Denise Rich, the wealthy liberal socialite who convinced Bill Clinton to give a pardon to her ex-hubby Marc, has renounced her American citizenship to save tens of millions in taxes.
Marc, by the way, was not suffering in some dingy prison when he got the papers telling him he was a free man. He was in Switzerland where he had been staying when the indictment came down that he was being charged with tax evasion and illegally making oil deals with Iran during the Iran hostage crisis. He naturally never returned to the U.S.
How Denise got him the pardon is a matter of some speculation.
As Sir John Harrington once said, “Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”