Sensational details ab… “If you are too proud,” Rich told Ammann, “you don’t do business.”He now reveals that Rich kept Israel alive through boycotts by supplying the country with oil, much of it from its archenemies in Iran. And a letter from former Mossad chief Shabtai Shavit to Clinton confirming that Rich provided “assistance” to the Israeli spy agency that produced results “beyond the expected” was among the documents released last week by Rich’s lawyer Jack Quinn to support the Rich pardon. They were on the spot.
“Rich confirmed to me that the Iranian government perfectly knew about it and they didn’t care…Behind the scenes, they just wanted to sell their oil.
When the conspiracy theorists blame the "Jesuits", they mean the Catholics. The two men had set up their own business in 1974 and hit it big after becoming trading legends at Philipp Brothers, the commodities unit of Salomon Brothers on Wall Street.Rich had roiled the United States by secretly enabling Iran to sell its oil after its new regime had seized the American Embassy and 53 hostages in 1979.After two years under Justice Department investigation, Rich and Green, who handled the logistics of shipping commodities, decided to flee the United States in 1983. Thanks for contacting us. “They weren’t dealing from the U.S. or Switzerland. Ammann, business editor of the Swiss weekly Die Weltwoche, approached Rich as a business and organizational genius.
Now that Michael Manley is dead, I can reveal that he was my primary source for that story; he had denounced the deal before being elected as Jamaica’s prime minister and then claimed he held his nose as he was forced by his country’s economic circumstances to deal with Rich. He now reveals that Rich kept Israel alive through boycotts by supplying the country with oil, much of it from its archenemy Iran. (Giuliani’s office declined repeated requests from The Daily Beast for comment.
from Russia Insider:. They led the way in corrupting the police and city hall." Billionaire Marc Rich lived a double life during his 20 years as a fugitive, funneling secret data to Israeli and other intelligence services about some unsavory governments. Lawyers close to the case say there is no doubt that Rich had contacts with spies and security services throughout Europe and the Middle East. “In the end, it was Marc Rich buying Iranian oil and selling it to Israel and South Africa,” says Ammann. Let’s say Iran after the 1979 revolution. Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Asked whether security and intelligence considerations involving the United States played any role in the Rich pardon, a former Clinton aide said, “I simply don’t know.” Nazi Germany looks more and more like Israel, or vice versa. "If Marc Mukasey, the Attorney General's son, can be the lawyer for Giuliani closed down the local, mainly Italian-American, mafias.
"Rich set up in Zug, Switzerland, and became one of the most important figures in busting the oil embargoes against apartheid South Africa, Iran, and, later, Iraq.
Both Marc Rich and Scooter Libby developed a very close relationship to the Israeli government and especially the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence group. A storm of controversy has erupted over the unusual way the Rich pardon was handled, as well as over the involvement of Rich’s ex-wife, Denise Rich, who raised $1 million for the Democratic party and gave the Clintons $7,000 in furniture for their new homes. For me and dozens of other reporters who have intermittently chased Marc Rich over the last three decades, the commodities trader has been the man most tantalizingly on the lam.Now comes the journalistic coup by Daniel Ammann, an intrepid Swiss business journalist who, after years of trying to interview Rich, sits down, writes him a long letter full of loaded questions, and astonishingly convinces Rich to be interviewed at length—on the record—for “When it comes to business, I don’t think Marc Rich has any regrets,” says Ammann of the trader who never met a head of state he believed was incorruptible.
"Zug’s former Mayor, Othmar Kamer, reportedly said: "We have six large tax contributors who influence our financial budget. I was shaken to the core at the language and behavior.
Rich and partner Pincus Green fled the country in 1983 ahead of federal charges that they ripped off taxpayers for $48 million. Rich is now 74, so for those who are too young to remember him, let’s just say he was one of the world’s smoothest and greatest villains. THE GUY IN THAT PIC I DOUBT ITS OSAMA BIN LADEN.... They were there. Rich was born in 1934 to a Jewish family in Antwerp, Belgium. Shabtai Shavit, Israeli Mossad director in 1989-1996, wrote President Clinton in a letter requesting a pardon for the fugitive financier Marc Rich: “Mr. Sensational details about Rich’s ultimate high-wire act as a spy for Israel and other countries were provided to The Post as congressional committees prepare to hold hearings into former President Bill Clinton’s controversial decision to pardon the fugitive commodities trader.
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