Clinton Campaign Chair's Undisclosed $35M Russian Deal

Lifezette ^ | 02 August 2016 | Shannon McGorry

[Lorianne]

site is seizing up so I can't copy contents ... could be my own machine causing problems. If someone else can create an excerpt I'd be obliged.

[alancarp]

SHANNON McGORRY / LIFEZETTE.COM

A bombshell report released Sunday by the non-partisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI) revealed that John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, developed undisclosed relationships with a Putin-connected Russian government fund.

Podesta served on the executive board of an energy company called Joule Unlimited, which received $35 million from a Kremlin-connected entity.

The energy company was part of a “Russian reset” program, which then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton helped initiate. The program was designed to build an “innovation city” called Skolkovo, a Russian equivalent to the U.S.’s Silicon Valley. Critics of the initiative, including the FBI, warned that the Russian government would use Skolkovo to gain access to technology and information that would help build up their military.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Clinton Campaign Chair's Undisclosed $35M Russian Deal

Not so long ago even a hint of anything of this nature would mean numerous arrests and the end of political ambitions. Now it is "Ho Hum" and barely gets a mention, much less prosecution. This Country is committing suicide!

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[Lorianne]

Thank you!

[LucyT]

A ... report released Sunday by the non-partisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI) revealed that John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, developed undisclosed relationships with a Putin-connected Russian government fund.

Podesta served on the executive board of an energy company called Joule Unlimited, which received $35 million from a Kremlin-connected entity.

The energy company was part of a “Russian reset” program, which then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton helped initiate. The program was designed to build an “innovation city” called Skolkovo, a Russian equivalent to the U.S.’s Silicon Valley. Critics of the initiative, including the FBI, warned that the Russian government would use Skolkovo to gain access to technology and information that would help build up their military.

[Pearls Before Swine]

$35 million is a hefty bribe for a person; but it wouldn’t go far in building a Soviet Silicon Valley incubator. The story sounds incomplete.

[VanShuyten]

“Critics of the initiative, including the FBI, warned that the Russian government would use Skolkovo to gain access to technology and information that would help build up their military. “

Unlike Bubba’s sale of missile guidance technology to the Chinese....

[arthurus]

Once upon a time it was highly illegal to accept campaign money from foreign entities, especially governments. Now it is illegal, or rather forbidden for parties other than the Democrats to accept such contributions. Democrats have no enforceable limits to their sources of campaign contributions or to their methods of obtaining them.