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Clinton's State Department spent $5.4 million on 'crystal stemware'
The Washington Examiner ^ | 10-27-16 | Sarah Westwood

Posted on 10/28/2016 8:31:30 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

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To: Kickass Conservative

The political class and their degenerate toadies are criminals and traitors. They have no shame. They laugh at everyone else.


41 posted on 10/28/2016 9:07:44 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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TAXPAYERS DEMAND CONGRESS TAKE ACTION---open the State Department books and verify the expenditures made during the Hillary era....including the 6 billion dollars missing from the contractor fund.

The Bank Secrecy Act should be mobilized----to follow the State Dept paper trail, including official documents, and determine how monies changed hands; to determine the scope and dimension of collusion in sub rosa deals and who might be personally profiting.

<><> L/E needs to examine bank accounts of the State Dept, Hillary Clinton and her cronies

<><> Joint bank accounts might be used to facilitate the transfer govt funds from one account to another, and/or wire-transferred offshore;

<><> To cover their tracks, fake invoices might be created to show that govt money deposited into accounts was being used for legitimate purposes.

<><> Financial schemes scheme might be advanced by issuing phony statements of payments from financial sources that actually covered the transfer of funds for insiders' personal use and/or for redistribution schemes.

<><> Falsified official reports might indicate a cover-up of larger crimes.

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NOTE WELL Under the Bank Secrecy Act, banks are required to establish, implement and maintain programs designed to detect and report suspicious activity indicative of money laundering and other financial crimes. “The Bank Secrecy Act was enacted to protect the public from harm by identifying and detecting money laundering from criminal enterprises, terrorism, tax evasion or other unlawful activities,” the special agent in charge for Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, explained.

Shady banking transactions could be prosecuted under the (1) Bank Secrecy ACT, (2) RICO, and, (3) the Hobbs Act.

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<><> L/E should get ahold of: (1) copies of checks, (2) wire transfers, (3) account statements, (4) invoices, (5) bills, (6) delivery tickets, (7) correspondence including snail mail, e-mail, mobile devices, cell phones, (8) contracts, (9) loan agreements, (10) other account books or official records.

L/E should also explore (a) monies paid to brokers, sub- brokers, (b) family members, (c) mortgage brokers, (d) financial managers, and, (e) real estate agents, brokers, and developers.

<><> L/E should scrutinize bank accounts for suspicious activites: (A) large deposits, (B) funds transferred from one account into another, (C) frequent requests for withdrawals.

<><> Bank records might also show diversions to secret LLC accounts, to money launder and to operate personal ventures;

Tax fraud may also be a factor, facilitated by withdrawals, gift cards purchases, credit card purchases and intra-bank transfers from legal bank accounts into personal accounts, or redistribution schemes.

<><> A huge tipoff is whether bank withdrawals support luxurious lifestyle including payments for real estate, investment and stock holdings, jewelry, luxury vehicles, resort travel....... and gifts from luxury outlets for wives and mistresses.

FBI TIPS PAGE--YOU MAY REMAIN ANONYMOUS ---https://tips.fbi.gov

SUBJECT: Collusion, conspiracy, bribery
IN RE: financial irregularities
REFERENCE: fraud, falsified documents, wire transfers, accounting fraud, etc.

NARRATIVE Taxpayers demand to know the scope and dimension of multiple conspiracies to collude in sub rosa deals to personally profit and/or to facilitate redistribution schemes.

OF INTEREST TO LAW ENFORCEMENT The FBI should interrogate individuals for evidence of multiple schemes to falsify official documents to further fraudulent schemes. The FBI should investigate any and all official documents submitted to the courts and/or govt agencies.

Crimes might include---conspiracy, collusion, falsifying official documents (a felony), money laundering, tax evasion, extortion, theft, misuse of public facilities.

Examine tax returns with a fine-tooth comb.....especially entries for "interest income."

42 posted on 10/28/2016 9:08:12 AM PDT by Liz (Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Hillary’s got to have it. She only throws the best!


43 posted on 10/28/2016 9:08:24 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

This is from the NY Post, regarding the crystal:

“Ironically, under the no-bid contract, some of the crystal is to be custom-crafted to include the seal of the United States, although Swedes will do all of the manufacturing.

Contracting rules require any American firms that subcontract work to use a domestic firm or get a waiver. The firm that got the contract, Systems Design Inc., is a small interior-design firm in Georgetown. The company, which is eligible for minority small-business contracts, does not appear to have done any similar work.

After getting the contract in September, the firm subcontracted to Swedish glassmaker Orrefors/Kosta Boda USA. Department spokesman Darby Holladay said Systems Design couldn’t find a domestic producer who could meet the 100 percent lead-free requirement, although a Steuben spokesman said it does manufacture lead-free crystal.”

Apparently they bypassed American firms who could have done the work, and had the Swedes do it instead. They didn’t contract directly with the Swedes though, they ran it through a minority-owned business as a middleman first.


44 posted on 10/28/2016 9:11:51 AM PDT by Gunpowder green
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Was this included in the $6.000,000,000 in Taxpayer Money that Hillary “misplaced” while running State?


45 posted on 10/28/2016 9:12:18 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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MIND-BOGGLING---HILLARY'S "SMART POWER" IN ACTION

While wasteful spending goes on at most federal gencies, Clinton presided over particularly expensive unsuccessful reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Her agency spent more than $600 million on failed projects in those two countries alone, according to the RNC memo.

The projects included a $3.6 million fleet of "unused broadcast TV trucks" in Afghanistan and $167.5 million on "preventable cost overruns while expanding embassy Kabul."

46 posted on 10/28/2016 9:12:58 AM PDT by Liz (Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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MIND-BOGGLING---HILLARY'S "SMART POWER" IN ACTION

While wasteful spending goes on at most federal gencies, Clinton presided over particularly expensive unsuccessful reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Her agency spent more than $600 million on failed projects in those two countries alone, according to the RNC memo.

The projects included a $3.6 million fleet of "unused broadcast TV trucks" in Afghanistan and $167.5 million on "preventable cost overruns while expanding embassy Kabul."

47 posted on 10/28/2016 9:12:59 AM PDT by Liz (Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I remember back when Reagan was president the left wing press dumped all over Nancy for getting new China for the WH even tough it was paid for by a private donor


48 posted on 10/28/2016 9:16:07 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: Gunpowder green
5.4 million tax dollars for crystal stemware? At a department store, $54 a glass is top of the line; did they buy 100,000 glasses? I’m guessing they paid many times that amount, and a connected friend pocketed the difference.

Prolly all of the stemware is at Chappaqua or in the Clintons' DC mansion. Maybe some of it is at the Clinton Foundation....and Chelsea's 10 million condo.

49 posted on 10/28/2016 9:17:00 AM PDT by Liz (Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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Why do our Embassies have Marble floors? They could go to Lumber Liquidators and get some nice Marble looking tile on closeout.

I would rather impress our Friends and Enemies with the strongest Military might the world has ever seen.


50 posted on 10/28/2016 9:18:03 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Gunpowder green

Then they could find a supplier, Steuben. Why wasn’t Steuben allowed to bid?


51 posted on 10/28/2016 9:18:51 AM PDT by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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And since a lot of people still prefer the leaded stemware for table service usage, how do we know the lead free wasn’t just an excuse?


52 posted on 10/28/2016 9:21:26 AM PDT by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

She spent a fortune on stuff she planned to steal. They’s trash. Pure trash.


53 posted on 10/28/2016 9:22:55 AM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

How much of the stemware ended up at Hillary’s Washington home?


54 posted on 10/28/2016 9:24:35 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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But, we were told that Republicans didn’t provide enough money to protect the Libyan embassy. Her highness really, really needed some nice glasses.

Two questions, well three come to mind.

Who did the no bid contract go to? How much did they “donate” to the foundation, DNC, HRC campaign, and did Bill give the companies employees a little pep talk for $500,000.00 or so?

Has the crystal been moved to Chappaqua?


55 posted on 10/28/2016 9:27:46 AM PDT by phoneman08
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If Orrefors does lead free, I can’t find any info on it. My bet is that purchase was for lead crystal, and the explanation was a bald-faced lie.

Wonder how folks in NYS would feel about Hillary if she screwed Steuben out of a chance at that contract?


56 posted on 10/28/2016 9:28:42 AM PDT by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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How about the money spent on Obama’s BOOKS?


57 posted on 10/28/2016 9:29:35 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic ( “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”)
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"5.4 million for stemware?"

Maybe she used the State Department coffers to purchase her personal gifts to friends, and family. Better check Chelsea's Huma's, and the Rodham Brothers' pads. Maybe Roger Clinton's drinking his booze from some of them.

58 posted on 10/28/2016 9:30:24 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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And Clinton’s Lie-brary (glorified mobile home) in Arkansas of which the private quarters are closed to the public and used for ???


59 posted on 10/28/2016 9:34:53 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic ( “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Couldn't she [and her staff] just eat a lot of jelly, like we peons did?


60 posted on 10/28/2016 9:34:59 AM PDT by Daffynition (*Donald Trump represents the WILL of the PEOPLE.*~ Don King 09.24.16)
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