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Roger Clinton's grand jury appearance delayed

Roger Clinton, in a 1998 file photo, was pardoned by former President Bill Clinton earlier this year, for a 1985 drug conviction.

(CNN) -- Roger Clinton's appearance before the federal grand jury investigating then-President Clinton's last-minute pardons has been postponed.

U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White subpoenaed the former president's younger brother to testify Friday about his role in the pardons.

Instead, Roger Clinton submitted documents and records. No new date has been set.

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Roger Clinton lobbied unsuccessfully for clemency for about five or six friends. He denies allegations that he was paid $200,000 for his efforts.

Roger Clinton was pardoned for a 1985 conviction on cocaine charges.

White is leading the Justice Department probe into the scandal surrounding the 176 people who were either pardoned or had their prison sentences commuted by Clinton on his last day in office.

The pardon of billionaire financier Marc Rich triggered the scandal, opening the door to the federal investigation.

Rich has been living in Switzerland since his 1983 indictment on charges of racketeering, wire fraud, illegal oil trading with Iran and evading more than $48 million in taxes. The financier was born in Belgium but grew up in the United States.

Rich's former wife Denise Rich has made more than $1.3 million in political contributions to the Democratic Party since 1993, including $70,000 to Hillary Clinton's campaign and $450,000 for the Clinton presidential library in Arkansas. She wrote a letter to the president in December, pleading with him to pardon her former husband.

The probe was expanded to investigate whether Clinton commuted the sentences of four Hasidic Jews in exchange for votes for his wife Hillary Clinton's successful Senate campaign.

A number of people close to the Clintons lobbied on behalf of people seeking clemency, including Hillary Clinton's brother Hugh Rodham, who received $400,000 to lobby for two wealthy felons. He later agreed to return the money. Former White House counsel Jack Quinn and Hillary Clinton's campaign treasurer William Cunningham III also lobbied the president.

CNN writer/editor Carol Clark contributed to this report.

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