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Clinton's Ties to Burkle Include Funds in Offshore Tax Haven
Yahoo News ^ | December 17, 2007 | Timothy J. Burger and Ryan J. Donmoyer

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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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: burkle; caymanislands; clinton; corruption; elections; followthemoney; hillary; hillaryclinton; hillaryscandals; yucaipa
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To: khnyny
And coincidentally, didn't Chelsea Clinton get a peach of a first time job at a hedge fund at $110,000 a year when she graduated from college? Does she work for Buckle?

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???

41 posted on 12/17/2007 12:18:44 PM PST by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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To: Osage Orange

yes,all true, but once the beast is outta presidential power
alerts then the Clinton’s will meet their comeuppance


42 posted on 12/17/2007 12:20:27 PM PST by advertising guy (If computer skills namedo us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: xtinct
I believe she went to work for McKinsey & Co., a consulting firm. What she contributes to this management issues firm is a mystery to me...
43 posted on 12/17/2007 12:44:19 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: khnyny

OFF SHORE TAX EVASION!!! The DEMOCRATS in action again!! HYPOCRITES!!!


44 posted on 12/17/2007 1:08:45 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: george76

$1000...my arse!! Clintons do NOTHING for just $1000.00....NOTHING.


45 posted on 12/17/2007 1:11:20 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Haddit
This morning on FOX News. What are the major issues of today, Clintons response was The war on Iraq and free Medical. No mention from either side about illegal immigration.
And Mrs. Clinton says that even children she meets on the campaign trail are asking her about health care. Yeah, right.
46 posted on 12/17/2007 1:20:06 PM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Ann Archy

``over $1,000’’ a year

Bubba likely got over ten million per year


47 posted on 12/17/2007 1:34:32 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: xtinct

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/


48 posted on 12/17/2007 3:02:30 PM PST by khnyny (Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. Winston Churchill)
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To: Doogle

LOL. That’s very funny...I could almost “hear” the cackle.


49 posted on 12/17/2007 3:07:45 PM PST by khnyny (Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. Winston Churchill)
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To: khnyny
What a dawg !!!

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.

50 posted on 12/17/2007 3:17:31 PM PST by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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To: khnyny
LOL. That’s very funny...I could almost “hear” the cackle.

..sorry... :)

51 posted on 12/17/2007 3:20:19 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: khnyny
In the vein of the Queen of Mean... only "little" people pay taxes right Mr. Clinton/Mr. Burkle?
52 posted on 12/17/2007 3:24:39 PM PST by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: 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."

This would've brought down anyone seeking the POTUS, *instantly*, in saner times & under normal circumstances.

...therein lies what'll become of this.

53 posted on 12/17/2007 3:25:09 PM PST by Landru (Reality hits the faithful the hardest.)
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To: xtinct

“What a dawg !!!”
Ah, I dunno, the chubby cheeks match her father, Web Hubbell! (hubell? hubble?)


54 posted on 12/17/2007 3:26:43 PM PST by dynachrome (Immigration without assimilation means the death of this nation~Captainpaintball)
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To: xtinct

If my parent’s were the Clinton’s - I’d get drunk too.


55 posted on 12/17/2007 3:29:54 PM PST by khnyny (Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. Winston Churchill)
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To: Doogle

LOL.


56 posted on 12/17/2007 5:03:46 PM PST by Donna Lee Nardo (DEATH TO ISLAMIC TERRORISTS AND ANIMAL AND CHILD ABUSERS.)
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To: advertising guy
Capone was jailed.......these two will be found out.

The Feds wanted Capone bad.
On the other hand, they don't want any part of these yardbirds.

57 posted on 12/17/2007 7:05:50 PM PST by jokar (The Church age is the only time we will be able to Glorify God, http://www.gbible.org)
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To: Cicero

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.


58 posted on 12/17/2007 7:16:55 PM PST by dandiegirl
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To: Yaelle

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.


59 posted on 12/17/2007 8:11:12 PM PST by cousair
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To: khnyny
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.''

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?

60 posted on 12/17/2007 10:51:59 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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