The Clinton Files/CASE 17/1999–2005

Money

The last-day pardons

Marc Rich, Hugh Rodham’s fees, and the FALN

The White House north façade, July 2007. A later architectural view, not a photograph of a particular investigation.
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RECORD / AT A GLANCE

Pardons documented / bribery unproven

The pardon power is the president’s alone, and the Rich pardon skipped normal Justice Department review. The donations and the Rodham fees are documented. A bribery case was investigated and closed without charges.

THE EVENTS / THE INVESTIGATION / THE STORY

The chronology.

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Evidence & assessment.

01

Marc Rich

A fugitive’s pardon that went around the normal process.

↗02

Hugh Rodham’s fees

Hillary Clinton’s brother was paid to win two clemencies.

↗03

The FALN clemency

Clemency for members of a group behind bombings; none had been convicted of a bombing.

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OPEN THE RECORD

Sources & limits.

Numbered citations in each article identify the relevant sources. These records have different purposes and evidentiary weight.

  1. DOJ: Pardons granted by President William J. Clinton ↗

    Dated original record; distinguish the proceeding, institutional perspective and outcome described.

  2. Federal court: In re Grand Jury Subpoenas, December 13, 2001 ↗

    Dated original record; distinguish the proceeding, institutional perspective and outcome described.

  3. Pardon Attorney Roger Adams: Senate testimony, February 14, 2001 ↗

    Dated original record; distinguish the proceeding, institutional perspective and outcome described.

  4. 2019 House hearing record: pardon bribery investigations and the closed Rich inquiry ↗

    Dated original record; distinguish the proceeding, institutional perspective and outcome described.

  5. House Report 107-454: Justice Undone, volume 1 ↗

    Dated original record; distinguish the proceeding, institutional perspective and outcome described.

  6. ABC News: Denise Rich gave $450,000 to Clinton library, 10 Feb 2001 ↗

    Contemporaneous report on the library gifts, their timing and her use of the Fifth Amendment before the House committee.

  7. Los Angeles Times: Hugh Rodham to return pardon fees, 22 Feb 2001 ↗

    Contemporaneous report of the roughly $400,000 he was paid on two clemency cases.

  8. CNN: FALN members accept clemency, 10 Sep 1999 ↗

    Contemporaneous report of the offer, the conditions and who accepted.

  9. CNN: Senate votes 95–2 to condemn the FALN clemency, 14 Sep 1999 ↗

    Contemporaneous report of the House and Senate resolutions.

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