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Jan 20, 2015: Podesta, Palmieri Wyss links could be a problem for Hillary Clinton in 2016"....White House Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri has served two Democrats in the Oval Office — President Obama and President Clinton — and reportedly hopes to work for a third, but that prospect could pose a big ethics problem for Hillary Clinton.

That problem is Hansjorg Wyss, a controversial financial benefactor of John Podesta who reportedly will leave his position as senior counselor to Obama in order to manage Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. Podesta would be an obvious candidate for White House chief of staff in a Hillary Clinton presidency. Palmieri is reportedly slated to be communications director for the campaign.

Palmieri and Podesta are long-time allies, having both served in the Obama and Clinton administrations in key positions. They are also both former top executives of the Center for American Progress that Podesta founded in 2003. The liberal think tank is a fertile source of ideas and talking points for Democrats........

Wyss is a reclusive Swiss billionaire who is among the center's biggest contributors and is a member of its board of directors.He is also the former head of Synthes, a corporation that conducted illegal human drug trials that resulted in the deaths of three people. As the Washington Examiner reported last July, four of Wyss's executives at the corporation served jail terms as a result of the illegal trials. The federal judge who heard the case said the company's "pattern of deception is unparalleled."

Podesta, Palmieri and Wyss have been financially linked for years. The center received $4.1 million from Wyss during Podesta's tenure as the liberal nonprofit’s founding president and chief executive officer. When Podesta joined the Obama White House, he listed on his financial disclosure form an $87,000 consulting fee he received from Wyss's private foundation, the HJW Foundation....... "

...Donna E. Shalala -- later a Clinton administration Health secretary -- recalled her as a "natural leader. She took on the same kinds of problems that corporate executives deal with."

Yep, she sure did! I remember it. January 23, 1998 (my birthday) Secretaries Shalala, Albright and Daley trotted out to the Rose Garden to deny that Bill Clinton did not do those things to that girl, Ms. Lewinsky.

Soon proven wrong, she (they) embarked on the "not impeachable offense" mantra and likely later the "a BJ is not sex" excuse. [hard to remember all these because that defense became the rage in politics, pundit and media foreplay - there was just too much BS flying around about the BJ to remember it all].

Yep, a real, hard working corporate titan who took on the tough jobs.