Hillary enjoyed a cleverly laundered bribe from Tyson Foods with that cattle futures play. Her bit about getting savvy by reading the WSJ was hilarious.
As I understand it, the whole deal was fairly simple. A purchaser buys both sides of a commodities transaction. Post-record the transactions so that Hillary gets the "winner" and Tyson gets the "loser". Tyson, who was already involved in commodities deals, just uses the losses to offset some profitable trades, so our tax dollars actually got used to buy the Arkansas governor.
One huge red-flag which would have gotten anyone else investigated was the activity which netted quick gains and then immediately ceased right at the $100K amount. So I guess we know what Bill's purchase price was then. What person who has that much success in commodities trading doesn't keep trading?
This reminds me of my all-time favorite political joke:
What do you get when you cross a crooked politician with a crooked lawyer?
Chelsea Clinton.