Hillary's $500K Saudi jewelry (from late Saudi King Abdullah in 2012)

The Hill ^ | 08/29/13 03:50 PM EDT | Benjamin Goad

[Dave346]

World leaders lavished President Obama and top administration officials with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewels, artwork and other extravagant gifts last year, the State Department disclosed Thursday.

Most of the gifts are turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration or the General Services Administration (GSA), though recipients are allowed to retain many for official use or buy them for their personal collections.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appears to have received the most expensive gift, described as “white gold jewelry with teardrop rubies and diamonds containing a necklace, a bracelet, earrings, and a ring.”

Bestowed upon Clinton by King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, the jewelry is valued at half a million dollars. It is pending transfer to the GSA, according to the State Department.

The complete list of 2012 gifts, to be published in Friday’s Federal Register, includes dozens of gifts to the president. They range from the relatively modest – a 41-inch saber from the president of Mongolia, valued at $440 – to elaborate presentations, such as a collection of art, photographs and other items from Italy, valued at $124,000.

Bottles of liquor were among the gifts from then-Mexican President Felipe Calderon; the vice president of the People’s Republic of China autographed a red, white and blue basketball for the renowned hoops fan; and British Prime Minister David Cameron gave him a custom table tennis set with U.S. and U.K. decals and paddles.

Descriptions of each of the gifts to White House, agency and military officials was accompanied by the blanket justification that, “Non-acceptance would cause embarrassment to donor and U.S. Government.”

[miss marmelstein]

Hope she doesn’t try to wear it. SHE HAS NO NECK.

[cardinal4]

I wonder who leaked it, I doubt this crooked woman has done an honest thing in her life. She probably only declared it because there were witnesses..

[maggief]

Wonder what the actual value was.

[CatherineofAragon]

"Hope she doesn’t try to wear it. SHE HAS NO NECK."

LOL

[Fresh Wind]

It is pending transfer to the GSA, according to the State Department.

The real one, or the one H*****y had made with gold plating and fake jewels?

[drypowder]

the $500K worth of jewelry she declared was likely just a sample of all that she actually received. Politically and leadership incompetent and thus far an unindicted criminal and will be the next president and for those very reasons.

[Talisker]

It is pending transfer to the GSA...

LOL, in other words, Hillary kept it!

[George from New England]

And how do we know what she kept or hocked?

[PapaBear3625]

the $500K worth of jewelry she declared was likely just a sample of all that she actually received. Politically and leadership incompetent and thus far an unindicted criminal and will be the next president and for those very reasons.

Does anyone here doubt for a second that a $million would be enough to buy the Clintons or the Obamas?

Does anybody here doubt that the Saudis have made use of their money to buy numerous American politicians?

[Fresh Wind]

Well, remember these are the people who stole silverware from the White House when they moved out.

They had to, they were penniless.

[miss marmelstein]

Isn’t this the basis of the Monica Lewinsky scandal? Linda Tripp was assigned to notating the gifts that had to be turned over to the government or other entities when she noticed the Clintons were keeping them all. That turned her from a bureaucrat into a whistle-blower.

[maggief]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/barack-obama/once-again-saudi-king-came-bearing-gifts-really-gaudy-expensive-gifts

A raw ruby-and-diamond necklace and matching earrings given to Prime Minister Stephen Harper by Saudi King Abdullah are in the attic of the prime minister's official residence at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa. (CBC)

A diamond-and-sapphire necklace and matching earrings given to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's wife, Laureen, by Saudi King Abdullah are in the attic of the prime minister's official residence at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa. (CBC)

[SandRat]

That's not her Jewelry! That must be Declared and turned over to the Treasury Deportment, I do believe.

[353FMG]

“white gold jewelry with teardrop rubies and diamonds containing a necklace, a bracelet, earrings, and a ring.”

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She will look downright purty with those baubles, bangles and beads.

[Iron Munro]

The jewelry will disappear like the truckloads of loot she stole out of the White House when she and Bill finally had to leave.

[Fresh Wind]

Only if they’re big enough to cover her face.

[exit82]

All this stuff should be auctioned off and sold.

Then, FREE COLLEGE FOR EVERYBODY!!!! /s

[caww]

I didn’t see them list the $500,000 he also gave her for her election...

[rawcatslyentist]

They had to sell the “W”’s off the computers for gas money back to Arkansas!