How the Clinton Foundation Got Rich off Poor Haitians

National Review ^ | 07/18/2016 | DINESH D'SOUZA

[MaxistheBest]

It filtered money through Haiti and back to itself

In January 2015 a group of Haitians surrounded the New York offices of the Clinton Foundation. They chanted slogans, accusing Bill and Hillary Clinton of having robbed them of “billions of dollars.” Two months later, the Haitians were at it again, accusing the Clintons of duplicity, malfeasance, and theft. And in May 2015, they were back, this time outside New York’s Cipriani, where Bill Clinton received an award and collected a $500,000 check for his foundation. “Clinton, where’s the money?” the Haitian signs read. “In whose pockets?” Said Dhoud Andre of the Commission Against Dictatorship, “We are telling the world of the crimes that Bill and Hillary Clinton are responsible for in Haiti.”

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Haitians such as Andre, however, noticed that very little of this aid money actually got to poor people in Haiti. Some projects championed by the Clintons, such as the building of industrial parks and posh hotels, cost a great deal of money and offered scarce benefits to the truly needy. Port-au-Prince was supposed to be rebuilt; it was never rebuilt. Projects aimed at creating jobs proved to be bitter disappointments. Haitian unemployment remained high, Famine and illness continued to devastate the island nation.

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The Haitian protesters noticed an interesting pattern involving the Clintons and the designation of how aid funds were used. They observed that a number of companies that received contracts in Haiti happened to be entities that made large donations to the Clinton Foundation. The Haitian contracts appeared less tailored to the needs of Haiti than to the needs of the companies that were performing the services. In sum, Haitian deals appeared to be a quid pro quo for filling the coffers of the Clintons.

[Robert DeLong]

Haiti is just the tip of the iceberg.

[Mr Apple]

Lynch is not going to charge bill or hill with anything! But both these criminal clintons will be charged and put on trial after President Trump takes office January 21, 2017.

[ZULU]

Yup. The Clinton Foundation, like the Clintons, is an international Criminal Enterprise. I hope that idiot Comey is NOT investigating them and the investigation comes under a Trump Administration.

[Liz]

Haiti, Malta, the Clintons and Digicel.

BFF---Clinton and Digicel CEO---billionaire. Dennis O'Brien.
O'Brien chairs the Clinton Global Initiative’s Haiti Action Network.
US tax dollars poured into O'Brien's coffers thanks to the Clintons.

EXCERPT Free Beacon May 2015--- The Clintons have been working with Digicel CEO Denis O’Brien in Haiti since 2010, in the wake of the disastrous earthquake. Bill Clinton and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been active players in the country before the quake, but would assume almost total managerial control over the recovery effort via the State Department and the Clinton Foundation.

As Peter Schweizer documents in Clinton Cash, Digicel received millions in U.S. tax dollars from USAID, an agency overseen by the State Department, as part of the Haiti Mobile Money Initiative. The program was designed to establish a mobile money-transfer system that would allow individuals to send donations directly to friends and relatives in Haiti.

The USAID Food for Peace program, which was under the direct control of Hillary Clinton’s top aide Cheryl Mills, benefited Digicel.....to administer money transfers over its mobile network. Haitians received cell phones and a free Digicel account.

Digicel received grants courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, collected millions in fees from Haitians every time they used the system, and significantly expanded its user base.

By 2012, Digicel had captured nearly 80 percent of the Haitian mobile phone market, and Haiti had surpassed Jamaica as the company’s most profitable market. Revenues were up 14 percent compared to 2011, and Digicel’s subscriber base increased by almost 30 percent during that period. O’Brien, who holds a 94 percent stake in the privately owned firm, continued to rake in cash. In 2014 alone, O’Brien awarded himself $650 million worth of dividends.

MORE AT http://freebeacon.com/blog/oh-denny-boy-how-the-clintons-helped-an-irish-telecom-tycoon-makes-millions-in-earthquake-ravaged-haiti/

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Time to look at Malta to find more dirt on the Clintons.

BACKSTORY Secy Hillary poured billions of our tax dollars into Haiti as Bill put on his "do-good" act. But Haitian Americans protested the Clinton Foundation offices say dirt-poor Haitians never got a dime...all of the tax dollars have been laundered into the foundation.

REALITY CHECK In some Haitian mountain villages there's no electricity (maybe generators for a few hours), no water, no septic, etc. - but dirt-poor Haiti does have cell-phone coverage.

Reading the many stories of Clinton "do-goodism" in Haiti....he is invariably standing before a Digicel sign. You can bet your bottom dollar the Clintons get a cut of that action.

That's Digicel's CEO on the left.

The Digicel Group is the Caribbean and Central American telecom empire run by Denis O’Brien, an Irish billionaire officially resides in Malta to avoid taxes..... O'Brien serves as chairman of the Clinton Global Initiative’s Haiti Action Network.

Digicel, the largest mobile provider in Haiti, invested $45 million in the project, which also benefited from $26.5 million in financing from the World Bank-affiliated International Finance Corporation. Hillary also tapped the Sate Dept's USAID agency for more tax dollars for the tax-evadng billionaire.

The State Dept's USAID Food for Peace program, under the direct control of Hillary Clinton’s top aide Cheryl Mills, benefited money-hungry Digicel.....to administer money transfers over its mobile network. Haitians received cell phones and a free Digicel account; Digicel received grants courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, collected millions in fees from Haitians every time they used the system, and significantly expanded its user base.

But it was Bill Clinton who made it all happen.

[Rurudyne]

Something like 80% “administrative cost” ... aka enriching the Clintons ... unless you’re a “progressive” and “open minded” in which case, your brain having already proverbially fallen out, it’s drool, drool, drool ... nothing to see here.

[GnuThere]

“Crooked Hillary doesn’t care about blacks - look at Haiti, folks!!”

Don’t black Haitian lives matter, Hillary??

[Ancesthntr]

If Trump, or someone else financially savvy who is speaking at the convention, would pound on this then it would accelerate HRC’s decline in popularity. I think that there is a chance to REALLY highlight who she and her husband are, how they’ve profited (literally) on the backs of the poor and U.S. taxpayers, and have betrayed this country - and get her into the 42% - 45% range by November. That is landslide territory. I not only want to see Hillary lose, I want to see her, her HINO (husband in name only) and their crime syndicate UTTERLY REPUDIATED. I want the Leftists and the snowflakes to get smacked down so hard that they literally won’t know what hit them.

[Liz]

In 2001, the impeached, disbarred Clinton's scandals on exiting the White House prompted him to make a relief trip to India where he toured the earthquake-ravaged towns - and was met by adoring throngs.

Clinton was acting as honorary chairman of the new American India Foundation (AIF), which included wealthy Indian-American entrepreneurs, executives and doctors who hoped to raise $50million to build some one hundred villages.

The author, Jerome Corsi, points out that neither Bill Clinton nor the Clinton Foundation had IRS approval to conduct earthquake relief efforts. 'And there is no evidence of IRS approval and legal authority in key U.S. states to solicit donations from the general public, yet the foundation certainly did so, according to public filings,' he writes.

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ITEM A close pal of Bill's, Rajat Gupta, was global managing director of consulting giant McKinsey & Company until 2003 when he was removed by the board. Exiting, he gave Chelsea Clinton, a 23-year old Oxford graduate with no experience, a six-figure consulting job.

ITEM Vinod Gupta was another close friend of Clinton who collaborated with Rajat Gupta in forming AIF. Vinod, CEO of Info USA, misappropriated company funds to the tune of $9.5million to pay for his lavish lifestyle.

It was on Vinod's private jets that Hillary flew from White Plains, New York, to Washington, DC, to pick up Huma Abedin and then travel on to Charleston, South Carolina in December 2005, Bloomburg News reported. Hillary turned around and billed the Senate $858 to fly on Vinod's planes.

Bill Clinton made more than $3million as an adviser to Gupta's InfoUSA in 2001 and received options on 100,000 shares of stock. It paid to be close pals with Vinod.

Clinton received an additional $3.3million between 2002 and 2008 for advising Vinod – plus the big bonus of free personal use for the entire Clinton family of Gupta's corporate jets.

Vinod contributed millions to the Clinton Foundation.

'While the Clintons may want to represent their fund-raising efforts in India as an exercise in noble sentiments, the record suggests opportunism might be the better explanation'.

The earthquake in India rehabilitated Clinton's tarnished reputation, according to author Corsi, and Clinton 'used India and the earthquake to cloak himself in a philanthropic mantle that helped him change the channel on his public image as he transitioned back to private life'.

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ITEM Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel, who conducted studies of Clinton Foundation financial reports, alleged that Clinton had 'developed a methodology of exploiting epidemics and natural disasters to raise hundred of millions in "charitable donations" that in a relaxed regulatory environment could be diverted to personal gain, funding Hillary's political campaigns and supporting Democratic Party causes'.

[puppypusher]

“Crooked Hillary doesn’t care about blacks - look at Haiti, folks!!””

The only people Hillary cares about is Hillary and her immediate famaly.Hillary is a parasite and she always has been.

God help the United States if she is elected President.

[Night Hides Not]

...as in Claudio Osorio, as reported in an episode of American Greed.

[headstamp 2]

The Grifters made a deal with Lynch for her continued employment in exchange for her hands off the Clinton Foundation.

[CommerceComet]

Lynch is not going to charge bill or hill with anything! But both these criminal clintons will be charged and put on trial after President Trump takes office January 21, 2017.

If there is any danger of that, Obama will issue pardons on his way out of the White House. There might be a political firestorm but not likely to be any political consequences. Obama and the Clintons are finished as active candidates and there are no major elections for two years in which to punish Obama's party for the pardons. By the time the mid-term congressional elections come around, the pardons will be back-page issues.

If Trump wants to have this prosecuted, he will keep his intentions hidden until Obama can't do anything about it. I have always been convinced that the big Clinton scandal is the Clinton Foundation which is a money-laundering scheme to funnel pay-to-play proceeds to the Clinton Family. Even if Obama pardons the Clintons, I hope that Trump keeps federal investigators going after the Clinton Foundation and then turns over the complete files to the plaintiffs in the myriad of civil lawsuits which could be filed. Keep the Clinton Family in court for the next 20 years and bleed them absolutely dry financially.

[Arthur McGowan]

The House should have the power, by a simple majority vote, to rescind a Presidential pardon. And no Presidential pardon should be possible within a President’s last year in office.

[I am Richard Brandon]

Crime the American way. Everybody knows, but no one it seems, can do anything about it

[apocalypto]

Exactly.

P.S. I thought NR had gone over to Hillary's side.

[GOPJ]

The Haitian protesters noticed an interesting pattern involving the Clintons and the designation of how aid funds were used. They observed that a number of companies that received contracts in Haiti happened to be entities that made large donations to the Clinton Foundation. The Haitian contracts appeared less tailored to the needs of Haiti than to the needs of the companies that were performing the services. In sum, Haitian deals appeared to be a quid pro quo for filling the coffers of the Clintons.

Corrupt liberal elites in action... milking the system for their own benefit on the backs of the powerless. Now I understand why Papa Bush liked Bill Clinton so much... and Jebbie probably does too.

Thanks Dinesh D'Souza for exposing the filthy 'elites' running this country for their own benefit.

[GOPJ]

The Haitian protesters noticed an interesting pattern involving the Clintons and the designation of how aid funds were used. They observed that a number of companies that received contracts in Haiti happened to be entities that made large donations to the Clinton Foundation. The Haitian contracts appeared less tailored to the needs of Haiti than to the needs of the companies that were performing the services. In sum, Haitian deals appeared to be a quid pro quo for filling the coffers of the Clintons.

Corrupt liberal elites in action... milking the system for their own benefit on the backs of the powerless. Now I understand why Papa Bush liked Bill Clinton so much... and Jebbie probably does too.

Thanks Dinesh D'Souza for exposing the filthy 'elites' running this country for their own benefit.

[Robert DeLong]

Me too. Perhaps the steep decline in viewership, and vast cancellations, changed their mind. I don’t know if that is true, but I know I won’t go to their site anymore.

[GOPJ]

Haiti is just the tip of the iceberg.

Wherever the poor, downtrodden and helpless are gathered the Clintons and filthy liberal 'elites' will circle the victims ready to pounce.

Hatians in their hour of need were 'easy pickins' for the the Clinton liberal 'elites' types. I can see why Wall Street pays Hillary millions for 'speeches' so lame she can't give them away free to citizens.