Uranium One: Shady Money and the Clinton Foundation

As early as 2009, "the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin's atomic energy business inside the United States."

So it's hard to imagine that no one involved with CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States) knew about the FBI's evidence on Russia.

According to a legal expert interviewed by Politifact, "[The FBI] is well represented as part of the Justice Department's CFIUS team. It would be somewhat surprising to me if a company was under scutiny as a buyer in CFIUS and simultaneously under investigation for criminal behavior by the FBI, but the criminal investigation was not known to the FBI's representatives on CFIUS."

This investigation would have begun under Robert Mueller, then director of the FBI. Now we have no idea if hilary Clinton knew about the FBI investigation. The investigation by the way, was closed in 2015 by Mueller's replacement, James Comey.

Obama's former Attorney General Loretta Lynch blocked an informant from testifying. Loretta Lynch put a gag order on one of the key FBI informants involved threatning criminal action against him if he spoke out.

Of course, a possible high level scandal involving Mueller, Comey and the Obama Administration and the Clintons?

Of course Trump was over that, and in 2017 he got his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions to remove the gag order, and the informant testified to three congressional committees. This informant William Campbell, alleged Russia hired the American lobbying firm "APCO Worldwide" to give 3 million dollars to the Clinton Foundation, to help create a favorable environment for the Obama Administration to approve the Uranium One deal. But evidence of quid pro quo where Hillary Clinton allegedly got the Uranium One deal passed in exchange for money.

See Video Here: America Uncovered

America One gives credit to Peter Schweizer and his book Clinton Cash. America One backs up each claim mentioned were also confirmed and built upon by the New York Times.

SOURCE: https://www.businessinsider.com/nyt-reporter-clinton-lied-about-meeting-2015-4?r=UK&IR=T

New York Times story claimed Bill Clinton tried to deny meeting linked to 'Clinton Cash' scandals
Apr. 23, 2015, Colin Campbell and Hunrter Walke

Frank Giustra with former President Bill Clinton during a press conference announcing the Clinton foundation's new sustainable development initiative in Latin America, the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative, to which Giustra pledged a minimum of $100 million, in New York, June 21, 2007.

-REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton, A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter claims that former President Bill Clinton falsely denied hosting a meeting with Kazakh officials when she tried to write a story that involved his foundation several years ago. Jo Becker, who works on the newspaper's investigative desk, said Clinton only confirmed the meeting took place after she informed him there were photographs. Clinton's role in a deal that involved Kazakhstan, the Russian government, and a man who donated millions to the president's charitable foundation were detailed in a story Becker published on Thursday.

That article revisited some of her earlier reporting and included information from the upcoming book "Clinton Cash," which is generating widespread headlines amid a flurry of reports suggesting it will raise serious questions about Clinton's family foundation.

The donor in question is Canadian mining executive Frank Giustra, a longtime friend of the former president who has given tens of millions to the Clinton Foundation in the past few years. (A couple of hours after the NYT story was published, Giustra issued a defiant statement. We've included that below.) Becker initially wrote about the February 2007 meeting between Clinton, Giustra, and executives from the state-owned nuclear company Kazatomprom in 2008. The gathering took place at Clinton's home in Chappaqua, New York. "When I first contacted both the Clinton foundation — Mr. Clinton's spokesman — and Mr. Giustra, they denied any such meeting ever took place," Becker recalled in footage aired by Fox News on Thursday. However, Becker said Clinton and Giustra both changed their stories after she confronted them with evidence to the contrary.

"And then when we told them, 'Well we already talked to the head of Kazatomprom, who not only told us all about the meeting, but actually has a picture of him and Bill at the home in Chappaqua, and that he proudly displayed on his office wall.' They then acknowledged that yes, the meeting had taken place," Becker continued in the television interview.

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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev greets Clinton in Almaty September 6, 2005.

Clinton arrived in the Central Asian state to sign an agreement admitting Kazakhstan into the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative Procurement Consortium.

REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov SZH/DH-----The purpose of the meeting, then Kazatomprom President Moukhtar Dzhakishev told The Times, was to discuss Kazakhstan potentially buying a 10% stake in Westinghouse, a US nuclear company. Becker's 2008 story also noted one of Giustra's companies secured a deal to buy uranium deposits from Kazatomprom in 2005. That agreement was made after Clinton accompanied Giustra on a trip to Kazakhstan. During the trip, Giustra and Clinton met with Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Clinton issued a statement praising the Kazakh leader despite his questionable, antidemocratic record. The Times called the praise a "propaganda coup" for Nazarbayev. "Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton's charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month.

The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra's more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton's inner circle," wrote Becker and another reporter, Don Van Natta. A spokesperson for the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership told Business Insider they are "working on a formal statement" in response to a request for comment on Thursday. Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership is an initiative of the Clinton Foundation that was cofounded by Clinton and Giustra in 2007. A Clinton Foundation spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Reuters/Lucas Jackson

Fox News host Bret Baier spoke to Giustra before he aired the Becker interview as part of a broader look into the Clinton foundation's fundraising. Baier said the Canadian executive "considers this an old story" and claimed, "he's not interested in politics." On Thursday, The Times published another major report by Becker and Mike McIntire on Clinton, Giustra, and uranium interests. The new report is making waves in the 2016 presidential race because it said that Giustra's mining company, which is now called Uranium One, was only able to sell its US uranium deposits to a Russian state agency because the State Department, then headed by Clinton's wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, signed off on the deal.

Hillary Clinton, then the Democratic front-runner in the presidential race, is not accused of any wrongdoing and her campaign has insisted that she wasn't even involved in approving the Uranium One deal. Her campaign spokesman further noted that other US government agencies also signed off on the sale.

Clinton allies are also dismissing The Times report as part of a series of critical stories linked to "Clinton Cash." Her campaign team and related groups have noted that author Peter Schweizer has connections to conservative organizations and accused his latest work of being a partisan smear against Clinton. Schweizer hasn't responded to multiple requests for comment from Business Insider on these criticisms.

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Update (7:28 p.m.): Canadian Giustra issued a lengthy rebuttal to The Times in a Thursday evening statement: A book that has not yet been published has caused the New York Times to publish a wildly speculative, innuendo-laced article about the Clinton Foundation and my role in contributing money to it. There is not one shred of evidence to back up the Times' conclusions. This is not about me, but rather an attempt to tear down Secretary Clinton and her presidential campaign. If this is what passes for investigative journalism in the United States, it is very sad. The facts do not comport with the story in the New York Times. The reporter, Jo Becker, wrote a similar piece in 2008, which was eventually debunked by Forbes.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/12/giustra-clinton-kazakhstan-pf-ii-in_rl_0912croesus_inl.html

Senator: "Obama Admin. Misled About Uranium One"
TruNews ^ | Dec 12, 2017 | Rick Wiles
FR Posted on 12/13/2017, 6:59:24 AM by smileyface

In a letter to Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairwoman Kristine Svinicki, Senate Environment & Public Works Committee Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) is demanding an explanation for how U.S. uranium left the country after the Uranium One deal.

The senator, who represents the home state of three of the company’s uranium recovery facilities, said he registered “strong concerns” about the 2010 deal with President Barack Obama. He said he now believes the response he received, and the “process” through which he received it, were “misleading.”

He notes that in March of 2011, then-NRC Chairman Greg Jaczko said that neither Uranium One nor the subsidiary of the Russian-government-owner Rosatom held the necessary export license to ship U.S. uranium out of the country. That assessment was repeated in the NRC’s recommendation to approve the Uranium One sale.

However, beginning in 2012, Uranium One was able to begin exporting uranium without an export license in a move called “piggy-backing,” where it was listed merely as a supplier on another company’s export license. However, that uranium that left the country was supposed to return for “future processing.”Not only did that uranium leave the U.S., but it was eventually exported out of Canada.

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BACKSTORY In September 2005, his crony billionaire Frank Giustra and Bill Clinton flew to Kazakhstan to meet the president then-running for reelection. Shortly thereafter, Giustra secured a lucrative concession to mine Kazakh uranium, despite his company’s lack of experience with the radioactive ore. As Bill Clinton opened doors for Giustra, the financier gave generously to Clinton’s foundation. This mutual back-scratching gave Clinton donor Giustra, and later Putin’s Russia, control of a significant portion of the world’s uranium supply...

This gambit by Bill Clinton (meddling in a foreign election) got the Russian uranium scheme going. Bill's calculated handshake was a bonanza for the Kazahk president's re-election. Nazarbayev responded in kind and signed-off on the initial phase of Russia's takeover of US uranium assets.

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev greets former
president Clinton (L) in Almaty on September 6, 2005.

CIRCA 2015 A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter claims that former President Bill Clinton falsely denied hosting a meeting with Kazakh officials when she tried to write a story that involved his foundation several years ago.

Jo Becker, who works on the newspaper's investigative desk, said Clinton only confirmed the meeting took place after she informed him there were photographs.

Clinton's role in a deal that involved Kazakhstan, the Russian government, and a man who donated millions to the president's charitable foundation were detailed in a story Becker published on Thursday.

That article revisited some of her earlier reporting and included information from the upcoming book "Clinton Cash," which is generating widespread headlines amid a flurry of reports suggesting it will raise serious questions about Clinton's family foundation.

The donor in question is Canadian mining executive Frank Giustra, a longtime friend of the former president who has given tens of millions to the Clinton Foundation in the past few years. (A couple of hours after the NYT story was published, Giustra issued a defiant statement. We've included that below.)

Becker initially wrote about the February 2007 meeting between Clinton, Giustra, and executives from the state-owned nuclear company Kazatomprom in 2008. The gathering took place at Clinton's home in Chappaqua, New York.

"When I first contacted both the Clinton foundation — Mr. Clinton's spokesman — and Mr. Giustra, they denied any such meeting ever took place," Becker recalled in footage aired by Fox News on Thursday.

However, Becker said Clinton and Giustra both changed their stories after she confronted them with evidence to the contrary.

"And then when we told them, 'Well we already talked to the head of Kazatomprom, who not only told us all about the meeting, but actually has a picture of him and Bill at the home in Chappaqua, and that he proudly displayed on his office wall.' They then acknowledged that yes, the meeting had taken place," Becker continued in the television interview.

The purpose of the meeting, then Kazatomprom President Moukhtar Dzhakishev told The Times, was to discuss Kazakhstan potentially buying a 10% stake in Westinghouse, a US nuclear company. Becker's 2008 story also noted one of Giustra's companies secured a deal to buy uranium deposits from Kazatomprom in 2005.

That agreement was made after Clinton accompanied Giustra on a trip to Kazakhstan. During the trip, Giustra and Clinton met with Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Clinton issued a public statement praising the Kazakh leader despite his questionable, antidemocratic record. The Times called the praise a "propaganda coup" for Nazarbayev. (he later "won relection" w/ an unbelievable 90% of the vote)

"Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton's charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month. The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra’s more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton’s inner circle," wrote Becker and another reporter, Don Van Natta.

A spokesperson for the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership told Business Insider they are "working on a formal statement" in response to a request for comment on Thursday. Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership is an initiative of the Clinton Foundation that was cofounded by Clinton and Giustra in 2007. A Clinton Foundation spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nyt-reporter-clinton-lied-about-meeting-2015-48/25

Mega donor to the Clintons, Frank Giustra, left, Hillary and Amb Pickering and wife.

Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton's charitable foundation received its own windfall: a a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret........ The $31.3 mill, combined with Mr. Giustra's more recent public pledge to the William J. Clinton Foundation of an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton's inner circle. Bill Clinton also flew on Giustra's private plane.

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Come on Frank.....$131 mill to Clinton's charity?

Nobody is THAT altruistic.

The Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership is a Canadian initiative of the Clinton Foundation that was co-founded by Clinton and the Canadian, Giustra, in 2007.

REALITY CHECK: As Secretary of State, Hillary influenced the Canadian-based international deal giving a Russian company 20% ownership of America's uranium production, in return for millions of dollars of cash donations to the Clinton Foundation.

Here is a list of questionable items forming a chain of events with Canadian principles:

1. September of 2005: Canadian Frank Giustra visits Kazakhstan with Bill Clinton. Days later, his company UrAsia wins a major uranium deal with the country.

2. 2006: Canadian Giustra donates $31 million to the Clinton Foundation.

3. February 2007: UrAsia merges with Uranium One and expands into the U.S.

4. June 2008: Russian atomic agency Rosatom begins talks to acquire Uranium One.

5. 2008 to 2010: Uranium One and UrAsia investors donate $8.65 million to Clinton Foundation.

6. June 2009: Rosatom acquires 17% of Uranium One.

7. 2010 to 2011: Millions more donated by Uranium One investors to Clinton Foundation.

8. June 2010: Rosatom requests Committee on Foreign Investment (of which the State Department is a member and its approval is needed) to approve a majority ownership in Uranium One, PROMISING NOT TO PURCHASE 100% of it, NOR TAKE IT PRIVATE.

9. June 2010: Bill Clinton receives $500,000 to speak at a conference in Moscow held by the Russian investment bank involved in the Rosatom transactions.

10. October 2010: Committee APPROVES Rosatom's request to ACQUIRE A MAJORITY SHARE in Uranium One.

11. January 2013: Rosatom PURCHASES REMAINDER of Uranium One and takes it PRIVATE!.

Meet Frank Giustra----a Canadian gold mining mogul. He
facilitated the takeover of US uranium assets with the Clintons.
This billionaire received $23 million of your tax dollars from Hillary's State Dept.

Canadian mining magnate Frank Giustra is one of the Clinton Foundation’s largest donors. Giustra's $100 million contributions go directly: (1) to the tax-exempt Clinton Foundation, and, (2) to the Canada-based "Clinton-Giustra Enterprise Partnership." The "Clinton-Giustra Enterprise Partnership" in turn sends money to the Clinton Foundation......(according to Canadian tax records researched by "Clinton Cash" author Schweizer).

DATA Sources: Clinton Foundation, CGEP (Canada); Canadian tax records; compiled by Alberto Cuadra and Rosalind Helderman May 3 at 8:11 PM

ARTICLE LINK http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wealthy-canadian-helps-fund-the-clinton-foundation/2015/05/03/f855ea22-f1ea-11e4-90bc-afe06f530791_graphic.html

She’s come a long way, baby

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