I hear you have a foundation. I can be flexible also.
Posted on 04/23/2015 6:28:24 AM PDT by markomalley
I’m not sure if this is a “bombshell” report from the New York Times this morning or if it’s just more of the same old same old when it comes to Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. The Paper of Record has been digging into more details from Peter Schweizer’s upcoming book, Clinton Cash, and finds that there was a lot of money changing hands between interests in Russia, Canada and the United states at a time when Russia was moving to try to gain control of a significant portion of the world’s uranium supplies. (It’s something they seem to have been spectacularly successful at, by the way, since they now own roughly a quarter of the total resources.)
At The Week, Peter Weber summarizes some of the top lines from this extremely complicated story.
From 2009 to 2013, when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, a Russian company owned by state atomic energy agency Rosatom slowly took over a Canadian company that controlled about 20 percent of America’s uranium deposits, The New York Times details in a long exposé. At the same time, people connected to the Canadian company, Uranium One, donated millions to the Clinton Foundation, and some of those donations weren’t disclosed on the foundation’s public donor list, The Times reports.
Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, the Rosatom’s final deal to take a 51 stake Uranium One had to be approved by the cabinet-level Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which included Clinton’s office along with several other cabinet secretaries.
When I said some of the top lines above I was referring to the fact that the Rosatom / Uranium One deals are burying the lede to a certain extent. There are a couple of specifics in the Gray Lady piece which scream for a bit more attention but don’t show up until many paragraphs down in the article. Uranium One’s chairman gave the Clinton Foundation $2.35M dollars which was not reported to the Obama administration by Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State, though there was an agreement in place that all such donations were to be accounted for. And lest you think all of the cash was flowing to the charitable work of the foundation, there was this:
And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.
That’s a half million dollars for one speech from a Russian investment bank. Pretty good work if you can get it, but the timing is certainly suspicious.
The problem with all of this is the same as it’s been since the first of these stories began cropping up. It’s extremely difficult to identify any sort of direct quid pro quo as you pull on the individual threads of the story. In these deals, money was moving around from hand to hand in multiple countries with the end result being approval of deals which the State Department could say were going to be approved anyway. And when the money is flowing into a charitable organization with Hillary Clinton’s name on it rather than her own private bank account it adds on another layer of obfuscation. That’s why it seems to me that the speech payment to Bill (who shares family resources with Hillary) is the more startling story than the other donations. Further, if there was an “agreement” in place that all such donations be reported and Hillary’s foundation failed to do so, that’s also more significant than the actual cash. Does a failure to report constitute a violation of any laws? I’m guessing it won’t, but it still stinks to High Heaven.
Also, while I’m sure we’ll have more on this later today, there’s a parallel story breaking at the same time. Somebody noticed that during three of the years when the foundation was taking in all of these foreign donations, they reported to the IRS that they had received zero such government donations. The foundation has said that those were “accounting errors.”
I’m pretty sure Al Capone said the same thing.
No one arrested yet? Then what’s the big deal? Not like anyone will be held responsible. After all, we are talking about the elite, exempt ones, not us peasants.
I hear you have a foundation. I can be flexible also.
I get the feeling I am living in a James Bond novel!
And who controls the IRS?
WSJ REPORT: Hillary Clinton’s State Department was part of a panel that approved the sale of one of America’s largest uranium mines at the same time a foundation controlled by the seller’s chairman was making donations to a Clinton family charity, records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show. Between 2008-2012, the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative, a project of the Clinton Foundation, received $2.35 million from the Fernwood Foundation, a family charity run by Ian Telfer, chairman of Uranium One before its sale, according to Canada Revenue Agency records.
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BOMBSHELL The Fernwood contributions to the Clinton Foundation don’t appear on the Clinton Foundation website, under an agreement between the Clinton foundation and the Obama administration.
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LET'S GO OVER THIS AGAIN: The WSJ reports the Obama administration had an "agreement w/ the Clinton Foundation" not to list Fernwood Foundation's contributions to the Clintons on its website.
CONCLUSION This explains why, just the other day, White House press secretary Josh Earnest asserted that the Clinton Foundation was “doing excellent work all across the world” and that President Obama was “incredibly proud” of Hillary Clinton’s record at the State Department.
So when Obama was on the golf course when foreign policy decisions were being made by his WH, looking like he "didn't know" about all these radical changes in foreign policy it wasn't b/c Valerie "forgot" to tell him.
Apparently, the insider deal was Obama pleading abject stupidity about US foreign policy being jerked around by the Clintons.......as long as he got his cut of the Clintons' foreign policy finagling.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
The Buckraking Clinton Foundation sucking up foreign donations is morally reprehensible---- but the real crimes are what exactly they are doing with the corporate/foreign monies once its in their Foundation's tax- exempt coffers.
So how'd they do that?
Then-US Sen Clinton and US Sen Jon Corzine. Corzine was fresh out of Goldman Sachs
executive suite. Remember, Wall Street makes money disappear faster than a cream puff at a
Weight Watchers weigh-in.
EXHIBIT ONE--- Dec 05, 2011---Fox News Report: Bill Clinton Reaped Big Bucks from Corzine Firm Before Collapse--- MF Global Employee Links Clinton to the Bankrupt Firm
A former MF Global employee accused former president Bill Clinton of collecting $50,000 per month through his Teneo advisory firm in the months before the brokerage careened towards its Halloween filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, reports Human Events.
Teneo was hired by MF Global’s former CEO Jon S. Corzine to improve his image and to enhance his connections with Clinton’s political family, said the employee, who asked that his name be withheld because he feared retribution, according to Hum/Events.
The Teneo contract with MF Global lasted at least five months, the souce said. “The board cancelled it after Corzine resigned.” The source, who is no longer associated with MF Global, said Teneo is a dual-track company with one side devoted to merchant and investment banking and the other side set up to provide image and strategy consulting services.
Clinton is the chairman of the company’s advisory board, reports Hum/Events.
SOURCE http://nation.foxnews.com/mf-global/2011/12/05/report-bill-clinton-reaped-big-bucks-corzine-firm- collapse#ixzz1fhH3pHHH
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EXHIBIT TWO--Then-Secy of State Hillary gave her close aide, Huma Abedin, “State Dept special status".....Abedin was working for Hillary at State....... AND simultaneously working for Bill Clinton, as a private contractor for his company, Teneo Holdings.
Abedin, reportedly had private email addresses on the Clinton email server system (underlining Democrats' greatest fear: the intersection of undisclosed foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton’s secret email address. Huma Abedin's sweetheart deal: (1) an outside private six-figure consultant at the State Department, and, (2) “special government employee” status, and worked a sideline---as a private contractor.
One of Huma's clients was Bill Clinton's Company----Teneo Holdings----self-described as a dual-track political/banking consulting firm that calls itself the “next chapter in strategic advisory.”
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EXHIBIT THREE---An earlier NYT's expose tarred Bill Clinton w/ Teneo's sub rosa dealings. Teneo is run by Clinton aide---Doug Band. Prosecutors found Band and Clinton listed in pedophile's Jeffry Epsteiin's records as having a shocking 21 email addresses and tele nos.
Can you say money laundering? L/E recognizes multiple phone nos and email as the classic MO for money- laundering and tax evasion.
Don’t you wish you could get that close to Putin?
Ping
Not to worry folks.
Our government is free to seize ANYTHING from ANYBODY at ANY TIME in these United States, & rarely needs a good reason (it’s a secret) to do it.
There are multiple ways to accomplish this: Eminent Domain, National Security, an IRS seizure, or just a Senator or 2 with generous, ambitious friends. One little EPA raid could shut this operation down for good over a leaky water fountain.
I guess the Russians figure that mere seizure is not as bad as seizure & assassination or imprisonment in Russia.
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