Willy Strothotte, who played a key role in the history of commodity trading by leading the deal that created Glencore Plc, ...

He should issue pardons to critics of the incoming president. By Barry Werth It is more important than ever in an era of grossly excessive punishments and mass incarceration. By Rachel E. Barkow and ...

{mosads}Now besieged by other scandals, Holder, President Obama’s friend and his long-serving Attorney General, cannot be happy that that Rich’s name and the mess of a presidential pardon will be ...

Marc Rich, the former fugitive oil trader and founder of the commodities trading giant Glencore International, died on Wednesday in Lucerne, Switzerland. He was 78. The cause was a brain stroke at a ...

LUCERNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Billionaire Marc Rich, who invented modern oil trading and was pardoned by President Bill Clinton over tax evasion, racketeering and busting sanctions with Iran, died ...

GENEVA (AP) — Marc Rich, the trader known as the “King of Commodities” whose controversial 2001 pardon by President Bill Clinton just hours before he left office unleashed a political firestorm of ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Digging deep into the world of commodities trading was no easy task for Swiss-based author Daniel Ammann and his latest biography. "The King of Oil" is an exclusive, no-holds ...

President Obama’s top spokesman said Tuesday that the FBI did not consult the White House about its unexpected decision to release 129 pages of documents related to an investigation into President ...

GENEVA (AP) — He was a wheeler-dealer pardoned by another consummate dealmaker, a working-class Jewish boy who left Belgium to escape the Nazis and rose to become the billionaire “King of Commodities.

Marc Rich's connections to the rich and powerful not only made him fabulously wealthy but when he was indicted for fraud, racketeering and tax evasion on a grand scale, they helped secure him a pardon ...