Posted on 11/01/2016 5:06:42 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Just call it the Sheik shake down...
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In one of the more prominent early Podesta email revelations, we learned that Sheik Mohammed Hussein Ali Al-'Amoudi, a Saudi Arabian and Ethiopian billionaire businessman, whose net worth was estimated by Forbes at $8.3 billion as of 2016, was one of the very generous donors to the Clinton Foundation... up to a point.
As a November 2011 email from Ira Magaziner, Vice Chairman and CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, sent to John Podesta and Amitabh Desai, Director of Foreign Policy at the Clinton Foundation, revealed, the "CHAI [Clinton Health Access Initiative] would like to request that President Clinton call Sheik Mohammed to thank him for offering his plane to the conference in Ethiopia and expressing regrets that President Clinton's schedule does not permit him to attend the conference."
To this, the response by Desai was a simple one: "Unless Sheikh Mo has sent us a $6 million check, this sounds crazy to do."
At this point, Doug Band, Bill Clinton's former chief advisor and current president of the infamous Teneo Holding Doug Band, chimed in that it probably is a good idea: "If he doesn't do it Chai will say he didn't give the money bc of wjc" an assessment which John Podesta agreed with: "this seems rather easy and harmless and not a big time sink."
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To be sure, this exchange suggested that a substantial amount of cash had or was about to be exchanged between the Clinton Foundation and the Saudi "Sheikh Mo", as shown in the photo below.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
Please Lord, let Trump win so he can drain the swamp and restore honor to America. In Jesus’ name, amen.
"...and Amitabh Desai, Director of Foreign Policy at the Clinton Foundation"Anyone else see a problem with a private charity operating a "foreign policy" directive?
He coudda been a real playa if he had just thought of "charitable foundation" instead of "protection", prostitution, union thuggery, and loan sharking...
The greatest gangsters on Earth do everything “legally”
Why does Boss Hogg come to mind here?
Those (prostitution, thuggery, etc..) may be there after the rock covering them is pried up and turned over. The Clintons and Obamas are nothing but thugs and con men.
LOL
I think this is half the reason the CFF has been treated with kid gloves by congress. On one hand, they're repulsed by such blatant corruption. On the other hand, they'd like in on this action themselves.
That's what is so F***ING FRUSTRATING about her 30,000+ missing (i.e. wiped) emails. She has the audacity to tell us with a straight face that they were about weddings and yoga classes!!!
No, they weren't!
The Clintons didn't become obscenely wealthy giving inspiring speeches and writing books. They sold political influence! AND EVERYONE KNOWS THIS!!! These emails are evidence of criminal activity, the reason she demanded a private email server in the first place!
Huma Abedin will be my personal hero if it turns out she stupidly, accidentally, unwittingly archived Hillary Clinton's entire email record for the past 8+ years. In a just world, her boss needs to be perp-walked to prison.
Everything with the Clintons is ‘about the money’... has been that way FOREVER!!!
There are, in fact, not one but five separate FBI investigations which involve members of Clinton’s inner circle or their closest relatives.
The five known investigations are into: Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin’s estranged husband sexting a 15-year-old; the handling of classified material by Clinton and her staff on her private email server; questions over whether the Clinton Foundation was used as a front for influence-peddling; whether the Virginia governor broke laws about foreign donations; and whether Hillary’s campaign chairman’s brother did the same.
Chinese government front? Wang Wenliang, the billionaire McAuliffe at first claimed he had never met, filmed entering a fundraiser attended by the governor at Clinton’s home
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/23/chinese-donor-linked-to-terry-mcauliffe-probe-also-caused-trouble-for-hillary.html
“Indirectly the Clinton Foundation has political influence, that’s why people give to it,” Jim Mann, former Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, told CBS.
Cue up the music: “Everybody Wang Wenliang tonight”.
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[–]space_10 4 points 5 months ago
Might be part of the reason the US is loosing trade wars etc.
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[–]ackthpptdizzydean on Old Kos[S] 5 points 5 months ago
And the sad part of a sad story of corruption:
McAuliffe added that he and the Clintons “travel in the same circles” and that donors to the Clinton Foundation have been “friends of mine for years and years.”
On the 74th floor of the Time Warner Center, Condominium 74B was purchased in 2010 for $15.65 million by a secretive entity called 25CC ST74B L.L.C. It traces to the family of Vitaly Malkin, a former Russian senator and banker who was barred from entering Canada because of suspected connections to organized crime.
Last fall, another shell company bought a condo down the hall for $21.4 million from a Greek businessman named Dimitrios Contominas, who was arrested a year ago as part of a corruption sweep in Greece.
A few floors down are three condos owned by another shell company, Columbus Skyline L.L.C., which belongs to the family of a Chinese businessman and contractor named Wang Wenliang. His construction company was found housing workers in New Jersey in hazardous, unsanitary conditions.
The foreign owners have included government officials and close associates of officials from Russia, Colombia, Malaysia, China, Kazakhstan and Mexico.
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VITALY MALKIN, FORMER RUSSIAN SENATOR Official who battled the Canadian authorities over entering their country.
They have been able to make these multimillion-dollar purchases with few questions asked because of United States laws that foster the movement of largely untraceable money through shell companies.
Vast sums are flowing unchecked around the world as never before — whether motivated by corruption, tax avoidance or investment strategy, and enabled by an ever-more-borderless economy and a proliferation of ways to move and hide assets.
Three months after Clinton and Giustra met, they traveled around the world together on a trip that included a stop in Kazakhstan where Clinton introduced Giustra, who was closing in on a $425 million mining investment there, to the Central Asian country’s leader. Giustra made millions on that deal.
Each leader came away from the dinner with something. Clinton collected a $500,000 pledge from Kazakhstan’s president to assist Hurricane Katrina victims. Nazarbayev issued a press release claiming support from Clinton for Kazakhstan’s bid to chair the 56-state Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, based in Vienna. Kazakhstan was awarded the chair last November.
Clinton and Giustra were in China three days later when negotiations concluded on the uranium deposits, according to an October 2005 Canadian securities filing that outlines the deal.
The titular seller of two of the three properties was Mukhtar Ablyazov, 44, Kazakhstan’s energy minister in the late 1990s. He received $350 million through holding companies he controlled in Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands, according to the filing. The government retained a 30 percent stake in the properties.
Dzhakishev says Ablyazov, a college roommate of his in the 1980s, had obtained title to the uranium deposits from the government in early 2005, assuming $1.7 million in debt.
Everything with the Clintons is ‘about the money’... has been that way FOREVER!!!
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not everything!
they were both about the women, too
Ewee... the creepiest First Couple of all time...
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