-Caveat Lector- <http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/20/politics/20PINK.html> February 20, 2001 Financier's Partner Remained Loyal Lieutenant Throughout By ALISON LEIGH COWAN As lawyers and lobbyists for the fugitive financier Marc Rich hurried to orchestrate a pardon in the waning months of the Clinton administration, much attention was paid to getting the application just right. One detail that received special attention was whether the pardon application being prepared for the president should list two names, Mr. Rich and his longtime partner, Pincus Green, or just one, Marc Rich. Mr. Rich, who was born in Belgium, and Mr. Green, who was born in Brooklyn, met when they worked at Philipp Brothers, a commodities firm that was ultimately bought by Salomon Brothers, itself now part of Citigroup. They quit Philipp in 1974, contending that the company deprived them of a seven-figure bonus, and they started Marc Rich & Company. They fled the country in 1983 just ahead of a long list of federal charges, renouncing their citizenship and setting up shop in Switzerland. But private correspondence released as part of a recent Congressional hearing on the pardons shows that Mr. Rich's lawyers and advisers, many of whom also officially represented Mr. Green, debated whether they could afford to include him in their quest for a pardon. Even Mr. Rich implied that it might bolster his own chances to remove Mr. Green from the petition. In an e-mail message on Nov. 27, Mr. Rich told his closest advisers it was his inclination to submit the application "principally in my name," and expressed his hope that the addition of Mr. Green "will not detract significantly from the main objective," presumably his own pardon. Stephen Gillers, a professor of legal ethics at New York University School of Law, said that lawyers who represent two clients in a matter whose interests begin to diverge, "can't favor one over the other" without the "informed and unforced consent" of the client being let loose. But the correspondence also seems to show that Mr. Green did agree to stand aside. Another e-mail message , dated Dec. 27, reveals growing worries among Mr. Rich's advisers about including Mr. Green in the application, until Mr. Green, to the end Mr. Rich's loyal lieutenant, gave them an out. The e-mail message was written by Avner Azulay, the man who runs the Rich Foundation in Israel. He used initials for Pincus Green and Marc Rich; he used "potus" as shorthand for "president of the United States." "PG proposes that the option of dropping him from the petition be made available to potus if that can facilitate his decision on MR," the e- mail said. "This would qualify his decision as an individual humanitarian act rather than the solution to the legal case." That sense of loyalty does not surprise Rabbi Ronald Greenwald of Monsey, N.Y., a friend of Mr. Green's since high school who has visited Marc Rich & Company's offices in Zug, Switzerland. Despite the company's name, Rabbi Greenwald said, "they were partners, nobody was over the other one." He added that Mr. Green, known as Pinky, "was an anonymous guy; he didn't need his name on the door." The two men apparently had broken socially; Mr. Green was said to be unhappy with Mr. Rich because of his messy divorce with Denise Rich. But as business partners, they remained a team. In Switzerland, unfettered by restrictions governing Americans doing business abroad, they have since made a billion-dollar fortune trading all manner of commodities in the farthest reaches of the world. And as long as law enforcement officials in the United States refused to promise they could stay out of jail, the two fugitives refused to return for trial, convinced, they said, that they were victims of overzealous prosecution. Mr. Green did not respond to an interview request left with lawyers. The pardon application included letters of support, and Mr. Green's portion of it included testimonials from friends, relatives and the beneficiaries of his philanthropy. The petition noted that Mr. Rich had given away $100 million in the last 20 years, and Mr. Green, $120 million, often anonymously, including $3 million to build the Gvul Yaabetz synagogue in Flatbush, Brooklyn. At the Congressional hearing on Feb. 8, one prosecutor who brought the original case against Mr. Rich and Mr. Green mentioned their philanthropic spirit. Not that it "wipes out their guilt," said Martin J. Auerbach, who was the assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1983 to 1987, but nonetheless, "we were aware that particularly Mr. Green was an extremely charitable person. His religious beliefs preclude him from making money from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday. And so he chose to have his profits go into a charitable trust for that period." A letter from Mr. Green's son Robert, of London, said, "His sense of loyalty to others goes beyond the call of duty." In the end, the petition for both men went forward because it had already been delivered to the White House, and both men landed presidential pardons as one of Mr. Clinton's last acts in office. 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