Posted on 06/30/2017 7:37:33 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
This is great, the corrupt states are self-identifying. Now we know where to concentrate our voter fraud investigations.
Such idiots.
By Laura Vozzella and Simon Denyer September 16, 2016>br> 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.
“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.
MCAULIFFE-FBI-HILLARY ‘PAYOFF’ SCANDAL EXPLODES
Clinton headlined fundraiser for $500,000 donation to wife of agency boss
10/27/2016 byBOB UNRUH
http://www.wnd.com/2016/10/mcauliffe-fbi-hillary-payoff-scandal-explodes/
The WikiLeaks revelation that the wife of the FBI official who supervised the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s off-the-books email server got a major campaign cash infusion from one of Clinton’s friends just took a stunning new turn.
The London Daily Mail is reporting Hillary Clinton had raised funds for the political action committee that steered the contributions to the unsuccessful campaign of Democrat Jill McCabe.
McCabe’s husband, Andrew McCabe, was promoted to FBI deputy director and supervised the investigation of Clinton not long after Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who through his PAC Common Good VA, contributed a total of $675,000 to Jill McCabe’s long-shot bid for a congressional seat.
The Daily Mail reported Hillary Clinton headlined a major fundraiser for McAuliffe’s PAC shortly before the group steered nearly $500,000 to Jill McCabe.
Critics are charging that the fundraising effort and McAuliffe’s PAC payments to Jill McCabe cast doubt on the FBI investigation, which culminated with Director James Comey announcing the agency would not refer charges to the Justice Department despite evidence of mishandling of classified information.
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The Daily Mail reported that according to election records, Common Good VA was the largest single donor to Jill McCabe’s campaign, giving her $467,000 between June and October 2015.
Her campaign also received an additional $207,788 from the Democratic Party of Virginia, a group over which McAuliffe has significant control.
Clinton’s ties to Common Good VA go beyond her relationship with McAuliffe, the Daily Mail noted. In June 2015, she headlined a key fundraiser for the group, which reportedly brought in over $1 million for the PAC and the Democratic Party of Virginia.
The report quoted Ken Boehm, chief of the National Legal and Policy Center, who had concerns.
“The fact that Hillary Clinton’s inner circle was raising substantial funds for Gov. McAuliffe’s PAC and this same PAC gave close to a half-million dollars to the campaign of the wife of the senior FBI official involved in the Clinton investigation sure looks like a payoff – a major payoff,” he said.
It previously looked like “serious corruption,” he pointed out.
Now, it’s “much worse.”
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The London paper said Clinton was the feature speaker June 26, 2015, for an event for the PAC and the state party, with all of the money going to those groups.
Andrew McCabe has claimed there was no conflict of interest in the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email system and that he followed the advice from FBI ethics officials on issues involving his wife’s campaign.
But WND reported the chairman of the Virginia Republican Party asked the FBI to review Andrew McCabe’s involvement in the election campaign of his wife.
The party reported a cursory search of social media turned up evidence of campaign activity the bureau has disavowed.
As WND reported Monday, the FBI has insisted Andrew McCabe “played no role, attended no events, and did not participate in fundraising or support of any kind” in his wife’s campaign.
“Months after the completion of her campaign, then-Associate Deputy Director McCabe was promoted to deputy, where, in that position, he assumed for the first time, an oversight role in the investigation into Secretary Clinton’s emails,” the bureau said.
However, John Whitbeck, the chairman of the GOP in Virginia, wrote in a letter to FBI Director James Comey that he found evidence to the contrary.
“After a cursory Facebook search, we found photos that clearly depict Mr. McCabe publicly supporting Dr. McCabe’s campaign as well as a mailer sent by the Democratic Party of Virginia with Mr. McCabe’s picture,” Whitbeck wrote.
“These images are in direct contrast with the statement released … by the FBI. In light of the agency’s recent history, I formally request that the agency provide a sworn statement from Deputy Director McCabe that he did not attend any fundraisers, rallies, or any other political events with Gov. Terry McAuliffe on behalf of or accompanying Dr. McCabe during her campaign. I also ask that your agency take a second look at any role Deputy Director McCabe played in any investigation pertaining to Hillary Clinton or Gov. Terry McAuliffe.”
Facebook image of Andrew McCabe campaigning for his wife:
AndrewMcCabe
Jill McCabe last year unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Virginia state Sen. Richard Black, who had won his previous race by 14 points.
The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story, quoted a McAuliffe spokesman who insisted the governor thought McCabe had a chance to win in the Northern Virginia district, centered in Loudoun County.
“Any insinuation that his support was tied to anything other than his desire to elect candidates who would help pass his agenda is ridiculous,” said the spokesman.
But Black said Monday in a statement that McCabe should have recused immediately himself from the probe, knowing McAuliffe is a Clinton confidante.
“As an attorney, and a former JAG officer who has had responsibilities over the investigation and prosecution of crimes, I am at a loss to see how the FBI could possibly allow Andrew McCabe to oversee the investigation of Mrs. Clinton’s email server scandals,” Black said in a statement. “Mr. McCabe was clearly indebted to the Clinton Campaign because of the support given his wife.”
“I was astonished at how much money she was able to raise – $1.8 million. How convenient for your husband to be a high-ranking FBI official with lots of potential influence,” he continued.
This will show thousands or so dead people voting. Illegals voting and people voting in multiple states.. This is how the Democrats win elections.. If it is a democratic state and the Dem is losing by a slim margin it is recount the vote time and the Dems usually win close recounts in Democratic or Blue states..
Placemark.
DC should just annex NOVA .... fold the northern Swamp lands into the existing cesspool & be done with it.
In other words, McAuliffe confirms that Democrats do not and cannot win elections fairly. He wouldn’t be so protective of cheating otherwise.
I’m on the other side on this one. I think this is a dangerous precedent. Voting should be handled at the State level. Remember, we do it... they can do it and we know what happens when they get their hands on voting records. It’s not worth it right now.
>> What the hell has happened to Virginia?
Exactly. But don’t forget the Democrat Thug Party hired a subversive Libertarian candidate to corrupt the vote.
>> Remember, we do it... they can do it
Seriously, Hildy?
Let us hope all that will come. For now, this just makes it easier to elect a new governor that is not a Clinton bag man.
McAuliffe is the best Democrat governor money can buy, be it in dollars, Soros gold, or Mexican pesos.
If there is any Democrat crooked politician who belongs in jail, it is McAuliffe, followed by Cuomo, Rahm Emanuel, Comrade DeBlasio and Gov. Insane Moonbeam Brown (might as well throw in the reds from Washington State and Oregon too).
And their State’s Attorney Generals and Secretaries of State should also join them, plus the crooked one in Minnesota, Rich, if he is still there (he reportedly fixed the election for Al Franken over Norman Coleman and had documented direct ties to the Communist Party of Minnesota - see www.keywiki.org for the document. Also of a sudden Coleman lost a 600-1,000 vote advantage and lost by 600 votes to Stuart Small Smiley ahole).
For now, this just makes it easier to elect a new governor that is not a Clinton bag man.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The GOP must take the governorship. Or get him at a local politician’s ball game.
An old Chinese proverb states “Pure gold does not fear the furnace” proves the people resisting Trump are not pure. If all of the voting across the nation is just and legal then there should be any problem of investigations. So there should not be any problem of opening up the books an say read them and weep. Ha!
Those who defy are guilty
McAuliffe doesn’t border on the Gulf of Mexico.
Quite a collection.
McAuliffe, Cuomo, Rahm Emanuel, Comrade DeBlasio and Gov. Insane Moonbeam Brown
“Arrest him, he knows what is going on.....”
You can bet the rent he does! He wants to conceal substantial voter fraud. I think he is in deeper than most.
Bingo! It sure seems to me like the states that don’t want us to see their voter rolls and potentially clean them up may be the ones that most need a good cleaning. At least that’s what liberal logic would tell me.
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