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To: Miami Rebel

I remember when the Clintons sold a uranium company to Russia


2 posted on 05/19/2024 8:09:59 AM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: Captainpaintball

The uranium never left the US.


5 posted on 05/19/2024 8:44:28 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
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To: Captainpaintball; Miami Rebel
I remember when the Clintons sold a uranium company to Russia

The short version of this story. In 2005, A Canadian businessman named Frank Guistra owned a company called UrAsia, which bought some very nice Uranium production JVs in up-and-coming producer Kazakhstan. Some suspect that Bill Clinton, who "just happened" to be in Almaty at the same time, was involved. What followed closely thereafter was an initial $32 million donation to the Clinton Foundation from Guistra, who had, up to then, met Clinton exactly one time - on a plane traveling to Kazakhstan.

In 2007, during the previous Uranium boom, UrAsia was taken over by Uranium One, another Canadian company, which had interests in USA uranium mines. After the merger/sale, Guistra supposedly severed his ties with Uranium One management and also pledged a further $100 million to the Clinton Foundation as part of a "Clinton-Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative (CGSGI)" which other billionaires, like Carlos Slim of Mexico also contributed large $$ amounts to. In 2009, Russia's state-controlled business, ROSATOM, started to buy shares in Uranium One. By 2010, ROSATOM announced they would take a 51% ownership share of Uranium One. Because this involved US "strategic assets," this sale needed approval by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, an intra-governmental agency that includes input from the Departments of State, Treasury, Justice, Energy, Defense, Commerce and Homeland Security, as well as the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. The Chair of the Committee was Sec. of State - Hillary Clinton.

By 2013, ROSATOM purchased full control of Uranium One. It should be noted that ROSATOM had absolutely NO interest in the USA assets of the company, which were sold off, or shut-down. What it really wanted was the two large joint-ventures in Kazahkstan. A very strategic acquisition for Russia which is still playing out today.

Guistra and Ian Telfer (CEO of Uranium One) total donations to the Clinton Foundation eventually totaled $145 million.

10 posted on 05/19/2024 10:15:33 AM PDT by PGR88
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