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There’s Money to Be Made (Review of CLINTON CASH)
WSJ ^ | 6 May 15 | JAMES FREEMAN

Posted on 05/07/2015 3:33:40 AM PDT by elhombrelibre

The last time Bill and Hillary Clinton occupied the White House, it wasn’t easy to identify a guiding principle of U.S. foreign policy. But if Americans allow them to move back in, the former first couple will bring along a standard that is clear and consistent. Based on the evidence marshalled by Peter Schweizer, the new Clinton Doctrine seems to hold that wherever freedom and the rule of law are threatened, wherever corruption reigns and individual liberties are denied—there is money to be made. In such places, big windfalls can accrue to Clinton friends, who are nothing if not grateful and shower donations upon the Clinton Foundation and speaking fees upon the Clintons themselves.

Almost every page of the fascinating “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich” will be excruciating reading for partisans on both sides of the aisle. Mr. Schweizer, a former speechwriting consultant for George W. Bush, will have conservatives trying to imagine a Republican appearing to do so many favors for business allies and getting away with it. Liberals will wonder why they have to nominate someone whose friends and associates are getting rich in some of the world’s poorest countries.

“The Clintons’ most lucrative transactions originate not in places like Germany or Great Britain, where business and politics are kept separate by stringent ethical rules and procedures,” writes Mr. Schweizer, “but in despotic areas of the developing world where the rules are very different.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: clintoncash; clintonfoundation; pages; peterschweizer
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A reveiw of a book that tells us:

How to get rich by influence peddling for money from the most corrupt, backward, and usually poor countries in the world.

1 posted on 05/07/2015 3:33:40 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
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“Liberals will wonder why they have to nominate someone whose friends and associates are getting rich in some of the world’s poorest countries.”

No they won’t. It is much ado about nothing” they will say and line up like drones to vote for Queen Cankles.


2 posted on 05/07/2015 3:45:27 AM PDT by Bucky14 (And I would have gotten away with it too, if not for you meddling kids!)
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To: Bucky14

The Clintons always have been about one thing, and that is money. Everyone with half a brain and the eyes to see knows it. But the lib ‘Rats don’t care as long as they “win”. So they’ll vote for Hillirat for no other reason than there are supposedly female organs in there somewhere.


3 posted on 05/07/2015 3:58:48 AM PDT by chimera
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To: elhombrelibre
No matter where it "originated", their bankers had to know about it.

Why isn't anyone talking about them?

4 posted on 05/07/2015 4:17:01 AM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Francis)
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5 posted on 05/07/2015 4:18:06 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: elhombrelibre

This is so much worse than just 2016 elections. If there isn’t an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation and Hillary’s non-disclosing these deals, we don’t live in the US of A anymore. It has ceased to exist.

Libs care about little people and human rights?? Imagine how many people in the world have and will suffer at the hands of the people the Clintons kissed to get rich off. Libs say “They all do it,” please. Show money grubbing at this high level from any R President or candidate.

AND IF THE ADMIN IS NOT INVESTIGATED AS WELL... Note that Obama is not calling for the head of his duplicitous sec of state. Was he in on it?


6 posted on 05/07/2015 4:21:22 AM PDT by Yaelle ("You're gonna fly away, Glad you're going my way... I love it when we're Cruzin together")
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Schweizer writes in his fascinating book, “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich”.....“The Clintons’ most lucrative transactions originate not in places like Germany or Great Britain, where business and politics are kept separate by stringent ethical rules and procedures, but in despotic areas of the developing world where the rules are very different.”

Author Schweizer sums up the Clintons on page 183 of his blockbuster book: "The Clintons are perhaps the most politically sophisticated public figures of their generation. They know how things work in the corridors of power and around the world; they know that foreign governments are trying to influence American foreign policy; and they know that bribery is rampant around the world. The (cunning-calculated) Clintons have numerous avenues for making money."

7 posted on 05/07/2015 5:02:02 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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AN INTERESTING DEVELOPMENT: Quoting Bill Clinton at the Foundation meeting in Marrakesch WRT the Clintons' buckraking: "I Just Work Here. I Don't Know."

(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)

Billionaire donor Mo Ibrahim tells Clinton his own daughter (a Clinton foundation board member) is useless.

Meaning Clinton's secret extracurricular buckraking----unknown to the board.....have rendered board members useless.

Actually, that's a very important legal point---board members are, by law, fiduciaries of the Foundation.

If Clinton bypassed them when he did deals that raked in donations, the tax-exempt Foundation may have violated tax laws.

8 posted on 05/07/2015 5:11:02 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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The Clintons' cadre of puckered-up ***-kissers (lying-in-wait for federal jobs)---are spinning the explosive "Clinton Cash" revelations like crazy----blathering about "not a shred of evidence" of criminal wrongdoing, or as ABC's George Stephanopoulos helpfully repeated over the weekend, "There's no smoking gun."

The party-line is that "it’s extremely difficult to identify a direct quid pro quo"....b/c while Hillary was Secy of State, foreign funny money was moving around from hand to hand with big money deals approved which she could say were going to be approved anyway.

And golly, gee.....at the same time, all that foreign money was flowing into the charitable Clinton Foundation..... not into Hillary’s bank account (/snicker).

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THE CLINTON MO---rather than taking cash from blatantly illegal activities (THAT WE KNOW OF TO DATE) and then cleaning it through legitimate businesses, the cunning Clinton Foundation:

<><> (1) mops up cash from wealthy foreigners,

<><> (2) bundles it within a larger organization to hide the money’s original source, and,

<><> (3) funnels the cash from that legitimate charity into the Clinton Foundation coffers.

Then from the foundation coffers, better believe the money-laundering is an intense 24/7 operation.

(more below)

9 posted on 05/07/2015 5:13:42 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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LOOKING THROUGH THE WRONG END OF THE TELESCOPE The Buckraking Clinton Foundation sucking up foreign donations is morally reprehensible----but the real crimes are what exactly they are doing with the corporate/foreign monies once its in their Foundation's tax-exempt coffers.

So how'd they do that? Remember, Wall Street makes money disappear faster than a cream puff at a Weight Watchers weigh-in.

EXHIBIT ONE--- Dec 05, 2011---Fox News Report: Bill Clinton Reaped Big Bucks from Corzine Firm Before Collapse--- MF Global Employee Links Clinton to the Bankrupt Firm

A former MF Global employee accused former president Bill Clinton of collecting $50,000 per month through his Teneo advisory firm in the months before the brokerage careened towards its Halloween filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, reports Human Events.

Teneo was hired by MF Global’s former CEO Jon S. Corzine to improve his image and to enhance his connections with Clinton’s political family, said the employee, who asked that his name be withheld because he feared retribution, according to Hum/Events. Teneo is a dual-track company with one side devoted to merchant and investment banking and the other side set up to provide image and strategy consulting services. Clinton is the chairman of the company’s advisory board, reports Hum/Events.

SOURCE http://nation.foxnews.com/mf-global/2011/12/05/report-bill-clinton-reaped-big-bucks-corzine-firm- collapse#ixzz1fhH3pHHH

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EXHIBIT TWO--Then-Secy of State Hillary gave her close aide, Huma Abedin, “State Dept special status".....Abedin was working for Hillary at State....... AND simultaneously working for Bill Clinton, as a private contractor for his company, Teneo Holdings.

Abedin, reportedly had private email addresses on the Clinton email server system (underlining Democrats' greatest fear: the intersection of undisclosed foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton’s secret email address. Huma Abedin's sweetheart deal: (1) an outside private six-figure consultant at the State Department, and, (2) “special government employee” status, and worked a sideline---as a private contractor.

One of Huma's clients was Bill Clinton's Company----Teneo Holdings----self-described as a dual-track political/banking consulting firm that calls itself the “next chapter in strategic advisory.”

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EXHIBIT THREE---An earlier NYT's expose tarred Bill Clinton w/ Teneo's sub rosa dealings. Teneo is run by Clinton aide---Doug Band. Prosecutors found Band and Clinton listed in pedophile's Jeffry Epsteiin's records as having a shocking 21 email addresses and tele nos. Can you say money laundering? L/E recognizes multiple phone nos and email as the classic MO for money- laundering and tax evasion.

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EXHIBIT FOUR---Chelsea's husband runs a hedge fund that gained access to investors who had ties to the Clintons---even as reports surfaced that Mezvinsky's hedge fund had "underwhelming" returns.

The WSJ reports extensively on the fund's underperformance since its inception and Mezvinsky's mediocre investing and strategizing. Back in 2011, Mezvinsky, now 37, and two former Goldman Sachs colleagues — Bennett Grau and Mark Mallon — began raising money for Mezvinsky's Eaglevale Partners LP hedge fund. Some of Eaglevale's investors included Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. Blankfein, a slavish Democrat supporter, said he had "always been a fan of Hillary Clinton."

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EXHIBIT FIVE-- The eternal Clinton/Goldman Sachs connection. Then-Pres Clinton's WH aide Rahm Emanuel also worked as a Goldman Sachs lobbyist.....both at the same time

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Here's Hillary cozying up to Goldman Sachs.

Then-US Sens Clinton and Corzine. Corzine was fresh out of Goldman Sachs
executive suite, buying his NJ Senate seat office for $65 million; then buying
the NJ governorship. Out of office, he ran a hedge fund where $1.5 B went missing.

10 posted on 05/07/2015 5:14:36 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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AND IF THE ADMIN IS NOT INVESTIGATED AS WELL... Note that Obama is not calling for the head of his duplicitous sec of state. Was he in on it?

Imagine a quid pro quo where Hillary has no hope of becoming president and Jarrett has no intention of allowing it anyway. Imagine the mere appearance of her candidacy increasing her price on the college speaking circuit, and the number of grubby hands of despots dropping lucre in her purse.

Now imagine the color of this country changing in a generation, overrun with illegals who have no memory of a Constitutional Republic, not just ready but more than willing to cede their freedom to a more enlightened UN government, run by people much smarter than you or I.

How many in our children's generation would stand up to such false authority in the US? Not many, I'd wager.

Jarrett is content to let a republican inherit the un fixable mess in 2016. She's already won the long game.

11 posted on 05/07/2015 5:43:48 AM PDT by IncPen (Not a single patriot in Washington, DC.)
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Now imagine the color of this country changing in a generation, overrun with illegals who have no memory of a Constitutional Republic,


A note of encouragement. When I was in Mongolia after the demise of USSR, after about 70 years of suppression, one of the first things they did was to rediscover their heritage. Which in their case was Genghis Kahn and Buddhism.

In the OT are many similar stories.


12 posted on 05/07/2015 5:50:54 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Bucky14

The only thing liberals will ask is “is there another Democrat who can beat Hillary and win the election?” If the answer is “no” they have to stick with Hillary no matter what and hope the talk generated by this book fades away in a week or two.


13 posted on 05/07/2015 6:42:08 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: elhombrelibre

They learned from their buddy Soros.

The Clintons only have one child.

Where did they have her wedding?

At a Soros estate.

That speaks volumes to anyone who will listen.


14 posted on 05/07/2015 6:53:08 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Soros?

No, this is the Carter Foundation but on steroids. I’ve written here about the abuse of the nonprofit corporation laws in America for over 10 years. I was talking about the the Jimmah Carter Foundation slush fund and peanut factory years ago. The Clintons have taken the Carter business model and expanded it.


15 posted on 05/07/2015 6:57:37 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (NO MORE IRS!)
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“... at least four Clinton Foundation board of directors have either been charged or convicted of financial crimes, including bribery and fraud.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/07/revealed-four-clinton-foundation-trustees-charged-or-convicted-of-financial-crimes/

From link:

“... at least four Clinton Foundation board of directors have either been charged or convicted of financial crimes, including bribery and fraud.”


16 posted on 05/07/2015 8:05:27 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Rewarding the angriest and most violent made the Middle East unstable"...Baltimore too. -D.G.)
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To: elhombrelibre
“The Clintons’ most lucrative transactions originate not in places like Germany or Great Britain, where business and politics are kept separate by stringent ethical rules and procedures,” writes Mr. Schweizer, “but in despotic areas of the developing world where the rules are very different.”

One reason for 'the abject poor' in these hellholes is corrupt leaders. That's why Africa is so popular with scammers.

17 posted on 05/07/2015 8:07:44 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Rewarding the angriest and most violent made the Middle East unstable"...Baltimore too. -D.G.)
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Yup. That’s why the Clinton scammed them, and they know that they won’t get held responsible.


18 posted on 05/07/2015 8:13:30 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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Wow—that needs to be blasted across the net and beyond


19 posted on 05/07/2015 8:18:12 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: sickoflibs; GOPJ; PGalt; ken5050; justiceseeker93; stephenjohnbanker; Jane Long; Diogenesis; ...
... Clinton "sez" he dont know nuttin' about foundation stuff.....

"I only work here," he says w/ a straight face.

So Clinton "innocently" flew to far off Kasahstan to get the deal rolling....and, just by chance, he met w/ the Kazhak dictator (running for reelection). It was only "dumb luck that Clinton knew how to get govt approvals.

As Judge Judy would say:

Tell me about the conversation you had w/ uranium investor Frank Giustra about uranium mines in Kazkhstan.

How did you know Giustra was looking to get govt approvals to buy uranium mines?

How did you know about getting govt approvals?

What did you say to Giustra? What did he say to you?

20 posted on 05/07/2015 8:48:36 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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