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Obama Adviser Podesta Caught Green-Handed In Major Ethics Violation
Daily Caller ^ | 1/29/15 | Richard Pollock

Posted on 01/29/2015 2:18:57 PM PST by Nachum

In 2013, John Podesta was paid $87,000 by a shadowy foreign billionaire whose passion is preventing energy exploration on American land. Just two years later, Podesta is a member of President Obama’s inner circle, and the driving force inside the White House to block 12 million acres of land in Alaska’s Artic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling. The circumstances suggest Podesta may have run afoul of Obama’s highly-touted ethics pledge, which requires political appointees to disqualify themselves in matters relating to the interests of a former employer or client. Podesta — who is preparing to leave the White House

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2013; adviser; anwr; billionaires; caught; clintonfoundation; econuts; energy; hansjorgwyss; hillary; obama; oil; podesta; swissbillionaire; switzerland; wyss

1 posted on 01/29/2015 2:18:57 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum
Is this another unexploded ethics/criminal activity bombshell from this admin? Will any of this touch any of these elitist SOBs? I highly doubt it.
2 posted on 01/29/2015 2:21:33 PM PST by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
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To: Nachum
Podesta — who is preparing to leave the White House.... a little faster than he anticipated.............
3 posted on 01/29/2015 2:21:53 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Nachum

“by a shadowy foreign billionaire whose passion is preventing energy exploration on American land.”

Saudi?


4 posted on 01/29/2015 2:23:22 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Nachum

Swiss guy, some green nutball.


5 posted on 01/29/2015 2:25:42 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Nachum

Anyone want to bet the foreign billionaire is from Russia with connections to Iran?


6 posted on 01/29/2015 2:25:43 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Red Badger

Leaving the whitehouse and going to work for Hillary


7 posted on 01/29/2015 2:53:25 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

Nothing will happen. Podesta’s a criminal, pure and simple. But since he’s one of them, nothing will happen.


8 posted on 01/29/2015 3:08:17 PM PST by huckfillary
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To: Nachum

This should be Breaking News

BTT!!!


9 posted on 01/29/2015 3:15:38 PM PST by Ray76 (al Qaeda is in the Oval Office (and John Boehner is their craven servant))
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To: GreyFriar

“Leaving the whitehouse and going to work for Hillary”

Exactly. Podesta always was and always will be a Clintonista. Everything else has been merely biding his time.


10 posted on 01/29/2015 3:19:56 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: DesertRhino

http://wyssfoundation.org/about-the-wyss-foundation/


11 posted on 01/29/2015 3:24:29 PM PST by Ray76 (al Qaeda is in the Oval Office (and John Boehner is their craven servant))
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http://wyssfoundation.org/wyss-foundation-joins-the-bill-hillary-chelsea-clinton-foundation-on-no-ceilings-the-full-participation-project/


12 posted on 01/29/2015 3:27:10 PM PST by Ray76 (al Qaeda is in the Oval Office (and John Boehner is their craven servant))
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To: Nachum

Podesta is also heading up the Hildabeasts new run for the White House


13 posted on 01/29/2015 3:31:44 PM PST by ballplayer
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To: Nachum

This will go no where.

There will be the usual kabuki and nothing will come of it.


14 posted on 01/29/2015 3:52:58 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Nachum

yet another scumbag criminal with no integrity. What a surprise...


15 posted on 01/29/2015 7:19:56 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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Hansjorg Wyss — a foreign billionaire with intimate ties to the United States’ top Democrats — wants authorities to imprison an American woman for speaking publicly about allegations of sexual abuse at his hands.

22 posted on AM by piasa
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To: SeekAndFind; Liz
 
“He sexually assaulted me – me screaming no (to) stop it,” she wrote in her own hand writing in a statement to police that was obtained by TheDCNF.
She charged that he “almost suffocated me by putting his fist in my mouth.  I struggled and pushed.  I thought for sure he was going to kill me,” she wrote to police.  She also charged he roughly penetrated her with a ...
The four deaths caused by the illegal medical testing and the repeated allegations of sexual abuse of women contradict the carefully cultivated image of Wyss as a compassionate philanthropist. He is a major donor to 186 liberal groups, bestowing more than $132 million on them since 2002, according to his Form 990 filings with the IRS.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/08/hillarys-no-ceilings-project-accepted-5-million-from-sexual-abuser/3/#ixzz4MxJaWYYq

23 posted on AM by piasa


16 posted on 11/16/2017 3:00:03 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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