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As today Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich comes into view again, Sterling's mentioning on page 257 in Thieves'World is relevant. Rich shifted great sums according to that book and the sum total of taxes not paid may come out. Depriving Treasury of such substantial revenue via a pardon is beyond the pale. Bill Clinton's pardon looks like having to do with the Clinton Foundation. I do not know how much water that allegation holds, but make the reference here so it doesn't get swept under the carpet in the election noise. 2001:8003:A037:8C00:D420:AC22:DA6B:D921 (talk) 03:58, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Her book "Crime without Frontiers" (ISBN 0 7515 1350 4) could theoretically offer an explanation for Carlos Ghosn's escape from Tokyo, even the case he is now not going to answer. Sterling describes in that book how the Japanese Yakuza have a different MO to their Italian mafia colleagues. The Japanese go after the big companies, of which Nissan was one. It is unthinkable that they had not targeted Nissan. Ghosn would have obliged and while he pulled out some money from the company for them, he got himself a commission but did not include that in his tax forms. That book ought to be better known. But Sterling was also a member of the elite or establishment. She describes an evening with the late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl which you do not get unless you are considered important. Little did she know that Kohl got his position through the corruption which she criticises in her book. Cologne TV WDR broadcasted a docu a year or two ago: Industry paid off Rainer Barzel so he'd make way for Kohl. The principles and MO which Sterling describes have not died with her 25 years ago. 2001:8003:A02F:F400:3039:38D4:B235:3366 (talk) 23:01, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]