Bill and Hillary’s sleazy road to riches (exploiting the presidency was key)

NYPOST.COM ^ | 10/7/16 | NY Post Editorial Board

[Liz]

Everything about the Clinton’s sleazy drive to enrich themselves is true......in a 2011 memo, ex-presidential aide Doug Band openly boasted about raising millions for the foundation from his business clients—and even more for Bill Clinton personally. Band’s 13-page memo actually described the arrangement he’d set up as “Bill Clinton Inc.” — “dedicating myself” to helping the Clintons use their government service to feather their own nest.

And what a gravy train: Band’s clients at his Teneo consulting firm were pressed to give millions to the foundation — and millions more to Bill. Teneo had raised $8M for the foundation and $3M in paid speeches for Bill. Band boasted, it had also set up “more than $50M min for-profit” Clinton business deals, with contracts worth $66M more. And that doesn’t even include loads of “in-kind” freebies, like vacations and private jets.

The foundation claims there was no unsavory link between its donors and Hillary’s job as secretary of state. Yet other e-mail dumps and investigations show that giving to Clinton's do-good causes could win you face time,State Dept jobs — and preferential treatment in Haiti-relief work. Plus suspicious favors outlined in “Clinton Cash” and elsewhere.

An internal investigator concluded that corporations were “paying Teneo for connections with Clinton” — not to mention with Secretary Hillary and potential future president. And when Hillary aide Huma Abedin needed help making ends meet, Hillary got her three jobs---at Teneo, as a salaried foundation worker — and US govt paychecks at State. The circle of enrichment was a one-hand-washes-the-other arrangement. All nice and cozy — and mutually lucrative. What more proof do we need that as far as Bill and Hillary Clinton are concerned, the rules don’t apply to them?

[Cheerio]

[Wuli]

I don’t know why so many in the press did not pick up on my WSJ reader comments going back as far as Hillary’s first run for president, all through her term at the State Department and her second run at the presidency. I most often did not refer to her as “Hillary”, but instead usually used “Billary, Inc.”

[szweig]

It should be {Clintons’}. Plural possessive (I theeenk...)

[itsahoot]

And to think how we ridiculed Imelda Marcos for a few shoes.

[The Great RJ]

The Clinton’s grafting goes way back to their Arkansas days. Neither Bill or Hillary had a pot to piss in after college, but Bill used his charm and a lot of sleazy connections to make money leveraging the dollars as he gained various political offices. Hillary had neither Bills charm or connections, but through her days at the Rose law firm made some sleazy deals like the phony cattle futures and the Whitewater land fraud to ham handedly line her pockets. The White House was their cash machine and whether through selling nights in the Lincoln bedroom or peddling favors for cash from the Chinese they hit the big time. The Clinton Foundation was one huge money laundering scheme where they raked in millions by peddling their influence. Hillary’s presidency was to be the capstone of their criminal enterprise, but with her defeat the money has dried up. Now a few are daring to speak out. If the Clinton Foundation fraud is finally revealed it will be the biggest political scandal in history.