The Clintons, a luxury jet and their $100 million donor from Canada (donor omits salient details)

washingtonpost.com ^ | 5/3/15 | Tom Hamburger, Rosalind Helderman w/ Alice Crites

[Liz]

In a rare interview, wealthy Canadian magnate, Frank Giustra says his friendship with Bill Clinton has grown out of their shared interest in philanthropy — not business. “I admire what he does. But I’ve never asked him for a damn thing.” But Giustra’s donations, and others from his friends in the international mining business, are now a factor in Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Last week, the Clinton Foundation acknowledged that an affiliated Canadian charity founded in 2007 by Giustra kept its donors secret, despite a 2008 ethics agreement with the Obama administration promising to reveal its donors.

Giustra has committed more than $100 million to the Clinton Foundation and says the arrangement conformed with Canadian law. But it opened a way for anonymous donors, including foreign executives with business pending before the Hillary Clinton-led State Dept, to direct money to the Clinton Foundation.

[LINK 1,100 donors to a Canadian charity tied to Clinton Foundation remain secret]

For Giustra, the partnership with Bill Clinton provided an introduction to the world of international philanthropy — a feel-good, reputation-enhancing effort that he said he finds more personally satisfying than amassing wealth. At the same time, Giustra continued to expand his business empire, closing some of the biggest deals of his career in the same countries where he traveled with Clinton.

In one case, he finalized a massive transaction to buy uranium mines in Kazakhstan days after dining with that nation’s president, along with Clinton and other guests. In another, a Colombian oil operation Giustra helped form received valuable drilling rights in deals involving a state-owned oil company after he met the Colombian president through the Clinton Foundation. Giustra said government approval was not required in either case.

[LINK Foreign governments gave millions to foundation while Clinton was at State Dept.]

[liberalh8ter]

Link goes to “page not found”

[Liz]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-clintons-a-luxury-jet-and-their-100-million-donor/2015/05/03/688051d0-ecef-11e4-8abc-d6aa3bad79dd_story.html

[lowbridge]

“ his friendship with Bill Clinton has grown out of their shared interest in philanthropy — not business. “I admire what he does.”

Cheat on his marriage? Commit perjury? Take 85 percent of your money to put in his pocket?

“But I’ve never asked him for a damn thing”

So youre in the habit of giving away free money, 100 million dollars, to a fellow rich guy for no reason at all?

[upchuck]

Sooner (hopefully) or later it will come out: the Clinton Foundation is nothing more than a fancy money laundering operation for the Clintons.

They may have finally stepped in it too deep. Plenty of negative press about this. The DOJ will do nothing of substance of course. Maybe this will help Killary to not get elected.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

This is a Washington Post story. Vast Right Wing Conspiracy???

[Liz]

Oops, do-gooder Giustra "forgot" to mention that he finalized a massively profitable transaction to buy uranium mines in Kazakhstan days AFTER he and Clinton dined with that nation’s president.

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"Philanthropist" Giustra also forgot to mention......

<><> (1) the head of the Kazakhstan agency that oversees the country’s mining, said that Secy of State Hillary Clinton pressured Kazakh officials to sell uranium assets to Giustra’s firm, and,

<><> (2) that Bill Clinton adviser Tim Phillips said Hillary would not meet with him until Kazakh officials agreed to Giustra’s nuclear deal.

Bill Clinton calculatedly went to Kazahstan during election time. He praised the candidate, a dictator who won w/ 90% of the vote---an obviously rigged election.

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(Snicker) So I guess Hillary never informed Obama that she was jerking around foreign policy WRT the sale of US uranium mines to a country dealing with Iran.

Oh well, everybody knew Obama wouldn't complain.....as long as he got his cut.

[bray]

If you believe that you must also believe Benghazi was caused by a video.

Pray America is waking

[liberalh8ter]

Thanks, Liz. What a series of coincidences, huh? LOL.

[Liz]

Guistra says his friendship with Bill Clinton has grown out of their shared interest in philanthropy — not business. Giustra said it was “beyond ludicrous” to suggest that Clinton engaged on his lucrative business deals, because the former president has very little interest in business. “You have to understand something about Bill Clinton. He doesn’t care about that stuff,” Giustra said. “His eyes would glaze over.”

Giustra says, “I admire what he does.”

Cheats on his marriage? Commits perjury? Pockets 85 percent of your donations?

And dont forget likable Clinton's other endearing "credentials": impeached president, disbarred lawyer, lied to Congress.

[Liz]

THE NY POST SUMS UP THE LUCRATIVE CLINTON MO--
all of it done w/ phony liberal "tolerance and compassion:"

Schweizer’s book ‘Clinton Cash’ is a blistering indictment. The NY POST reports details of the sordid Clinton operation vary, but the M.O. is fairly consistent:

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One: Dodgy rich businessman, often a foreigner with a mega-deal in some corrupt country, possibly run by a dictator, writes a check that buys him the status of friend of Bill Clinton (FOB). The check is payable to the Clinton Foundation, or to Bill himself, as an honorarium for a meaningless idealistic speech that is essentially Bill giving a homily at a whorehouse.

Two: When the cameras are turned off, Bill receives ultra-luxurious travel on someone else’s dime and attends a lavish party in his honor held by some dictator or shady businessman connected to the new FOB. Talks go on behind closed doors.

Three: Millions of dollars of donations start flowing into the Clinton Foundation from FOB's and their associates.

Fourth: Potential roadblocks to the mega-deal in the Senate or the State Dept melt away. The deal goes through. The new Clinton friend gets very, very rich.

Fifth: Hillary forgets to disclose these donations.

Six: The press doesn’t notice what just happened.

SOURCE: http://nypost.com/2015/05/03/clinton-cash-is-a-blistering-indictment-of-hill-and-bills-behavior/

[LostPassword]

“But I’ve never asked him for a damn thing”

He learned from the Clintons so this is probably a true statement. If he asked personally, there could be evidence of wrongdoing. But he could make this statement if his lackey had a discussion with Bill's lackey, then he did one thing and Hillary did another based on an agreement between the lackeys.

[Liz]

The Clintons' cadre of puckered-up ***-kissers (lying-in-wait for federal jobs)---are spinning the explosive "Clinton Cash" revelations like crazy----blathering about "not a shred of evidence" of criminal wrongdoing, or as ABC's George Stephanopoulos helpfully repeated over the weekend, "There's no smoking gun."

The party-line is that "it’s extremely difficult to identify a direct quid pro quo"....b/c while Hillary was Secy of State, foreign funny money was moving around from hand to hand with big money deals approved which she could say were going to be approved anyway.

And golly, gee.....at the same time, all that foreign money was flowing into the charitable Clinton Foundation..... not into Hillary’s bank account (/snicker).

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THE CLINTON MO---rather than taking cash from blatantly illegal activities (THAT WE KNOW OF TO DATE) and then cleaning it through legitimate businesses, the cunning Clinton Foundation:

<><> (1) mops up cash from wealthy foreigners,

<><> (2) bundles it within a larger organization to hide the money’s original source, and,

<><> (3) funnels the cash from that legitimate charity into the Clinton Foundation coffers.

Then from the foundation coffers, better believe the money-laundering is an intense 24/7 operation.

(more below)

[Liz]

cont

LOOKING THROUGH THE WRONG END OF THE TELESCOPE The Buckraking Clinton Foundation sucking up foreign donations is morally reprehensible----but the real crimes are what exactly they are doing with the corporate/foreign monies once its in their Foundation's tax-exempt coffers.

So how'd they do that? Remember, Wall Street makes money disappear faster than a cream puff at a Weight Watchers weigh-in.

EXHIBIT ONE--- Dec 05, 2011---Fox News Report: Bill Clinton Reaped Big Bucks from Corzine Firm Before Collapse--- MF Global Employee Links Clinton to the Bankrupt Firm

A former MF Global employee accused former president Bill Clinton of collecting $50,000 per month through his Teneo advisory firm in the months before the brokerage careened towards its Halloween filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, reports Human Events.

Teneo was hired by MF Global’s former CEO Jon S. Corzine to improve his image and to enhance his connections with Clinton’s political family, said the employee, who asked that his name be withheld because he feared retribution, according to Hum/Events. Teneo is a dual-track company with one side devoted to merchant and investment banking and the other side set up to provide image and strategy consulting services. Clinton is the chairman of the company’s advisory board, reports Hum/Events.

SOURCE http://nation.foxnews.com/mf-global/2011/12/05/report-bill-clinton-reaped-big-bucks-corzine-firm- collapse#ixzz1fhH3pHHH

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EXHIBIT TWO--Then-Secy of State Hillary gave her close aide, Huma Abedin, “State Dept special status".....Abedin was working for Hillary at State....... AND simultaneously working for Bill Clinton, as a private contractor for his company, Teneo Holdings.

Abedin, reportedly had private email addresses on the Clinton email server system (underlining Democrats' greatest fear: the intersection of undisclosed foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton’s secret email address. Huma Abedin's sweetheart deal: (1) an outside private six-figure consultant at the State Department, and, (2) “special government employee” status, and worked a sideline---as a private contractor.

One of Huma's clients was Bill Clinton's Company----Teneo Holdings----self-described as a dual-track political/banking consulting firm that calls itself the “next chapter in strategic advisory.”

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EXHIBIT THREE---An earlier NYT's expose tarred Bill Clinton w/ Teneo's sub rosa dealings. Teneo is run by Clinton aide---Doug Band. Prosecutors found Band and Clinton listed in pedophile's Jeffry Epsteiin's records as having a shocking 21 email addresses and tele nos. Can you say money laundering? L/E recognizes multiple phone nos and email as the classic MO for money- laundering and tax evasion.

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EXHIBIT FOUR---Chelsea's husband runs a hedge fund that gained access to investors who had ties to the Clintons---even as reports surfaced that Mezvinsky's hedge fund had "underwhelming" returns.

The WSJ reports extensively on the fund's underperformance since its inception and Mezvinsky's mediocre investing and strategizing. Back in 2011, Mezvinsky, now 37, and two former Goldman Sachs colleagues — Bennett Grau and Mark Mallon — began raising money for Mezvinsky's Eaglevale Partners LP hedge fund. Some of Eaglevale's investors included Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. Blankfein, a slavish Democrat supporter, said he had "always been a fan of Hillary Clinton."

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EXHIBIT FIVE-- The eternal Clinton/Goldman Sachs connection. Then-Pres Clinton's WH aide Rahm Emanuel also worked as a Goldman Sachs lobbyist.....both at the same time

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Here's Hillary cozying up to Goldman Sachs.

Then-US Sens Clinton and Corzine. Corzine was fresh out of Goldman Sachs
executive suite, buying his NJ Senate seat office for $65 million; then buying
the NJ governorship. Out of office, he ran a hedge fund where $1.5 B went missing.

[Travis McGee]