McAuliffe Defies Trump Voter Commission; His Attorney Led Soros-Funded Voter ID Challenges

freebeacon ^ | June 30, 2017 | Joe Schoffstall

[arthurus]

At least felons. He did that loudly and publicly. He is worried about all the multiple registrations and the noncitizens and the dead people who vote in several locations.

[canalabamian]

WorldCom

[Hyman Roth]

What a cesspool....sad

[InterceptPoint]

If they want their votes to count in Federal elections, they can’t stonewall the government when it attempts to determine if the voting is valid. What they do in state elections is their business.
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You have stated my position with precision. The 9th Circuit Court will, however, disagree.

This could be a long process. We need some Trump lawsuits ASAP. 2018 is just around the corner.

[Taxman]

McAwful is a clear and present danger to Virginia!

He is a classic example of why we SHOULD NEVER ELECT A LIEBERAL DEMOCRAT TO ANY OFFICE IN THE LAND!

[mass55th]

I tried doing a search, but couldn’t find anything. Does anybody remember the voter/donor database the Clinton’s had in the White House? I can’t remember details of it all, but I do remember there were some questions raised about it.

[canalabamian]

GlobalCrossing

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Don’t accept Virginia’s electoral votes if they refuse to comply.

Cut off all federal funds to this renegade state.

[Scrambler Bob]

...and there is no evidence of significant voter fraud in Virginia,...

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no evidence that we will give up ...

[Dante3]

Quite a few illegal aliens are in Northern Virginia. There are also many new immigrants - Asians and others - who vote for Democrats. MS13 have spread to a number of small Virginia communities, and Sanctuary Cities exists. It's sad to see how Virginia has changed.

Whoever opposed voter ID is for voter fraud.

[Rome2000]

You know what would be fascinating regarding this voter fraud cover up attempt by the crook McCauliffe?

A TWEET from TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[politicianslie]

Its amazing that Democrats hate Democracy, and would defend voter fraud.

It's hardly amazing.

The RATS know the only way they can win a national election is with voter fraud, the more the better. If President Trump significantly cuts down on illegal voting, the RAT party is finished.

[Coronal]

Virginia isn’t in the Ninth Circuit.

[Monorprise]

“Turn off any Federal funds going to Virginia.”

It would be easier to simply pose as a Democratic party front group and ask for the publicly available information.

[MarvinStinson]

Virginia has a significant and influential muslim population and network of mosques.

[Qiviut]

What the hell has happened to Virginia?

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Northern Virginia happened - “suburb” of DC & densely populated & infested with members of The Swamp & they screw us over every election. The rest of VA, with the exception of Bobby Scott’s district** is “conservative” for the most part.

**VA 3rd: The district takes in most of Richmond, all of Portsmouth, along with most of the black-majority areas of Norfolk, Hampton and Scott’s home in Newport News.

[MarvinStinson]

Terry McAuliffe’s latest scandal just the tip of the iceberg

by Dr. Steven J. Allen Jun 3, 2016
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/terry-mcauliffes-latest-scandal-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/article/2592889

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, the top Clinton operative who holds elected office, is under investigation yet again. This time, it involves $120,000 given to McAuliffe’s gubernatorial campaign by a billionaire who served in China’s communist legislature.

McAuliffe’s business and political dealings have raised questions repeatedly. For example, in the 1990s, as McAuliffe set records raising money for the Clintons, congressional investigators uncovered a Chinese government scheme to funnel money to the Clinton operation through a number of businesspeople, including a man named “Charlie” Trie. In that case, 94 people either refused questioning, pled the Fifth Amendment, or left the country.

During that period, McAuliffe helped a company named Loral Space get seats on official trade missions, and, reportedly with McAuliffe’s intervention, the Clinton administration overruled national security officials to approve a Loral deal that gave China critical missile technology. Loral’s CEO became the largest donor to the Democratic National Committee, where McAuliffe became chairman.

In 2009, McAuliffe founded GreenTech Automotive, a manufacturer of electric vehicles. “If you have good green projects, there are billions of dollars that are looking for those projects,” he said at the time. Soon after, McAuliffe received a package of special-interest “incentives” — loans, grants and targeted tax breaks — from state and local governments in Mississippi to build a plant there. The taxpayers’ care package totaled at least $5 million. At the plant’s ribbon-cutting, Bill Clinton was an honored guest.

Why did McAuliffe, running for governor in Virginia, build his plant in Mississippi? Because Virginia provided no taxpayer goodies. The Virginia Economic Development Partnership, which hands out “development incentives,” was “dubious of the project from its beginning.” One official wrote, “This company is a complete start-up venture and it appears the management team has no previous experience in automotive manufacturing.”

Despite “failing to satisfy questions about its financing and viability,” McAuliffe kept looking for government handouts. The Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel went so far as to call the fundraising ploy “Terry McAuliffe’s Solyndra” and a “crony-capitalist embarrassment.”

The Mississippi project was supposed to produce 1,500 jobs. Later, company officials dropped that to 350 by late 2014. A recent group photo of employees shows about 75 people.

But there’s more to the GreenTech story than crony capitalism: McAuliffe’s visa business.

Under the Immigration Act of 1990, through a little-known visa program called EB-5, a foreigner can obtain a green card by investing $1 million in the U.S. ($500,000 if the company locates in a rural or high-unemployment area). Both government agencies and private companies can issue EB-5 visas in exchange for high-dollar investment.

GreenTech, shortly after its founding, partnered with Gulf Coast Funds Management — run by Anthony Rodham, Hillary Clinton’s brother — to recruit EB-5 investors. (Today, Rodham runs the GreenTech EB-5 operation, and the two companies share offices in McLean, Va.) Between 2009 and 2012, EB-5 visas helped GreenTech raise $67 million from over 100 foreign investors. Gulf Coast collected more than $7 million of its own during that time, suggesting a massive “visas for sale” scheme. By early 2013, at least 31 Chinese had received green cards through the McAuliffe/Rodham EB-5 operation. (Keep in mind that, in China, there’s no real distinction between the Communist Party, the government and the business elite.)

Gulf Coast attempted to acquire an EB-5 visa for a Chinese telecom executive linked to the Chinese government. Zhenjun Zhang, the Huwaei Technologies executive who coordinated with Gulf Coast, was accused by former CIA Director Michael Hayden of “providing sensitive information about foreign communication systems to Beijing,” according to one report. Yet Gulf Coast still made a pay-for-visa deal.

One possible explanation: Foreign nationals with green cards can contribute to elections, thanks to a loophole that McAuliffe is currently exploiting to excuse monies he (and the Clinton Foundation) received from Chinese billionaire Wang Wenliang.

Coincidentally, Gulf Coast’s Rodham is the godfather of the grandson of Aslan Abashidze, a former official in the former Soviet nation of Georgia, who partnered with Rodham in a deal to export hazelnuts. Abashidze was removed from office in 2004, thanks to public protests stemming from his conviction for stealing $57 million in government funds. Abashidze was also accused of murdering a former deputy.

Money and political power, coming together in business deals involving some of the world’s most corrupt people. The latest investigation into Terry McAuliffe proves the Clinton ‘90s never really ended.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Trump should just tax the heck out of anyone traveling to DC from Virginia :P

Call it a liberal toll tax :P

[MarvinStinson]

Donor to Clinton Foundation, McAuliffe caught up in Chinese cash-for-votes scandal By Laura Vozzella and Simon Denyer September 16, 2016 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/clinton-foundation-mcauliffe-donor-caught-up-in-chinese-cash-for-votes-scandal/2016/09/16/bfb3b8fc-7c13-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html Wang Wenliang, a Chinese billionaire and donor to the Clinton Foundation and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, has been expelled from China’s top legislature after being caught up in a widespread cash-for-votes scheme. On Tuesday, China’s national legislature expelled 45 of its nearly 2,900 members, all from the northeastern province of Liaoning, in a huge vote-buying scandal. The move was part of an investigation into corruption in Liaoning and a much larger national anti-corruption campaign launched by President Xi Jinping. Wang, who made his fortune in construction and running a strategic port near the North Korean border, also has been a big donor to New York University, Harvard University and the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Wang’s $2 million donation to the Clinton Foundation in 2013 made waves when it was disclosed last year because of his ties to the Chinese government. More recently, his name surfaced amid news that McAuliffe (D) was the subject of an FBI investigation. McAuliffe expressed confidence in May that Wang, who gave a combined $120,000 to his 2013 gubernatorial campaign and 2014 inauguration, was a “legitimate donor.” A spokesman for Wang said his ouster was the result of a political “purge” carried out on behalf of Xi. “They get rid of people who are not part of his team,” spokesman Sig Rogich said. He said Wang and the others ousted had only “lobbied decision-makers” with meals and token gifts. “He wined and dined them and gave them a gift,” Rogich said. “It’s not like they gave them cash.” On Friday, McAuliffe’s attorney, James W. Cooper, said the governor “knows nothing about Mr. Wang and his legal situation in China.” Spokesmen for the Clinton campaign and the Clinton Foundation did not respond to requests for comment. Wang’s construction conglomerate, Rilin Enterprises, controls the Port of Dandong and processes significant volumes of soybeans shipped out of Virginia. He was courted in 2011 by Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R), who encouraged Wang’s firm to buy 100,000 metric tons of soybeans from Maryland-based Perdue Agribusiness and ship them from Chesapeake, Va., to China. Wang’s company also helped build the new Chinese Embassy in Washington, assembling and overseeing a team of artisans who would be loyal to both the Chinese government and the principles of feng shui. “There’s a lot of security involved,” Rogich said. “They’re also artistically knowledgeable about what the Chinese want. There’s a lot of feng shui that goes into this, evidently — depictions of the four seasons. . . . Certain colors are not allowed.” Wang’s $2 million pledge to the Clinton Foundation drew attention last year, first from CBS News and then other outlets, because of his connections to the Chinese government — both as a member of the National People’s Congress and as a contractor entrusted to help build China’s embassies around the world. Wang’s political donations to McAuliffe reflect sizable overlap in Clinton and McAuliffe donors. Critics say the pattern suggests contributions to McAuliffe, a close friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s, are intended to curry favor with a former president and an aspiring one. McAuliffe supporters say the overlap is the natural outgrowth of personal and political bonds the governor has forged over a long career as a Clinton fundraiser. Foreign nationals are prohibited under federal law from making political contributions. So are American subsidiaries of foreign corporations if they are financed in any way by their parent companies or if individual foreign nationals are involved in the decision to make the donation. But a foreign national can donate personally or through an American subsidiary if he holds a green card, which Rogich said is the case for Wang. Wang’s name surfaced again in May, when news leaked that the FBI was investigating McAuliffe. CNN, citing anonymous sources, reported at the time that investigators were interested in a contribution the Chinese citizen had made to McAuliffe. The FBI probe remains ongoing, two people familiar with the investigation told The Post, and Wang is one piece of it, one of the people said. Investigators also are assessing whether McAuliffe ran afoul of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, an obscure statute that regulates U.S. citizens’ lobbying of the U.S. government on behalf of foreign governments. They also are examining financial transactions dating back to when he was chairman of the Democratic National Committee, trying to determine if the DNC benefits were illegally linked to Democratic donors, two people said. They are focused on foreign contributors, including Wang and someone from Saudi Arabia, one of the people said. One of the people said there is some skepticism among those supervising the case that criminal wrongdoing occurred — particularly in light of the recent Supreme Court ruling that tossed out the corruption case against McDonnell. Cooper said that McAuliffe had done nothing wrong, that the investigation was unrelated to Wang and that the McDonnell case had no bearing on the McAuliffe probe. [McAuliffe lawyer: Governor did nothing wrong] “This is not a corruption investigation,” Cooper said. “McDonnell was a bribery case. This is not a bribery case. It has nothing to do with it. . . . This is an investigation mainly into whether there’s a Foreign Agents Registration Act [violation].” He also slammed the fact that news of an investigation had leaked to the public. “I cannot overstate how improper it is for government officials to put out information — particularly false information — about matters they have under inquiry,” he said. The shake-up in China, which was first reported by the New York Times, affects China’s National People’s Congress. The body is usually seen as a rubber-stamp body to provide a cloak of legal legitimacy to Communist Party rule. Its members meet only once a year for around two weeks to receive reports from government ministries and the provinces, and to approve policies and the appointment of top leaders, including the president. The NPC’s members are elected every five years from provincial, county and township bodies, although the process is tightly controlled by the party and is very opaque. Membership in the NPC conveys not only status and prestige but access to the top levels of the party and business elite that run China. Many of China’s top business leaders are also members of the NPC. Wang’s connections to the Chinese government run deep. He once worked as an economic adviser to the municipal government in his home town of Dandong in Liaoning. He was a guest at a banquet to welcome Xi on his state visit to Washington last year. Wang, who was born in 1954, has generated some favorable press for sponsoring a conservation project in China’s largest wetlands near the North Korea border and for donating to a mangrove restoration project in Naples, Fla. Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) last year recognized Wang’s efforts to restore Dandong Yalu River Estuary Wetland in China, making a statement on the Senate floor, according to a news release issued by Rogich’s Las Vegas-based firm. Reid’s office did not respond to requests for comment. In China last week, the Liaoning state prosecutor announced it was investigating the former vice head of the provincial legislature, Zheng Yuzhuo, for taking bribes and other illegal acts relating to elections. The province’s former Communist Party chief, Wang Min, was taken into custody in August and expelled from the party on suspicion of taking bribes. According to state media, some 740,000 officials have been disciplined or punished in Xi’s anti-corruption campaign, which is just under 1 percent of the total party membership. Experts say the campaign has also been used to purge rival factions within the party. It was unclear why Liaoning’s legislature has been targeted for such a clear-out — either as a warning to other provinces or because it had offended the leadership in some other way. It is a bastion of state-run heavy industry and may have been dragging its feet in implementing the kind of economic reforms the central government is demanding, some analysts said. Most of those caught up in the probe included top business leaders and executives of state-run organizations. It was unclear if further legal action would be taken against them. “What has happened to the Standing Committee of Liaoning’s provincial People’s Congress is unheard of in the history of China” since the Communist Party takeover in 1949, Li Jianguo, a vice chairman of the NPC Standing Committee was quoted as saying. But in fact, all that is unusual is that people are paying the price for buying votes, independent experts said. “This is really common in China, it is not a new thing,” said Zhang Ming, a politics professor at Renmin University of China in Beijing. “A huge number of people are spending money on this, including big bosses from state-owned enterprises, officials and big bosses from private companies.” He said the scandal had not caused any real outrage in China because it was not a surprise.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Terry McAwful. Doesn’t surprise me.