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How Hillary Clinton's White House loss may be a 'double-edged sword' for the Clinton Foundation
CNBC ^ | November 20, 2016 | Javier E. David

Posted on 11/20/2016 5:24:31 AM PST by FourtySeven

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To: marktwain

Yeah who did this audit?
Emily’s List?
Ask the Haitians about Clinton fund accountability
Ask Chelsea’s wedding vendors ( if they ever got paid)


41 posted on 11/20/2016 6:12:47 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: FourtySeven

I’m interested in what will happen to Huma.
She has lost her position as confidant to the potential/ actual First Lady.
Her usefulness to the Saudis and /or other M.E.States could very well be a thing of the past.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Huma and Hillary part company.


42 posted on 11/20/2016 6:13:19 AM PST by Vinnie
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To: marktwain
Must be leftist “nonprofit” “watchdogs”.

Or, to paraphrase a Limbaugh description, "...two people in an office with fax machine paid for by Soros".

43 posted on 11/20/2016 6:14:04 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Flick Lives

Check before you give: http://seriousgivers.org/charitycheck101/?gclid=CjwKEAiAsMXBBRD71KWOh6fcjRwSJAC5CNE1Mt-vo6YM3z2lO7XXyelEbAJ19MeKdlQ1_OsAKJi7XRoCrz3w_wcB

You’d be surprised that highly touted orgs are top heavy admin pay vs what is given to the receiver. We just had a Wounded Warrior scandal a few months back. And we all Know Red Cross and Komen are bad.


44 posted on 11/20/2016 6:14:59 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: Merry CHRISTmas, Happy Birthday JESUS CHRIST, suck it up buttercup you lost)
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To: Awgie

I wonder if Bill’s fake university will end up like Trump Univerdity.


45 posted on 11/20/2016 6:15:03 AM PST by batterycommander (Surrounded? Stay clammed and call for artillery. USNA 65)
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To: bert
For sure, the conniving Clintons used the Madoff MO......course, Madoff would not be in jail for 150 years if he had concocted some "charity" into his shady deals.

BACKSTORY When he went to jail, investigators found Ponzi King Bernie Madoff
had stashed billions offshore-----into a labyrinth of financial entities.

COLLUSION AND CONSPIRACIES GALORE Some $8.9 billion was funneled to Madoff through a dozen so-called feeder funds based in Europe, the Caribbean and Central America......a labyrinth of hedge funds, management companies and service providers that, to unsuspecting outsiders, seemed to compose a formidable system of checks and balances.

But the purpose of this complex architecture was just the opposite: the feeder funds provided different modes for directing money to Madoff in order to avoid scrutiny.

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WIKI.COM NAILS THE MADOFF OPERATION (emphasis added) Stanley Chais, a "philanthropist" who invested heavily with Mr. Madoff, and Carl J. Shapiro, one of the money manager's oldest friends, are among at least eight Madoff investors and associates being scrutinized by the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan. Prosecutors are continuing to probe Madoff family members and employees.

Others include: Frank Avellino, a Florida accountant who ran an investment fund that invested client money; Noel Levine, a real-estate investor who works out of a two-room office on the 17th floor, next door to Madoff's fraudulent investment operation, and Palm Beach investor Robert Jaffe, a son-in-law of Mr. Shapiro who referred potential investors to Madoff.

Entity called Madoff Securities International Ltd.----In 2008, about $1 billion was transferred between Madoff’s U.S. firm and Madoff Securities International Ltd. in London. On March 24, 2009 Judge Louis L. Stanton granted power of attorney to Irving Picard, trustee, over Madoff's controlling stake in London.

Authorities in the U.K. are seeking evidence of money laundering involving the London business, Madoff Securities International Ltd., which opened in 1983 as a separate legal entity from Mr. Madoff's U.S. New York office.

He allegedly sent more than $250 million beginning as early as 2002, from his New York-based firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, to the U.K. office and then back to accounts in the U.S.

In 2000, Madoff began to add staff and expand the operation, and loaned the business $62.5 million. He had a staff of 25, including traders, managers and support. Instructions to staff was that they communicate with Madoff Securities through personal e-mail accounts, not through company e-mail.

There were nine directors. Family members with shares included Mark and Andrew Madoff, Peter Madoff, and Bernard himself. Ruth Madoff, Bernard Madoff's wife, also held shares. [8] Non-family members with shares included Maurice J. "Sonny" Cohn. Madoff and Cohn were shareholders in Cohmad Securities, which steered investors to Mr. Madoff's advisory business.

In 1987, Mr. Cohn had shares of Madoff Holdings Ltd., a predecessor to the current London firm. In 1998, Mr. Cohn held 35,624 non-voting shares, some of which he transferred to "BL Madoff" in 1998, and the rest that he "disposed of" in 2004.

Paul Konigsberg, a New York City accountant and a longtime friend for more than 25 years, prepared two Madoff Family Foundation tax returns, and received the non- voting shares, valued at $35,000. He did work for the London office when it was first opened. [8]

A general ledger of Madoff accounts listed Konigsberg, of the reputable accounting firm of Konigsberg, Wolf & Co., as receiving $30,000 a month to advise the MSIL operations, and funnel client checks to the London office for Madoff's own use.[9]

Clients were often directed to Mr. Konigsberg by Mr. Madoff and his family. Mr. Konigsberg prepared the tax returns of foundations of six other families, many of which have lost millions, even hundreds of millions, of dollars. He also represented scores of individual Madoff investors.

Mr. Konigsberg's firm has received a civil subpoena from the SEC. His Madoff-related clients included Carl and Ruth Shapiro, Boston philanthropists whose foundation lost $145 million, and whose son-in-law, Robert M. Jaffe, under investigation, is a Madoff business partner.[9][10]

Konigsberg held Madoff accounts under his name including two in the name of the Westlake Foundation. Paul J. and Judith Konigsberg are officers and directors of the foundation. He owns homes in his wife, Judith's name in Greenwich, Connecticut and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.[11]

On April 20, 2009, Steven Leber filed a $4 million lawsuit against Konigsberg and his accounting firm for negligence, and breach of fiduciary duty.[12] Konigsberg answered the charges with affirmative defenses.[13]

Evidence is being gathered by investigators on a U.S.-U.K. task force that Konigsberg and Levy, a real-estate mogul and philanthropist are believed to be involved in an international transfer of money. Levy is believed to have helped Paul Konigsberg funnel checks to London. And investigators in New York say there were billions of dollars worth of checks going back and forth between Madoff and Levy.

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One Levy entity---a "do-good tax-exempt foundation" "says" it "lost" $224 million "investing" with Madoff. Supposedly the foundation helped the "less fortunate," especially ex-convicts. NOTE "losing investment money" is a tax-write-off.

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Looks like Madoff helped himself to his "investors'" money. The suckers
thought Madoff was just doing them a favor---money-laundering, and tax evasion.

Right Bill?

46 posted on 11/20/2016 6:26:09 AM PST by Liz ( Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: ronnie raygun
"the American people want heads to roll and roll they will"

The gallows at Ft. Leavenworth will be good enough.

47 posted on 11/20/2016 6:26:33 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: newnhdad

They now have nothing to sell except their grandchildren.


48 posted on 11/20/2016 6:43:14 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: FourtySeven

The Clinton Foundation was modeled after the Family Foundation in Godfather III.

It was a crime organization begging for a RICO investigation.

This article is blowing as much smoke as possible—either the author is insanely stupid or totally corrupt.

Well—both could be true simultaneously.


49 posted on 11/20/2016 6:50:27 AM PST by cgbg (Pedophiles--the siren is wailing--incoming!)
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To: Sacajaweau

Oh, I think Huma will divorce Carlos Danger. He no longer brings anything to the table. She married him thinking would be NYC mayor and when that went south he became useless.


50 posted on 11/20/2016 7:20:19 AM PST by surrey
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To: marktwain

That’s where I quit this article too.


51 posted on 11/20/2016 7:21:35 AM PST by uncitizen (will never get tired of winning)
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To: dp0622

Double edged. One side for hillary and one side for bill :)

Forge another one for Huma and Weiner.
____________________________________________________________________________

Hey, you left out Web Hubbell’s kid.


52 posted on 11/20/2016 7:28:20 AM PST by Joe Bfstplk (A Deplorable in Texas)
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To: dp0622

It should be a freaking light saber and burn through everything and everyone it touched.


53 posted on 11/20/2016 7:37:24 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (what a mess we got ourselves into)
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To: FourtySeven

Unless President-elect appoints her as UN ambassador [which will never happen], she is going to have to figure out how to handle all of those I.O.U.’s-for-access.

‘Concerns’ did not just donate all of those $millions for the Clintons’ to play around with. They will expect something worth those $million in return or the return of those $millions.

BJ is probably already out of the country and HC is likely packing up her ‘important’ stuff. Poor Chelsea may be left holding the bag as the cronies hint at giving her a run for a politican office.


54 posted on 11/20/2016 7:56:25 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: FourtySeven

Hillary insisted that the foundation would not be dissolved if she won, because without it, bribes she received would look unmistakably like bribes. She needed the foundation to continue to launder huge amounts of money. No one will contribute now that the access she was selling has dried up.


55 posted on 11/20/2016 8:18:27 AM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: FourtySeven

If the charity was about charity not access wouldn’t it be the same regardless?

If there is any decrease in donations that is prima facia evidence that it was about access to people in power.


56 posted on 11/20/2016 8:43:16 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: FourtySeven

I would say it was less proper to receive foreign donations while a sitting Secretary of State than as a citizen candidate. Not saying the latter is right, but sheesh, there is direct evidence of an actual quid pro quo in the leaked emails.


57 posted on 11/20/2016 8:50:37 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #MyPresident)
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To: FourtySeven
Despite scoring relatively high in accountability and transparency by nonprofit watchdogs

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

58 posted on 11/20/2016 9:04:51 AM PST by pabianice (LINE)
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To: wastoute

Even if Hillary had won, she’d have to direct those bribes to a different legal entity; I suspect many criminals realized they themselves are open to prosecutions for paying the bribes.


59 posted on 11/20/2016 9:58:48 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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