Posted on 03/08/2008 10:57:44 AM PST by paul in cape
Ethical questions have arisen about former U.S. President Bill Clinton's $700,000 sale of stock given him by a failing Internet company founded by a felon.
Clinton got the non-publicly traded Accoona Corp. stock in 2004, the year the company was created, as a gift for speaking at a company event, The Washington Times reported. Valued at 66 cents a share when issued, he sold the 200,000 shares at $3.50 per share to an undisclosed buyer in May 2006, while the company, backed by the Chinese government, was reporting losses in the tens of millions of dollars.
His wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York, had not announced her intention to seek the Democratic presidential nomination when Clinton sold the stock and plowed the proceeds into the William J. Clinton Foundation, the newspaper said.
The sale was listed on the foundation's tax returns reviewed by the Times. Some ethics experts said they were troubled by the lack of disclosure about the buyer specifically, and the activities of former presidents' foundations generally.
Sheila Krumholtz of the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics, which studies political money and ethics, said former presidents aren't required to disclose donations and stock transactions to their foundations, but they should to avoid the appearance that money was buying special access.
Accoona, based in Jersey City, N.J., was co-founded by Armand Rousso, who pleaded guilty in 1999 to federal money laundering and other charges. The China Daily Information Co., a subsidiary of the Chinese-controlled newspaper China Daily, holds nearly a 7 percent stake in Accoona.
LOL
I guess if it’s $700k, it’s not right to call him a ‘grifter’ anymore...
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Well, hey! who woulda guessed back in 2004, or even 2006, that Hillary was goin' (to use her terminology) to run for President?
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I can't for the life of me see why?
Nah, she was a surprise candidate last year. Nobody suspected she’d run for Pres.
bump for later...
Don’t yall think he should have to share it with the rest of us?
The Clintons: 35 years experience of corruption and incompetence.
I volunteer to hold the money for him while the courts decide whether or not this was ethical.
It seems this special relationship with China goes back a long time, at least to Slick’s time in Arkansas. This connection and the Chinese campaign contributions for the 1996 election was what impeachment should have been about but it was sidetracked to the Monica episode. Ken Starr had gained much evidence and it was all in the evidence room but noone dared look at it.
As with icebergs, only the tip is exposed. Shame on Rush and anyone voting for Hillary to take a chance on putting the grifter in chief back in the White House. Never vote for evil.
Ethical questions have arisen about former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s $700,000 sale of stock given him by a failing Internet company founded by a felon....
as ethical as the piaps gaining $100,000 in cattle futures!!!
I briefly saw where Obama brought that up. LOL
InfoUSA says SEC and internal investigations delays annual report (Millions misspent on Clintons)
Isn’t there some sort of campaign finance law that covers this kind of crap????
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