Mr. Rich and his partner, Pincus Green, were indicted in 1983 on more than 50 counts of tax evasion, racketeering and trading with Iran.

She has complained that she was not told in advance that Mr. Clinton would grant pardons to Mr. Rich and his partner, Pincus Green.

Mr. Rich and his partner, Pincus Green, remain fugitives in Switzerland.

To the Editor: "Financier's Partner Remained Loyal Lieutenant Throughout" (news article, Feb. 20) notes that Marc Rich and Pincus Green renounced their American citizenship.

Pincus Green (born 1936) is an American oil and gas commodities trader whose net worth is estimated by Forbes magazine at $1.2 billion USD.

The analysis concluded that Mr. Rich and his partner, Pincus Green, whom Mr. Clinton also pardoned, had paid all the taxes they owed on the commodity transactions in question.

The most controversial pardons went to Marc Rich and his partner, Pincus Green.

But it surely does not describe Mr. Rich or his former partner, Pincus Green, both of whom fled the country to escape the judicial process.

He used initials for Pincus Green and Marc Rich; he used "potus" as shorthand for "president of the United States."

The inquiry started as Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee today sharply criticized the pardon of Mr. Rich and his partner, Pincus Green.