Posted on 09/29/2015 2:53:52 PM PDT by lbryce
Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill Clinton are very rich, raking in some $25 million in 2014. They own multiple mansions. They vacation in style. They make 4-5 times the median annual income for giving one speech to a room full of Wall Street executives and/or brutal dictators. Since they left the White House “dead broke” in 2001, they’ve pocketed more than $200 million. But at least some of that massive haul is unaccounted for in their annual financial disclosure, raising some interesting questions, such as, “Where is it?”
Dan Alexander explains in Forbes:
Since Bill and Hillary Clinton left the White House in 2001, they have earned more than $230 million. But in federal filings the Clintons claim they are worth somewhere between $11 million and $53 million. After layering years of disclosures on top of annual tax returns, Forbes estimates their combined net worth at $45 million. Where did all of the money go? No one seems to know, and the Clintons aren’t offering any answers.
From 2001 to 2014 the power couple spent $95 million on taxes. Hillary’s 2008 presidential run cost her $13 million. Their two homes cost a combined $5 million, and the Clintons have given away $22 million to charity. All of this is according to FEC filings, property records and years of tax returns. Add it up and you get $135 million. If the Clintons made $230 million, spent $135 million and have just $45 million left over, what happened to the other $50 million?
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It seems unlikely, but they could have given it away overseas: Donations to foreign charities are not deductible and would not be listed on tax returns. Billionaires like Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, Lakshmi Mittal of India and Joseph Safra of Brazil have donated to their foundation. Maybe the Clintons are returning the favor?
$50 million seems like a lot to pay off Clinton aides like Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, who may soon be thrown under Hillary’s email bus. Could money convince Joe Biden not to run? Maybe they gave some of it to their daughter Chelsea? She’s already rich, but her husband is really bad at managing hedge funds.
Anything and everything about the Clintons makes for a surreal existence. Do they even have a marriage in the conventional sense? They don't even live together.
Actually, spending $50 million over 15 years is not that hard for people like this. Servants, gifts, travel, fancy meals....it all adds up.
$2.7M per year?
Chump change.
Clintbilly got a 5% rakeoff from the drug business coming up from Latin America. It’s a pretty safe guess that he stashed at least a billion dollars away in foreign banks before he left the White House. After all, the Presidents of Mexico all left office with at least that much.
Hillary’s job was to ferry the cash across the Atlantic in an attaché case, which she did regularly.
And as this article notes, they’ve been making plenty more money since leaving office. I’d say several billion can’t be far wrong.
(....and I would add to this it's for political purposes, too).
A very ethically and morally sick couple, to be sure.)
Leni
That these corrupt trailer trash scum are this powerful proves we live in an idiocracy.
He was elected by idiots.
Expensive escorts for Bill, and the keep-quiet payoff to the hookers? Expensive.
They will be grifters until they place dimes on their eyelids.
Sandy Burglar stole it.
That's in the top secret Slick Willie Rape Defense Fund.
No, you don’t understand. Hillary is to be admired for holding her marriage together and working through difficult times.
The Arkansas Mafia, AKA Hillary and Bill Clinton strike it rich.
Hillary/Bill Clinton...CORRUPT TO THE CORE.
What I think is the weirdest thing about the Clintons is their personal compatibility, sexual incompatibility, in terms of both being megalomaniac inherently pathological, utterly solipsistic,(they are the only ones to exist in their self universe) vainglorious miscreant clones of each other, bereft of even the slightest infinitesimal modicum of moral integrity, principle except for the "ME" principle.
And undisclosed payoffs to countless rape victims, legal fees, etc.
Thanks for the information but from what you’ve provided Klein’s book doesn’t offer the slightest thing that isn’t palpably obvious.
Leni
The Foundation pays for all of that. That's why they only have 10% left over for actual charitable work.
Bigger question is, where are they stashing the suitcases full of Chinese cash that has been coming in?
Bigger question is, where are they stashing the suitcases full of Chinese cash that has been coming in?
Probably in offshore accounts.
I can't say I blame either one for not wanting to co-habitat with the other. Would you? LOL!
Yet if anyone else {the non exempt class} transfers anything near $10K to or from their personal banking account for private family matters they automatically raise unwanted & unnecessary government suspicions?
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