Posted on 04/09/2008 1:59:42 PM PDT by SpaceBar
Tax data shows $15 million from partnership with Arab sheik
The tax returns released by Bill and Hillary Clinton late Friday reveal $15 million earned in a partnership with billionaire "supermarket czar" investor Ron Burkle and the sheik of Dubai, whose Arab state sparked controversy with a purchase giving it control of 22 American ports.
Burkle is widely known as a top "FOB," or "Friend of Bill," whose corporate jet Bill Clinton has used so often the New York Observer claims Clinton has taken to calling it "Air Force Two."
The news comes with the disclosure Burkle's Yucaipa Companies have created Yucaipa Global Holdings, a multi-billion investment fund whose three investment manager general partners are Burkle, Bill Clinton and the ruler of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum.
Al-Maktoum was the ruler at the center of public outcry over national security concerns when Dubai Ports World proposed in 2006 to acquire the London-based company that operated 22 ports in the U.S.
WND also reported al-Maktoum has moved to acquire 19.9 percent of the Nasdaq in New York, the second largest stock exchange in the U.S.
Dubai, as WND reported, is also one of the six Persian Gulf nations that has amassed some $1.7 trillion in Sovereign Wealth Funds.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Bubba just keeps on giving!!
The worm turns
What goes around comes around
Never spit up in the air
Justice is served
etc., etc., etc.... couldn’t happen to a more untrustworthy couple.
Congressional hearings for both ‘big grocery’ and ‘big port’...
Criminals who want the whitehouse again!
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