Posted on 01/04/2009 5:47:42 PM PST by CedarDave
Yet more for fodder for Obama’s attempt to make a world record of scandals involving his presidency and cabinet before the inaugaration. Bill Richardson withdrew his nomination today after a fishy whiff was in the breeze. Now we’ve got another fishy smell higher up the ladder.
WASHINGTON: A developer in New York state donated $100,000 to former President Bill Clinton’s foundation in November 2004, around the same time that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure millions of dollars in federal assistance for the businessman’s mall project.
Hillary Clinton helped enact legislation allowing the developer, Robert Congel, to use tax-exempt bonds to help finance the construction of the Destiny USA entertainment and shopping complex, an expansion of the Carousel Center in Syracuse.
She also helped secure a provision in a highway bill that set aside $5 million for Destiny USA roadway construction.
The bill with the tax-free bonds provision became law in October 2004, weeks before the donation, and the highway bill with the set-aside became law in August 2005, about nine months after the donation.
Congel and Philippe Reines, a spokesman for Hillary Clinton, both said there was no connection between his donation and her legislative work on his project’s behalf. Reines said the senator had supported the expansion of Carousel mall “purely as part of her unwavering commitment to improving upstate New York’s struggling economy, and nothing more.”
Wow,the Obama administration hasn’t even assumed office and the wheels are already falling off....
Gee. I thought the Obamedia told us that ALL DemocRATS are squeaky clean!
The charges against Clinton keep on coming and she keeps on moving ahead. If she killed a bus load of nuns and children on TV, she’d be let off the hook.
Maybe this appointment of Clinton - with subsequent discoveries made during the vetting process - was a clever way to knock her out as a competitor once & for all.
Well, if it snags Hillary too then I’d say “Brilliant Vetting” as Obama lets the confirmation process (or threat thereof) take out his closest political rivals. After all, the O-child is not used to sharing the limelight and why would he want so many chiefs in his cabinet?
GMTA
unless some R Senator has the balls to ask her about this during her confirmation hearing this will never see the light of day. Considering that they’re gutless I’m not counting on it.
While they focus on one obvious payoff to a Clinton donor, how about the gargantuan elephant in the room?
Didn’t Clinton get millions from oil rich Arab countries while both Clintons supported policies that sabotage our energy independence?
The Clintons now have the whole world to shake down!
Zero is a dangerous politician if he can manage that.
Isn’t Obama supposed to have the most ethical administration ever?
“Today I settled all family business”
What if they were ACORN affiliated gay nuns going to register the disenfranchised children to vote?
how ‘bout all of those msm commentators who have bragged about the speed with which comrade obamao put together his cabinet?
The entire Destiny USA project is a scam and Congel is a crook. He’s managed to dupe and/or pay off enough officials to keep to the mirage going, but the only destiny in store for Upstaters desperate for jobs is another bilking.
disenfranchised IMMIGRANT children
The Wheels on Obama’s bus go round and round, round and round, round and round. Obama’s not taken office yet and already scandal, first Blago, now this, well, we already know about Obama’s numerous associations but this wow, 4 years of scandal, will make the Clinton years of Scandal look tame compared to whats coming
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