hour, posing and
shaking hands at Andrews Air Force Base before flying to New
York, said:
"I'm leaving the White House but I'm still here."
And then more telling: "You've got a senator here who will be a
voice for you."
Money is the root of all political lust, and as I look into that
beautifully clear crystal ball, you know that already the tapping
of the fat cats like lawbreakers Patty Hearst and Marc Rich is a
perfectly drawn blueprint for a heist of the pocket.
A huge campaign chest for Hillary's presidential campaign in
2004, getting money, like her husband from wherever she can - you
bet you can see it, walking down the Midtown tunnel at midnight
and blindfolded.
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