Hillary refuses to declare or return money to foreign donor Tendo Oto (hear the song)

hillcap.org, Peter Paul ^ | 4-2007 | dfu

[doug from upland]

HOW THE CLINTONS COLLAPSED STAN LEE MEDIA — http://youtube.com/watch?v=LUWlxc7h5AI

[khnyny]

The following story should be of interest, (disgusting, but of interest):

All The Ex-President’s Money

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas022607.php3

Excerpts:

Former President Bill Clinton is one of a kind, but we knew that already. No president before him has managed to cash in from his time in office with such shameless abandon. A Washington Post story by John Solomon and Matthew Mosk is staggering in its revelations of Clinton's greed. In the six years since he left the presidency, Clinton has taken in nearly $40 million — between nine and 10 million of it last year. Clinton averaged "almost a speech a day" in 2006. Twenty percent of his fees reportedly "were for personal income." The rest of his speeches, says the Post, were for no fee or for donations to Clinton's foundation.

The Clintons are plowing new ground. Ethics and election laws should keep pace. Never before has the spouse of a former president run for president. One of the reasons for disclosure forms is to ensure no improper influences are exerted on public officials by outside groups, or governments. Among those for whom Clinton spoke were a Saudi Arabia investment firm ($600,000 for two speeches), a Chinese real estate firm, run by a Communist Party official ($200,000), and a Toronto company, founded by a Kenyan immigrant who was convicted of stock fraud and barred for life from the brokerage business ($650,000 in 2005 and an undisclosed sum last year). The public needs to know more about their backgrounds.

While other ex-presidents have spoken for money, there has been nothing on this scale and none of their spouses served as elected officials.

If the new Democratic congressional leadership is serious about living up to its pledge of a far more ethical body than the one run by Republicans, the Senate Ethics Committee will get on this right away. There ought to be an investigation into the associations and ties of especially foreign governments and interests who paid these big bucks to Bill Clinton.