Exactly. I read the article a few times, waiting for the writer to name a legitimate beneficiary of the Clinton Foundation.
Nothing. That's because he knows the beneficiaries...
Posted on 08/27/2016 7:42:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
There seems to be sufficient evidence that anyone contributing substantially to the Clinton Foundation believes or believed that there was a 'pay for play' element to the donation. There seems to be equally sufficient evidence that Donald Trump has admitted that he made his political contributions over decades to insure that he had access to politicians where he was 'paying to play'. A great pair to draw to: alleged payee and alleged payor.
Let's put the 'pay to play' issue aside for a moment and focus on the potential nightmare that the Clinton Foundation needs to avoid.
That nightmare is not about the Clintons, they can fend for themselves; the nightmare is about the charities supported by the Clinton Foundation. Regardless of how anyone feels about the Clinton Foundation, there is a significant charitable element and the Foundation has made and has committed to make continuing charitable contributions to many important charitable activities.
Many of those charitable projects are on-going. To the extent possible, it is the obligation of the independent members of the Board of Directors of the Foundation to protect these on-going charitable efforts. It is a difficult role and one where the outside directors will need to wear their 'big-boy' pants if they do not want to spend the rest of their lives apologizing for the collapse of the Clinton Foundation.
The challenges: Is the Clinton Foundation doomed regardless of whether Hillary wins or loses in November? What can be done to protect the Clinton Foundation assets and continue its charitable projects throughout the world if the Foundation is, in fact, doomed?
The Clinton Foundation is very likely doomed after November, probably already: The Foundation is in a difficult if not impossible position: It is likely that donations to the Foundation will dramatically decrease no matter who wins the presidency in November. If Mrs. Clinton wins the election, given the information that has been disseminated over the past few months, the big donors will probably be afraid to make donations. If Mrs. Clinton loses, given her and her husband's age and there being no political future for the former first couple, those same donors will also likely disappear. The donations have undoubtedly already begun to cease.
Clinton Foundation assets: The more than one hundred million dollars of pledges already made will likely become difficult if not impossible to collect. How does one go to a foreign person or entity and demand payment (particularly if Mrs. Clinton is President of the United States). The Foundation's comments about not accepting contributions if Mrs. Clinton is elected are off-mark. The Clinton Foundation needs to collect what has been promised. Further, the same issue exists for domestic individual or corporate receivables and future domestic contributions. An interesting question would be the response of voters or the attorney general to the Clinton Foundation collecting receivables after the election of Mrs. Clinton. Paying to play?
Crisis Management: The Clinton Foundation is like a business that relies on a single patent that suddenly becomes not protected because of some event or ruling. Worse than the starting quarterback being hit by a bus. The underlying political reasons to donate to the Foundation are gone.
The independent members of the Board of Directors at the Clinton Foundation should immediately begin reducing expenses, confirming pledges, eliminating anyone from the Board or any employee not directly involved in the charitable side of the business, reconstructing the Board to eliminate any hint of conflict and even consider merging into a well respected foundation to reduce administrative expenses.
There are thousands of people around the world counting on the Clinton Foundation to continue to fund important programs. These are important responsibilities for the Clinton Foundation and really are more important than the attendant politics.
Is the Clinton Foundation funneling $$ to Web Hubbell’s daughter in gross overages in salary as to avoid Federal Gift Taxes Laws?
I read some here she is paid over 1/2 mil a year to do nothing??
If that aint $$ laundering nothing is....although that depends on what the meaning of is is!!
What are these “important programs?” Name two or three that have in fact benefited from Clinton largess.
Crisis Management: The Clinton Foundation is like a business that relies on a single patent that suddenly becomes not protected because of some event or ruling. Worse than the starting quarterback being hit by a bus. The underlying political reasons to donate to the Foundation are gone.
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it’s tough to run a criminal enterprise in the light of day
I have an idea! Instead of talking in code, let’s use English!!The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.In plain English, “pay to play” is bribery. And there’s laws agin' it. Arcane concept, I know . . .
Exactly. I read the article a few times, waiting for the writer to name a legitimate beneficiary of the Clinton Foundation.
Nothing. That's because he knows the beneficiaries...
IF Hitler-y Clinton is, by hook or by crook, “selected”
POTUS. FLUSH. And HIBERNATE far away from the cities.
Keep your armaments and store up a bit of food & water, if
you haven’t got a well. Pray first.
Those “charities” are probably just as crooked as the Clinton Foundation.
So, how much money is the benevolent Clinton Foundation sending to help the people of Mississippi and Louisiana who have lost everything?
“It is the obligation of the independent members of the Board of Directors of the Foundation to protect these on-going charitable efforts”
Spoken like a true idiot liberal. It is the ‘effort’ to ‘seem’ charitable in the process of slush fund money laundering pay-for-play, and not actual results, which seem to be be miniscule at best, that matters. The writer couldn’t present any actual facts regarding gifts to charities. There seems to be very little proof of this at all.
Excellent article by one of the few genuine journalists
Don’t forget Clintons also have some “LLC’s” outside of the Clinton Foundation......One that I know of is WJC, LLC and the other is ZFS Holdings, LLC
That would be Chelsea’s half sister, right?
I just read she is staying with the foundation.
No doubt about it. The only one they benefit are the criminal Clintons and no one else.
<><>the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI),
<><>the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton (BHCC) Foundation,
<><>the Clinton Foundation Hong Kong,
<><> William J. Clinton Foundation Charitable Trust (Kenya),
<><>William J. Clinton Foundation Charitable Trust (UK),
<><> the Clinton Foundation Insalingsstiftelse (Sweden).
<><> the Clinton/Guistra Partnership, Canada.
“significant charitable element.” my ass.
Why am I not surprised
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THE CLINTONS' ABILITY TO GET RICH EXPLOITING NATIONAL
DISASTERS UNDER COVER OF THE CLINTON FOUNDATION IS
LEGENDARY and they do it w/ your tax dollars.
Haiti, the Clintons and Digicel
BFF---Clinton and Digicel CEO/billionaire. Dennis O'Brien.
O'Brien chairs the Clinton Foundation's Global Initiative---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 his book, "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 State Department's "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, and 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 dirt-poor, earthquake-ravaged 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.....using your tax dollars.
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REFERENCE---“The Clintons and their cronies were running Haiti. As Special Envoy, and Co-Chair of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission IHRC, Clinton made all the decisions. Nothing happened there without his imprimatur. Nothing. No reconstruction contracts were approved, no money was paid out unless Bill okay-ed them. And Hillary's top aide Cheryl Mills was right behind him, traveling to Haiti thirty times herself. Mills live-in scored big rebuilding/retooling Haiti's schools (as a govt contractor?)" NOTE: Hillary's bro said some "guy" gave him .10,000 acres there, plus bro got a rare permit to mine gold (permit's on hold due to controversy).
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