Top Clinton Aide Focused on Private Company 24 Hours After Deadly Benghazi Attack

JUDICIALWATCH.COM ^ | 1/6/16

[Liz]

Judicial Watch Press Room: just-released State Department emails, written 24 hours after the Benghazi consulate attack, show former Clinton chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, quickly moved past condolences over the slayings to focus her attention on the design of her private companys logo. FOIA litigation forced Mills and other Clinton aides to turn over emails from non-State.gov accounts on which they conducted government business.

The emails reference the logo design for the “cdmillsGroup,” a private company set up by Mills on January 3, 2013, a month before she left the State Department. The logo discussion includes another government employee, Jean-Louis Warnholz, then-State Department senior advisor to Hillary Clinton. (Warnholz would later partner with Mills in another company.)

The Judicial Watch lawsuit filed on September 4, 2014, sought: •All records related to notes, updates, or reports created in response to the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. This request includes, but is not limited to, notes taken by then Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton or employees of the Office of the Secretary of State during the attack and its immediate aftermath.

TIMELINE On September 13, 2012, at 4:31 p.m., Judy Trabulsi, a co-founder of the GSD&M advertising firm, sent Mills the following email:

Cheryl — I haven’t stopped watching the news and my heart breaks for Ambassador Stevens’ family, for Hillary (and you) and all those who worked with him. What an amazing life he lived and he had to be among the best Ambassadors in the Foreign Service.

I was going to give you the printouts of the new logos tomorrow (I think they are great) but thought you’d like to look at them over the weekend.

Sending a “heart hug” to you.

Much love – Judy

Trabulsi also attached for Mills another email describing proposed logos:

The first has the cdmillsGroup logo in the sans-serif and the second has it in the serif font. Adjusted the burnt orange color to be more accurate. Both pdfs show the logo, letterhead, business card and envelope. The tag line is printed like a watermark on the letterhead. In addition, as we discussed, you’ll find the “double-globe endeavor branding element” used on a brochure cover and two powerpoint slides. Don’t hesitate to email me back with any questions.

Mills responded to Trabulsi on September 13, 2012 at 11:32 p.m.:

Dear Judy

The bough bent and nearly broke this week – Chris was truly one of our best – HRC had picked him especially to go b/c of who he was and what he represented. And Sean was a rising star. Tomorrow we will welcome their remains home wondering how this would be possible. Thank you for your kind words. And thanks for these – I really like them.

I think my preference is the one that is sans serif font. I will scan some comments on them this weekend – I think it’s exactly what I would want so would have only a few tweaks. Thank you so very much.

xo

cdm

Mills also forwarded the logo discussion to Jean-Louis Warnholz that night without comment. Warnholz, a senior advisor to Mrs. Clinton at the State Department, responded the next day, September 14, 2012, at 1:06 p.m.:

I really like the cdmillsGroup in sans serif font (first attachment) with the slogan. It’s clean and compelling. I still have reservations about the two globes. It just feels a bit too generic to me.

Separate Judicial Watch FOIA litigation uncovered documents that show that Cheryl Mills used the cdmillsGroup to represent Hillary Clinton in communications with the State Department about Mrs. Clinton’s separate email system.

The cdmillsGroup is apparently still in business. The Hillary For America campaign’s September 3 FEC disbursement report lists a $28,500 payment to the “CdmillsGroup LLC.”

Judicial Watch previously released documents revealing that between 2009 and 2011 former President Clinton spoke to more than two dozen leading international investment firms and banking institutions, many of them on more than one occasion. At least one of the documents shows that Mills used a non-governmental email account for the Clinton ethics reviews. Mills reportedly negotiated the “ethics agreement” on behalf of the Clintons and the Foundation that required the Clintons to submit to rigorous conflict-of-interest checks.

Despite this, and in apparent violation of Obama administration ethics rules, the documents reveal that Bill Clinton’s requests for speaking engagement approval were invariably copied to Mills, who was involved in ethics reviews as chief of staff for Mrs. Clinton at the State Department.

The Washington Post reported that Mills was unpaid for her first few months at the State Department, “officially designated as a temporary expert-consultant — a status that allowed her to continue to collect outside income while serving as chief of staff.”

(Judicial Watch recently filed a FOIA lawsuit for the ethics and employment records of Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, another longtime Clinton aide.)

“These new Benghazi emails are almost obscene,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “That Hillary Clinton aide and confidante Cheryl Mills was focused on the font for the logo of her new company – as our Benghazi facility was still smoldering – is unconscionable. And it is no coincidence that Mills used her new business to help Hillary Clinton cover up her email scandal.”

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[Liz]

INCONVENIENT FACTOID-—The hydra-headed Cheryl Mills-—(1)State Dept Hillary’s COS, (2) Clinton Foundation employee, (3) campaign factotum, and, (4) perennial govt parasite leftover from the Pres Clinton admin-—lives in Washington, DC, with her domestic partner, David Dominici, and their two children, Lucca and Indigo.

David Dominici designed the Nebraska school program,
and became the founding Principal of the school, called
the Maya Angelou Academy. He started his first
nonprofit, DCWorks, at the age of 22.

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DEMAND CONGRESS SEND YOU THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AT ONCE:

The full extent of State Dept grants to Cheryl Mills’ BlackIvy projects listed below, including salaries, expenses and grants, from tax dollars.

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BLACKIVY WEB SITE-— http://blackivygroup.com/portfolio/outdoor-photoshoot/

Our 2015 enterprises to date include:

<><> Indigo Homes, middle and upper income housing in the capital city of Accra and the burgeoning Takoradi region of Ghana

<><> WestPark, the first modern industrial and commercial zone in the asset-rich oil and gas city of Takoradi, Ghana, providing a platform with reliable power and infrastructure to grow manufacturing and other local and international businesses

<><> Coast Intermodal Terminal, an intermodal logistics park in the Coast region of Tanzania, just outside Dar es Salaam. Served by two dedicated rail lines, the 500-acre site will handle cargo loading/unloading, customs processing, and container storage, with scope to expand into an industrial hub over the adjacent 3,800 acres of prime land we secured.

BGRND Founded by Cheryl Mills, former Counselor and Chief of Staff at the U.S. State Department, with Founding Principal Jean-Louis Warnholz, BlackIvy has an experienced and growing team of investment professionals, operators, and experts.

We are backed by an investor group of successful financiers and entrepreneurs, including Beck, Mack & Oliver, Steve Case, Continental Grain, Ray Dalio, Woong-Ki Kim, John Mack and Tony Welters.

BlackIvy assesses economic drivers that favor accelerated development; identifies enterprises poised to capitalize on a regions growth; and, leverages our assets to overcome barriers to entry and operation. We develop nascent opportunities, operating with local partners and teams we have on the ground.

We are skilled at deploying the acumen, talent and relationships needed in Africa. We have earned the trust of private partners, government leaders and local stakeholders.

Africa is the second fastest growing region in the world. The growth outlook is robust and underpinned by the world’s fastest growing middle class, rapid urbanization and untapped mineral and agricultural resources. BlackIvy is anchored in Ghana and Tanzania, with 6.3% and 7% projected annual economic growth (2012-17) respectively.

Our anchor countries serve as the natural gateways to the thriving West and East African regions, enjoy political stability and harness the gains from natural resource booms and middle class consumers entering the marketplace, creating sustained demand growth for new products and service.

COPYRIGHT 2015 BlackIvy. All rights reserved.

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FROM A BUSINESS WEB SITE:

Blackivy Group LLC
Industry Business Consulting Services
Office Address
1361 Locust Rd Nw
Washington, District of Columbia 20012-1325

Blackivy Group LLC is a small, fairly new business consulting company in Washington, DC.
It opened in 2013 and now has an estimated $51,000 in yearly revenue and 1 employee.

[Servant of the Cross]

Top Clinton Aide Focused on Private Company 24 Hours After Deadly Benghazi Attack

[bert]

I would guess the Mills Co is a conduit for draining money from the Clinton Foundation

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Very interesting and interesting comments at the source.

Collateral damage for totalitarians who are put in the uncomfortable position of developing narratives quickly when unforeseen events take place that may shed suspicion on the agenda.

[Liz]

Taxpayers must demand to know who Hillary put on the State Dept payroll as she exited the agency...an old bureucratic trick. Who is cashing US govt checks into eternity thanks to Hllary:

<><> Huma Abedin?...her husband Anthony Weiner?

<><> Cheryl Mills?...her S/O abd father of her two children...David Domenici?

<><> Bill Clinton

<><> Chelsea Clinton?

<><> Sid Blumenthal?

HOW MANY TIMES DID HILLARY USE THIS TRICK? we later learned that Hillary's personal tech (supposedly paid by her)....was listed as a State Dept "contractor" when Hillary exited.

[austingirl]

Just another greedy hog gorging at the trough of our tax dollars.

[Cowboy Bob]

These people need to be shunned. Under the Trump administration, any person or company that does business with any company set up Mills or any other Clinton flunky should be audited by the IRS on a weekly basis.

What legitimate services could Mills possible provide anyone?

[pepsionice]

The legit services? Access to the Clinton Foundation.

[bigbob]

Well, I think Mills is as despicable as they come, but she did make appropriate comments about the Ambassador first and then turned to business. I don’t think it’s a crime to combine two unrelated topics in an email, so no foul on that count.

[Mouton]

Depends what the term legit business services means!

[Thank You Rush]

“”What legitimate services could Mills possible provide anyone? “”

Her sole claim to fame - BEING BORN BLACK >>AND<< defending clinton at the impeachment trial....

I think the Clinton’s teach a course on fleecing the public and there are many graduates. They’re pretty good at it and ensnare everyone in their circle - IF they aren’t agreeable, they wind up in a morgue in some city.....

[Liz]

Hillarys top aides....Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills....used their privileged taxpaid positions at the State Dept to cash/in. They romped all over the State Dept looking for money-making opportunities .....like it was their private playground.

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Alana Goodman of the Washington Free Beacon details how Cheryl Mills, another one of Hillary Clintons longtime underlings, apparently collected a paycheck from New York University at the same time she was serving as Chief of Staff of the State Department.

According to the article: After joining the State Department in the beginning of 2009, Mills continued to serve as general counsel for New York University for several months. She also sat on the board of the “NYU in Abu Dhabi Corporation,” the fundraising arm for the university’s UAE satellite campus. The school is bankrolled by the Abu Dhabi government and has been criticized by NYU professors and human rights activists for alleged labor abuses.

The UAE is a major funder of the Clinton Foundation, on whose board Mills sat. The article quotes NLPC Chairman Ken Boehm: Given her position, the dual position of State Dept counselor and chief of staff, she would have access to almost any decision of importance WRT US national security that came out of the State Department.

[Thank You Rush]

“”but she did make appropriate comments about the Ambassador first and then turned to business””

They are PROS at covering their butts....that’s all that was! What kind of person would even approach a member of the state department about personal business at such a time? What kind of person would feel it was necessary to reply at that time?

[Liz]

UPDATE---Mills rejoined the board of the Clinton Foundation in 2013, after Hillary exited State. Mills currently runs the BlackIvy Group, a consulting firm that focuses on dirt-poor Africans.

DO THIS NOW CONTACT CONGRESS HERE: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

DEMAND CONGRESS SEND YOU THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

<><> Did Hillary’s State Dept grant Cheryl Mill’s BlackIvy Group tax monies?

<><> did any of the Sub-Sahara groups receive foreign aid grants from Hillary’s State dept?

<><>Did any of the Sub-Sahara countries listed below donate to the Clinton Foundation

<><> Did Mill’s BlackIvy Group donate to The Clinton Foundation?

<><> Did the Clinton Foundation partner w/ BlackIvy Group in sub-Sahara projects?

STATE DEPT LIST---SUB SAHARAN AFRICA—— African Union Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Cameroon Congo (Brazzaville) Congo (DRC-Kinshasa) Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia.

NOTE: Sub Sahara African immigrants are streaming in to the US at an unprecedented rate——all subsidized by struggling taxpayers. What do Hillary--and Obama--know about this?

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Then- Sen Hillary took a stand against African corruption, but SoS Hillary looked the other way as the money poured into the Clinton Global Initiative.

Freeport Mines is a major Clinton Foundation donor, giving between $250,000 and $500,000, according to donor records. The Congolese government saw its stake in the mine climb by just 2.5 percent in 2010 after talks that were thought to have been conducted by the State Department "in support of Freeport," the Financial Times reported that year.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Great post, Liz!

[Liz]

WHERE IS TB MOST COMMON?

[MarvinStinson]

hat Hillary Clinton aide and confidante Cheryl Mills was focused on the font for the logo of her new company – as our Benghazi facility was still smoldering – is unconscionable.

[Liz]

The hydra-headed Cheryl Mills---Hillary's COS, Foundation employee, campaign factotum, perennial govt parasite---profiting from state dept connections.....lives in Washington, DC, with her domestic partner, David Dominici, and their two children, Lucca and Indigo.

David Dominici designed the Nebraska school program,
and became the founding Principal of the school, called
the Maya Angelou Academy. He started his first
nonprofit, DCWorks, at the age of 22.

[polymuser]

Cheryl Mills is another political lawyer leach on America. She defended ol’ horndog against impeachment. Black Americans should be totally ashamed of this one.