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NYTimes
February 18, 2001
A Clinton Fund-Raiser Is Said to Be Behind Gifts in Rich Case
By JILL ABRAMSON
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 — Donations to the Clinton presidential
library from Denise Rich, the former wife of the fugitive
financier Marc Rich, were solicited by Beth Dozoretz, a prominent
Democratic Party fund-raiser, two individuals knowledgeable about
the library's funding said today.
Terry McAuliffe, the chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, and Ms. Dozoretz said Ms. Rich pledged in 1998 to
give $350,000. Through Ms. Dozoretz, Ms. Rich made three
separate donations to the library: $250,000 in 1998; $100,000 in
1999; and $100,000 in 2000, the fund- raisers said. The last
installment, in the year that a lobbying campaign to win a
presidential pardon for Mr. Rich intensified, came after Ms.
Rich had already filled her original pledge for $350,000.
The donations and their possible link to the pardons are under
investigation in Congress.
In separate interviews today, both Ms. Dozoretz and Mr.
McAuliffe denied that Mr. McAuliffe had solicited donations from
Ms. Rich.
"Denise Rich's contributions were solicited by others," Mr.
McAuliffe said. He also said he had "no involvement in the Marc
Rich pardon."
Ms. Dozoretz said, "I have no knowledge of Terry soliciting
Denise Rich for the D.N.C. or the library." She declined further
comment.
In an article published in The New York Times today, two senior
Democratic Party officials described competition between Ms.
Dozoretz and Mr. McAuliffe over who deserved the greater share
of credit for soliciting donations from Ms. Rich.
A day earlier, two top Democratic Party officials had said that
Mr. McAuliffe had originally brought in Ms. Rich, an allegation
he denied today. Also on Friday, Ms. Dozoretz had said, "my
involvement at the library was minimal."
In interviews today, Mr. McAuliffe and Ms. Dozoretz each denied
there was friction between them. Mr. McAuliffe said he had never
kept Ms. Dozoretz out of library planning meetings, and said
that Denise Rich was not discussed at such meetings.
Mr. Clinton wrote an article on the Op-Ed page of The New York
Times on Sunday in which he categorically denied that
contributions by Ms. Rich influenced his decision to grant Mr.
Rich a pardon.
In the article, Mr. Clinton said that three prominent Republican
lawyers had favored the pardon. But all three denied that today.
Leonard Garment, a former official in the Nixon administration
who worked on Mr. Rich's behalf from 1984 to 1993, said, "It is
absolutely false that I knew about and endorsed the idea of a
pardon." Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman, said that Mr.
Clinton misstated the role of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief
of staff, Lewis Libby, a former lawyer for Mr. Rich. "While Mr.
Libby was involved in the original case concerning Mr. Rich, he
was in no way, shape, manner or form involved in the pardon," Mr.
Fleischer said. The third Republican, William Bradford Reynolds,
also denied tonight that he played any role in the pardon.
"I never reviewed nor advocated the pardon," said Mr. Reynolds,
a senior lawyer in the Reagan administration. "I first learned
of it when everyone else did and I was as astonished as everybody
else was."
Mr. Reynolds said that he was involved in the Rich case earlier
in the 1990's when he represented Mr. Rich in plea-bargain
negotiations in New York and that there was "no discussion of a
pardon."
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