Posted on 04/06/2008 10:08:26 AM PDT by The_Republican
TOP 14,500 RICHEST FAMILY
The Clintons left the White House burdened by debt but have earned $109m (£55m) in the past eight years, putting them among the 14,500 richest families in the country and presenting a stark contrast to the impoverished families championed by her campaign.
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The former president reeled in at least $12.6m - and a possible further $2.7m last year - from a business partnership with his friend Ron Burkle, the supermarket magnate and financier. Bill Clinton has his own room in Burkle’s mansion in Los Angeles and travels so frequently on Burkle’s private jet that he jokingly calls it Air Force Two.
CAYMAN ISLANDS - TAX SHELTER
The bulk of the cash went to the Clinton Family Foundation and served as a tax write-off. The foundation has distributed only half its money - and most of that was after Hillary Clinton began running for president last year.
In 2006 the couple acquired an interest through a blind trust in a private investment fund based in the Cayman Islands, which is connected to Haim Saban. He is a billionaire Hollywood mogul and a big fundraiser for Hillary Clinton.
MIDDLE EASTERN DONORS
The Obama campaign will now step up the pressure on Clinton to release the names of donors to her husband’s presidential library, who include a number of Middle Eastern potentates. More than 10% of its $165m cost came from foreign sources, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
I wonder where all the cash-for-pardon money went. There are rumors that the Clintons got $200M for the Marc Rich pardon.
Will the MSM folks that criticized Reagan for collecting speaking fees after he left office have a bad word to say about the Clintons?
Is this a rhetorical question or what?
So crime does pay!
Those wnt into a special Swiss bank acount ergo all those trips to the EU.
Wonder how rich they are, really? This doesn’t include the bribery.
I'm sure the Clintons have to pay a lot of people off on a regular basis.
You would think this would be the main story on every news outlet in the country.
The Clintons left the White House burdened by debt but have earned $109m (£55m) in the past eight years, putting them among the 14,500 richest families in the country and presenting a stark contrast to the impoverished families championed by her campaign.
I wonder where the Clintons would rank among the most hated wealthy families in America... I'd love to see that poll done say in 8 months, after the election. I'll bet they'll be setting some Guiness Book Records.
The way Klintons employed “Scorc-Earth” tactics and with the sheer viciousness they did it with, I think sub-conciously people are afraid of them.
On FNC on Friday evening they had figures showing that since leaving the White House the Clintons have been making an average of over $41,000 a day, whereas the average American earns not much more than that in a year.
Bill Sammon on FNC on Friday evening pointed out how this fit the pattern of how the Clintons used to manage news stories when they were in the White House—a document drop on a Friday afternoon, ensuring that it will get the least possible attention because the reporters are getting ready for the weekend. Plus this Friday attention was on other stories, like the 40th anniversary of King’s death.
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