But the most controversial is the pardon of Marc Rich and his partner Pincus Green.
After all, he had learned the business from mysterious oil trader Marc Rich.
There he became a successor to infamous trader Marc Rich, who had left the company in 1973.
American Denise Rich, ex-wife of notorious oil trader Marc Rich, who was controversially pardoned by President Clinton.
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However, January 2001 came and went leaving tax fugitive Marc Rich a free man, but Whitacre behind bars.
Dauphin got his start working at Marc Rich AG, now Glencore AG.
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Davis financed his acquisition of Twentieth Century Fox in 1981 with bank loans and an investment from fugitive Marc Rich.
Marc Rich, an oil trader, fled to Switzerland in 1983, after being accused of tax evasion and illegal deals with Iran.
Glencore was founded by controversial U.S financier and former fugitive Marc Rich.
And there's the infamous duo of fugitive commodities traders Marc Rich and Pincus Green, who were pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 2001.
Such associations are astonishing for this tough, Brooklyn-born prosecutor who nailed gangsters like Paul Castellano and white-collar felons like Marc Rich, Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken.
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But he is tangentially implicated in some of the grubbier episodes of the Bill Clinton era, including Mr Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich, a fugitive financier.
As the Soviet Union collapsed, he left to work for a steel-trading house in Zurich before setting up his own in Belgium, competing at times with Marc Rich.
President Bill Clinton left office with immunity from criminal prosecution and a flurry of pardons, including pardons for his half-brother Roger, Patty Hearst and a fugitive oil-trader, Marc Rich.
The former official also said he was confident a flap over Clinton's pardon of commodities trader Marc Rich would not be a major hurdle for Holder with a Democratic Congress.
This is, after all, the country that a quarter-century ago provided refuge to billionaire commodities traders Marc Rich and Pincus Green after they were indicted in the U.S. for tax evasion.
Laws which were meant to ferret out criminals like Marc Rich (who was conveniently pardoned by President Clinton just before he left office) have succeeded in entrapping millions of Americans abroad.
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During confirmation hearings, Republicans questioned his role in former President Bill Clinton's widely criticized last-minute pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich and questioned whether he would be independent of the White House.
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott on Friday questioned the wisdom of a suggestion by a fellow Republican that former President Clinton be called to Capitol Hill to explain his last-minute pardon of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich.
They seemed secretive and even suspicious, especially to those who saw them as the descendants of Marc Rich, the billionaire commodities trader who was indicted and later pardoned by the U.S. government over shady Iranian oil deals.
Hollywood hitmakers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard of Imagine Entertainment plan to turn the Rich saga into a movie, based on the 2009 book by Swiss journalist Daniel Ammann, The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich.
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Even supposing they fail to dig up any new scandals, a quick glance at a list of the tabloids' current victims Mr Jackson, Mr Condit, Marc and Denise Rich, Rudy Giuliani and, of course, the Clintons reveals a lot more questions than answers.
Denise Rich, whose husband Marc was pardoned by President Clinton.
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