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House Republicans Asks For Investigation Into Clinton Foundation |
townhall.com ^ | 7/13/16 | CONNOR HOFFMANN

Posted on 07/14/2016 6:55:25 AM PDT by Liz

House Republicans have began to call for another Clinton investigation, this time into possible corruption that the Clinton Foundation may have caused. This is the result of a new letter that has began to circulate among Congressional Republicans. Rep. Marsha Blackburn is the author of the letter, and she feels that "the Foundation's activities cannot be ignored."

This letter will be sent to FBI Director James Comey, IRS Director John Koskinen and Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez.

"Public corruption undermines the integrity of representative government and institutions associated with elected or public officials," the letter says. " However, the failure of government agencies can have an even more damaging affect. We ask that each of the agencies review these allegations pursuant to your jurisdictional charge."

One issue mentioned is the decision by-then Secretary Clinton to allow Russia to obtain a controlling stake in a U.S. uranium company. Some argue that this decision was the result of the donations of Ian Teller, a major Foundation donor, and the Russian Company Uranium One. Uranium One donated multiple times to the Foundation for a total of $2.35 million, and Teller's Fernwood Foundation donated more than $2 million. Secretary Clinton then was one of the people who approved the sale of this uranium, according to Blackburn.

Another possible corruption that the Clinton Foundation may be involved with is all of the arms deals that Hillary approved to countries that donated to the Foundation. The Clinton State Department approved $165 billion of commercial arms sales to 20 countries that donated to the foundation.

The letter also raised concerns of the tax status of the foundation. It points to the fact that the Foundation was originally approved as a domestic public charity to help with construction of President Clinton's library in Arkansas, not foreign charity missions. Blackburn wants to make sure that the IRS has amended the Foundations paperwork to reflect its status as operating as a foreign charity foundation.

Charles Ortel, a Wall Street investor who has been involved as a trustee for two public charities, explained that their has been no evidence that the IRS ever approved their foreign-directed missions. "I find no evidence in the public domain that it was ever authorized to engage in any other activity other than as a Presidential Library," said Ortell. He even called it "an illegally constructed front masquerading as a charity."

The news of this letter comes after Comey refused to testify on whether or not their is a separate investigation going on about the corruption of the Clinton foundation.

Check out earlier letters Rep Blackburn she sent to the IRS and the FTC regarding the foundation. (link at site)


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clintoncrimefamily; clintonfoundation; hillary; marshablackburn
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1 posted on 07/14/2016 6:55:25 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

Foxes...henhouse...
Comey...Clinton Fdn...


2 posted on 07/14/2016 6:57:31 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: Liz

Ugh! stop it already


3 posted on 07/14/2016 6:58:59 AM PDT by Donglalinger
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To: Liz

How many Legions does the Repulicans control?


4 posted on 07/14/2016 6:59:49 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Liz

That’s ongoing already.


5 posted on 07/14/2016 7:00:28 AM PDT by meatloaf
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To: Liz

“This letter will be sent to FBI Director James Comey, IRS Director John Koskinen....”

ooooh a strongly worded letter, I’m sure they’re shakin’ in their boots.


6 posted on 07/14/2016 7:03:04 AM PDT by JPJones ( You can't help the working class by paying the non-working class.)
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To: Liz

Marsha Blackburn. Keep an eye on this one.


7 posted on 07/14/2016 7:05:36 AM PDT by Genoa
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To: Liz

Comey,”Denied”.


8 posted on 07/14/2016 7:07:07 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Liz

Once again, the Republicans are a day late and a dollar short. They should have had this investigation, with an independent prosecutor, last year. I’m not sure whether this is kabuki theater to try to fool their base or if they are really this incompetent. They are a freakin joke.


9 posted on 07/14/2016 7:10:07 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Liz

“The chickens... are coming hooome, to ROOST!!”


10 posted on 07/14/2016 7:10:12 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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11 posted on 07/14/2016 7:10:57 AM PDT by matthew fuller (Obama Strategy: Disarm, divide, disrupt, diminish, desecrate, and destroy USA and Christianity.)
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To: Donglalinger

Oh boy, they’re really gonna get the Clintons this time. Yesiree!


12 posted on 07/14/2016 7:10:58 AM PDT by Right Brother
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WHY??? This is golden in the papers and headlines online.

Why would we ever want them to stop the theater NOW???

I don’t give a #### i this one ##### goes to jail compared to saving the lives of 300,000,000 people!!!


13 posted on 07/14/2016 7:11:54 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Liz

Queen Hillary laughs at these counter-royalists!

She is our Queen!

She doesn’t need to explain her actions to her subjects!

Did these counter-royalists learn nothing from the FBI and the Department of Justice?

The Queen rules!

May the Democrat Royalty rule for a thousand years!


14 posted on 07/14/2016 7:13:49 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
-- I'm not sure whether this is kabuki theater to try to fool their base or if they are really this incompetent. --

An investigation is an essential step in a whitewash.

The letter is loaded with platitudes about "trust in government" and "trust in institutions."

15 posted on 07/14/2016 7:14:00 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Liz

Pssst...House Republicans, the American voters are on to your theatrics, we do not believe or trust you. And soon .... you’ll be fired!


16 posted on 07/14/2016 7:15:33 AM PDT by Ms Mable
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To: Liz

Ask?

UFO aliens will land before the EXEMPT (despite promise)
GOP (Give Obama Power) Party finds a single
atom of testicular fortitude among any of their
submissive, complicit, treasonous, IRS-instigating,
alQaeda-weaponizing, 100% deceitful lot.


17 posted on 07/14/2016 7:15:57 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Genoa

VP?


18 posted on 07/14/2016 7:17:07 AM PDT by aspasia
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To: aspasia

Trump could do a lot worse.


19 posted on 07/14/2016 7:18:42 AM PDT by Genoa
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To: Liz

Maybe she is just checking all the dots,remember Director Comey when asked if he had investigated Hillarys statements in her Benghazi testimony,he replied No,he hadn’t been asked to..
So he has been asked about this now


20 posted on 07/14/2016 7:19:16 AM PDT by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
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