Posted on 12/17/2007 10:33:03 AM PST by khnyny
Former President Bill Clinton's decision to reconsider a business relationship with California billionaire Ron Burkle reflects concern those financial dealings may embarrass his wife's presidential candidacy.
Securities and Exchange Commission documents and financial- disclosure forms filed by Hillary Clinton show that Bill Clinton, 61, has a financial stake in three investment entities registered in the Cayman Islands by Burkle's Yucaipa Cos. LLC.
In 2004, Hillary Clinton, a New York senator, said she wanted to ``close the loopholes'' for ``people who create a mailbox, or a drop, or send one person to sit on the beach in some island paradise and claim that it is their offshore headquarters.''
The former president's possible decision to move away from Burkle ``is all tied up with the laws of appearance and the politics of perception,'' said Linda Fowler, professor of government at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. ``The world being what it is, people are attracted to the spouse of somebody with political power. The level of potential conflict is just that much higher with a former president and a senator who would be president.''
Moreover, added Fowler, ``with this particular couple, somehow, the whole story doesn't come out except in dribs and drabs.''
Bloomberg News last month submitted a list of questions to the Clinton campaign regarding the former president's involvement in the three Caymans-based funds. The campaign didn't respond to the queries until Dec. 13, after the New York Times reported that Clinton plans to dissolve his five-year partnership with Burkle, a longtime friend and important fund- raiser for both Clintons.
`An Appropriate Transition'
Jay Carson, a Clinton spokesman, said that while the former president hasn't ``severed ties'' with Yucaipa, he ``is taking steps to ensure'' that ``there will be an appropriate transition for those relationships'' if his wife receives...
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Also, Cayman accounts would be the perfect place for the Clintons to deposit excess campaign funds from NY and presidential races.
Did Hillary ever return the White House trinkets???
yes,all true, but once the beast is outta presidential power
alerts then the Clinton’s will meet their comeuppance
OFF SHORE TAX EVASION!!! The DEMOCRATS in action again!! HYPOCRITES!!!
$1000...my arse!! Clintons do NOTHING for just $1000.00....NOTHING.
``over $1,000 a year
Bubba likely got over ten million per year
Yes, Chelsea works for a hedge fund, Avenue Capital Group. Chelsea started at the firm about one year ago.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15549672/
LOL. That’s very funny...I could almost “hear” the cackle.
Notice how no news about Chelsea ever includes her stint at Oxford --> probably because the Clintons don't want the Daily Mirror shots of Chelsea laying in the gutter dead drunk to surface again.
..sorry... :)
This would've brought down anyone seeking the POTUS, *instantly*, in saner times & under normal circumstances.
...therein lies what'll become of this.
“What a dawg !!!”
Ah, I dunno, the chubby cheeks match her father, Web Hubbell! (hubell? hubble?)
If my parent’s were the Clinton’s - I’d get drunk too.
LOL.
The Feds wanted Capone bad.
On the other hand, they don't want any part of these yardbirds.
I don’t see how these criminals live with themselves. They are just evil and corrupt beyond everything. I’m hoping that they both finally end up in jail like former Louisiana gov Edwin Edwards. He rolled along for a long time, but it fianlly ended.
If you want the Clinton background, go to Youtube...dial in the Clinton Chronicles, down to the entire film, and watch. It will knock your socks off at how truly evil both of these two are. They were totally connected into MEna, Ar., and the drugs that came in there during their years there and in the White House. The film is totally documented. Most people have no idea what these two are all about...and it is power and the circle that protects them from being found out. She must not be put back into the WH.
If you want to know what the Rapist and the Rapist's wife are guilty of, just listen to what they condemn. In this case, the Rapist's wife is confessing that "I have created a mailbox, a drop, and sent someone to sit on the beach in some island paradise to claim that it's my offshore headquarters."
The only thing I'm puzzled about is that the Rapist and the Rapist's wife have never declared: "We need to crack down on those people who get rid of 'problem people' by staging 'suicides.'" Or did I just miss that statement?
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