Hillary Lends Her Campaign $5 Million – Where Did the Money Come From?

Judicial Watch ^ | Feb 8, 2008 | Tom Fitton

[reformjoy]

February 8, 2008

From the Desk of Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton:

 

Hillary Lends Her Campaign $5 Million – Where Did the Money Come From?

 

 

Last week, in this space I wrote that Bill Clinton’s business dealings around the world could create a conflict of interest with respect to Hillary’s position in the U.S. Senate and her candidacy for President of the United States.  This week, Hillary showed us all why we should be very concerned.

 

According to the New York Post:  “Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton loaned her campaign $5 million from her personal bank account late last month, officials acknowledged today -- a surprising twist in the deadlocked race for the Democratic nomination…The move came after Clinton's fundraising for January paled in comparison to rival Sen. Barack Obama's – he raised a staggering $32 million to her $13.5 million, officials said.”

 

Now, candidates have from time to time drawn significant funds from their personal accounts to cover campaign expenses.  But Hillary Clinton is no ordinary candidate and this is no ordinary campaign.  Her husband is a former president who uses his history in the White House to leverage business deals in an unprecedented fashion.  Since he left office in 2001, the former president has traveled the world accumulating tens of millions of dollars in speaking fees from foreign interests (such as Dubai and Chinese communist interests).  He also seems to have struck business deals with companies that don’t require him to work or to assume any financial risk. 

 

For example, The Wall Street Journal reported just a couple of weeks ago that Bill Clinton is due to receive a $20 million buyout from billionaire businessman Ron Burkle as he severs a relationship with Burkle’s Yucaipa Companies.  By Burkle’s own estimate, Clinton averaged about 500 hours per year, or 10 hours per week, on the Yucaipa business without making any financial investment.  To say that’s a sweetheart deal is a gross understatement.

 

Question:  What does Burkle expect in return for his generosity?  And what about Bill Clinton’s other financial angels, many of whom reside overseas?

 

As we and other critics have noted, given that Hillary shares a bank account with her husband, payments to Bill Clinton are, in effect, payments to her.  It was bad enough that she was a senator on the indirect take, but this is especially troubling now that Hillary has decided to use these assets to get elected president.  Is there any real doubt that Bill’s business and speaking fee payments were de facto campaign contributions?  Back in the 90’s, the Chinese communists gave the money to the campaigns and DNC to help the Clinton gang win and retain office.  Now these and other similarly dubious foreign interests just give it to the Clintons directly.  And now that money is being laundered, clean as a whistle, into Hillary’s campaign coffers. 

 

We were second to none in going after Cheney on Halliburton and former President Bush for his Carlyle/Saudi ties.  The Clintons also need to be held to account.   

 

Corruption Matters

 

Speaking of unasked questions…Have you noticed that there has been a startling lack of attention paid to the issue of corruption in these presidential debates?  We’ve had over two dozen of them. Other than one question from Tim Russert in an early Democratic debate related to Hillary’s White House papers the issue of government ethics has been abandoned.  This is despite the fact that corruption was the number one issue on the minds of voters during the last election cycle, ahead of Iraq and ahead of the economy.  It was the main reason why the Republicans lost control of both houses of Congress.

 

So why the deafening silence on what is clearly a hot-button issue for voters?  Certainly, it’s not for lack of material.  Bill and Hillary Clinton’s moral and ethical bankruptcy has been a focus of Judicial Watch’s work for the last 13 years.  (See more here.) 

 

Then there’s Barack Obama and his Rezko problem.  First, there was that “boneheaded mistake” Obama made by getting involved in a property deal with Rezko, who as under investigation at the time for taking kickbacks from companies that sought to do business with the state of Illinois.  Then there were the news reports of the $150,000 in Rezko-tainted donations that Obama was forced to donate to charity.

 

And now this, according to The London Times:  “An undeclared $3.5 million…payment from a corrupt Iraqi-British businessman has landed Barack Obama’s former fundraiser behind bars. 

 

"The payment, disclosed in court papers, is the first time that Mr Obama’s long-serving bagman Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko, a Syrian immigrant to the United States, has been linked to Nadhmi Auchi, the Iraqi-born billionaire who is one of Britain’s richest men. The relationship is a potential embarrassment for Mr. Obama, who has made his opposition to the Iraq war a central plank of his campaign. 

 

"Court papers describe Mr Rezko as a close friend of Mr. Auchi.  The two are involved in a large Chicago land development together…”

 

Incidentally, Obama is referenced indirectly in those court documents.  After which, Obama donated some Rezko-related dollars to charity.  The more we learn, the worse it looks for Senator Obama and his Rezko connection.

 

Of course, Republicans have problems of their own.  I’ve written before about the 14 ethics complaints filed against Mike Huckabee, who actually sued to shut the ethics process down.

 

While clearly some of John McCain’s appeal relates to his anti-corruption message, or “straight talk,” as he calls it, check out this gem from The Washington Post last week:  “A top political adviser in Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign helped arrange an introduction in 2006 between McCain and a Russian billionaire whose suspected links to anti-democratic and organized-crime figures are so controversial that the U.S. government revoked his visa.”

 

Judicial Watch is initiating investigations into all of this – but Americans need to hold these politicians’ feet to the fire.  Otherwise, things may never change. 

 

Missouri Upholds Anti-illegal Immigration Law

 

Okay, let’s end on a positive note. 

 

The Dallas Morning News reported this week:  “An ordinance in a suburban St. Louis town that penalizes businesses that hire illegal immigrants has been upheld by a federal judge. 

 

“U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber ruled late Thursday that the ordinance adopted by the city of Valley Park, Mo., is not pre-empted by federal law, does not discriminate against Hispanics and does not violate due-process rights or Missouri law. 

 

“The ordinance ‘is not pre-empted by federal law; to the contrary, federal law specifically permits such licensing laws as the one at issue,’ Judge Webber wrote.”

 

(Amen to that.)  We’ve been supportive in court of a similar law put in place by Hazleton, Pennsylvania.  (That legal fight is now before a federal appeals court.) 

 

As if that wasn’t enough good news from Missouri, there was also this from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  “Although Missouri is not a national hotbed for illegal immigration, the state is taking the lead in training local law officers on how to help federal immigration authorities. 

 

“The training includes tips for working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and information about specific programs, such as allowing local police to be deputized to enforce federal immigration law or helping identify illegal immigrants in county jails and state prisons.”

 

As the federal government continues to fail miserably to secure the border, more and more local police departments are taking advantage of this training, and this never would have happened were it not for the work of Judicial Watch.

 

In July, 2006, Judicial Watch uncovered documents from the Department of Homeland Security related to 287(g) training, showing that local governments have the authority to help enforce immigration law.  By publicizing these documents, Judicial Watch pressured local officials, who have tried to wash their hands of illegal immigration, claiming it is purely a federal problem.  The efforts to enforce our nation’s immigration laws continue to gain steam at the local level.  You can be sure that we’ll continue to play an active role pushing this movement along.

 

Until next week…

 

[reformjoy]

Judicial Watch! My Heros!!!

[vbmoneyspender]

Refco 2.0

[reformjoy]

I don’t think America realizes what
we’re really getting with these two!

ChinaGate was only a Warning!

[reformjoy]

Sorry don’t understand the computer lingo! (If that’s what your post was refering to!)

BUT, I do know that the reason I posted this is because Tom Fitton is so clear spoken and really hits the issues of Clinton Corruption and GREED clearly!

Wouldn’t it be great if Reporters could do their JOB and
investigate the Clinton’s and the source of all their millions!

Doesn’t the MEDIA care to dig up DIRT anymore??

Journalism used to be FUN! Go Get Em, People!!!

[Otho]

Hil’s been trading cattle futures again.

[vbmoneyspender]

see post 5

[bill1952]

The modern media is mostly not journalism at all.
It is simply the fifth column of the “agenda for change,” and that is what it is.

[Paleo Conservative]

Judicial Watch Soros losers! There nothing to see there. Move along.

[Yosemitest]

FUBAR

[Eric Blair 2084]

I still remember when Hillary was talking about Bill’s medical bills a couple of years ago. The quote was:

“Thank God we have medical insurance.”

I was thinking...golly gee willikers, you got 70 Million for your book deal, you don’t need medical insurance...you can buy a Hospital and hire the Doctors and Nurses.

That’s not a bad thing at all. The market for your Socialist manifesto made a lot of money in the capitalist USA. Good for you.

Is this a great country or what???!!!

[Lancey Howard]

Hillary Lends Her Campaign $5 Million – Where Did the Money Come From?

Uh, the Cayman Islands?

[fhayek]

Bill and H.ill have health insurance. Hill’s campaign workers, well not so much.

[reformjoy]

Really! If you have the cash, just pay for everything yourself! You’re so right.

See! Hillary is buying the Presidency!!

[pankot]

Wait till you see how much money she makes the first year as President! (Does anybody wonder how a couple who started out as hicks from Arkansas got to be multi-millionares fair and square). [Apologies to you decent folks in Arkansas]

[txroadkill]

Hillary Lends Her Campaign $5 Million – Where Did the Money Come From?

Uh, the Cayman Islands?
 

From the sale of White House furniture missing since 2000.

[HarryCaul]

Probably had a subscription to the Wall Street Journal

[reformjoy]

Bill and H.ill have health insurance. Hill’s campaign workers, well not so much.

All for the Cause!!

The Masses must sacrifice for the Queen to RULE!

But once THE TERROR YEARS begin, we must all get our vaccinations and injections free, paid for from our own taxes!

We will be Dopey and Controlled!

From 2009 to 2016 is going to be a BLAST, BABY!

[FormerACLUmember]

Where the hell does ANY of the Clintons’ money come from? Two penniless grifters from Arkansas who have never held a private sector real job, now worth $100 million. An endless parade of criminal associates, a surprising number of whom die prematurely when caught.

Interest from the media? (crickets chirping....)

[SweetCaroline]

After five days of renting to a group of Hillary Clinton campaign workers, all one Rochester, N.H., landlord got was an unpaid bill for $500 and a five-Advil headache.

Terry Bennett, a physician by trade, owns the building in question, which was rented to the campaign workers while they were counting down to the Jan. 8 New Hampshire primary, which Clinton won.

Bennett tells the Portsmouth (N.H.) Herald that he thought the small-potatoes rent charge would be taken care of the day they left. Not to mention, they might have cleaned up a little better.

“It’s a very nice little building, with an 1,800-foot warehouse and the rest can be offices,” Bennett told the Herald. “There’s a full kitchen and bath. They used it as a campaign center and dormitory. I expected them to hand the Realtor a check as they left. They did not.”

Not only that, but: “They left enough trash for a small army. … We filled two of those big black trash bags with what they left. There might still be a 4×8 Hillary sign there we pulled off the fence.”

The Herald reports that neither the staffer who originally rented the space nor the Clinton campaign returned phone calls seeking comment. It also reports that the realtor working for Bennett bill hasn’t been contacted about any of his 20 or so e-mails in the month since the building was vacated.

Click here to read the full report in the Portsmouth Herald.
http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/02/08/nh-landlord-says-clinton-campaign-stiffed-him-500-trashed-building/

[reformjoy]

So, the Clinton’s are Scammers!

Everyone is left footing the bill.

I’m so shocked!!

[Eric Blair 2084]

Bill and H.ill have health insurance. Hill’s campaign workers, well not so much.

All pigs are equal. Some pigs are more equal than others.

[Eric Blair 2084]

Sweet Caroline...uh, oh, oh....good times never seemed so good...so good....so good...so good.

[doug from upland]

They shouldn’t be your heroes.

Hey, Tom, you raised millions and millions for Peter Paul’s case but did not spend it on his case. Where is all the money?

[Eric Blair 2084]

But what about the poor, the unfortunate, the oppressed? They need to stay that way, otherwise who would vote for Democrats?

If these folks ever figured out that they don’t need Gumbint, how would Hillary or any other Marxist stay in power?

[Ditto]

Where the hell does ANY of the Clintons’ money come from? Two penniless grifters from Arkansas who have never held a private sector real job, now worth $100 million.

Well, maybe they hit the Power Ball. Ya, that's it, that's the ticket. It was the big one on Saturday night!

[ashtanga]

I hope that they have insurance on the Clinton Double Wide liberry. It looks like it is going to fall in the ditch!

[ashtanga]

The Clintons had to break a few, er, eggs to get that Village omelet on the plate. The Marxist press obliged them with softball questions and gushy articles. The birkenstockers had a field day, as the time was ripe for the productive to be broken and their goods redistributed to the addle patted, who now form a permanent voting block. Those who have kept their sanity through it all face quite a battle.

[dr_lew]

Where Did the Money Come From?

Let's just say it's "dirty money" ... nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more, say no more.

[Waco]

The vast majority of Americans knows EXACTLY these bonnie & clyde pair are pure evil, yet will regard them like our parents lionized dillinger, jesse james, pretty boy floyd, al capone etc. Can’t say we don’t deserve what we get, can we?

[george76]

Bill Clinton is due to receive a $20 million buyout from billionaire businessman Ron Burkle

plus the arab oil money...

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Perhaps this Burkle or foreign oil money is the source of that $5 million ?

The law is...

[rabscuttle385]

[Ramzi Al Kaboom]

I wonder whatever happened to the old maxim about a reporters job being “ To comfort the afflicted...and afflict the comfortable”

[americanophile]

Did Sandy Berger visit the U.S. Treasury too?

[NorseWood]

I heard somewhere that Hillary, when she was in Las Vegas, spent $4,000 per night to stay in the Presidential Suite.

[reformjoy]

I heard somewhere that Hillary, when she was in Las Vegas, spent $4,000 per night to stay in the Presidential Suite.

Ego problem, for sure!

Hillary is a Nut.
Scary, Crazy and Obsessed!

Just because it smiles, cries and has blond hair
is no reason to elect it President, for goodness sakes!

[uvular]

Was it ever determined when/where that pic of Hillary!,Bill and Resko was taken? Wherever or whenever it was, it darn sure took some money from someone for Resko to get that close to the Clintons...

[Bernard]

Where Did the Money Come From

Jeb Clampett turned Hillary on to Geico. Oh wait, the Clintons don't buy their own cars, do they?

[Colorado Doug]

I don’t think it’s fair to question her personal funds just because she banks with Beijing National Bank and has never had to make a deposit, yet has unlimited funds there. /s

[wildbill]

Hillary is the choice of 5,000,000 Chinese waiters.

Not to mention the Politburo of the People’s Republic

[Dilbert56]

They been pimpin' Chelsea

[justanotherdumbblond]

I wonder how much the Grifters got from the oil for food scam?

[reformjoy]

“Chelsea Victoria” Clinton

*** Mommy’s Dream Girl!

“Shall-see Victory”

(Hillary a Tyrant with a Vision...that is SO Scary!)