Posted on 01/21/2008 10:33:00 PM PST by HAL9000
Former President Clinton stands to reap around $20 million -- and will sever a politically sensitive partnership tie to Dubai -- by ending his high-profile business relationship with the investment firm of billionaire friend Ron Burkle.Mr. Clinton is negotiating to end his relationship with Mr. Burkle's Yucaipa Cos. as part of a broader effort to protect the presidential campaign of his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, from potential conflicts of interest. Details of Mr. Clinton's involvement in Yucaipa and his efforts to unwind it come from documents and interviews with people familiar with the matter.
The former president has had links to Yucaipa since early 2002, when Mr. Burkle -- a longtime friend and political contributor -- offered him a role there. Mr. Clinton's association with the firm began at a time when he was looking to earn large amounts of money, partly to pay heavy legal bills accumulated to defend himself and Mrs. Clinton from several investigations during his presidency.
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Duh - sorry, wrong thread. Please disregard that last message.
Clinton’s job at Yupaica was basically to do nothing, just like his job at InfoUSA.
There bees standurds, then double standurds, then no danged standurds nohow!!!
(by the way, I'm back in the Republican Party again, and again, now that all the genuine conservatives are out of the race, I'm wondering why I rejoined just to be able to vote in this stupid Primary!!!)
What a crock of curds and especially... WHEY!!! (spit!)(wait! I'm so pist I cain't spit!!!)
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Thanks for the link with the Burkle info.
Well, ya can vote against Rudy Schwarzenegger! And don’t forget that 4th district race comin’ up!
Or, you could also unregister. The deadline is midnight, tonight.
I just called elections dept. and my Repellican Ballot was mailed on the 17th, so I'm good... (I guess)
See also here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=burkle
Since Burkle was also a big contributor to aRINOld SchwarzenKennedy, some have followed him pretty closely.
Payola is more like it for these two greedy deadbeats. The Clintons are masters of the disguised bribe. There.Fixed it fur ya.
I wish I could work the system they way she and billy does. Dang, I could really feather my nest if I could .
You and me both.
I was wondering why he even bothers with this. Just break every law, ignore ethics, scream vast right wing conspiracy and repeat ad infinatum. With an evil drive-by media in your back pocket...
and a constituency of lunatics like Code Pink, media matters, ACLU, DU, MoveOn, etc. etc. etc.
And a base of psychotic Godless regressive secular socialist moonbats...
what’s he worried about?
AAAAAAAAArggghhhhh! I’ll never get to sleep now!
She probably has the same secret service rental agreement herself, if not for being a former first lady, for being a presidential candidate. Hell she probably has TWO teams of secret service and charges double the rent to the taxpayers!
Who knows. She may.
Off topic...
Did you see her standing next to Obama the other night? She looked like a munchkin. She was about as presidential as an old oil rag on the garage floor.
Good observation.
That’s exactly my view—we won’t get away from them until they’re both dead.
Maybe not good, LOL, but accurate. You take care.
I stand corrected! LOL
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