Posted on 01/30/2008 6:55:36 PM PST by mware
Edited on 01/31/2008 7:24:07 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
By the time this is brought up on the campaign trail, it will be “old news”. Preemptive strike.
Maybe the NYT has been biding time in order to pay back the Clintons for what they did to Monica. Isn’t she related to someone high up the chain there????? (her mom is married to ????)
Carrying water for those idiots has cost them billions over the years. I’d say they are.
They’ll be back to us ‘moderates’ on the right saying, “Look we dumped the Clintons, love us again.”
It’s about the same thing as a man looking for a compliment because he stopped beating his wife.
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=4234
Frank Giustra began his career in the investment industry in 1978 with Merrill Lynch. In 1980, he joined Yorkton Securities and was responsible for opening the firm’s offices in London, Zurich, and Paris, establishing the Natural Resource Group.
As President and later Chairman and CEO of Yorkton Securities in the 1990’s, he spearheaded equity investments of more than $3 billion in the international resource sector.
Subsequently, in 1997 he founded and was CEO and Chairman of Lions Gate Entertainment, now one of the world’s largest independent film companies.
Recognizing the growing need for merchant banking services in the mining and minerals industries, Mr. Giustra joined Endeavour Financial as Chairman in 2001. His vision and leadership led to the launch of numerous successful resource companies, including Goldcorp Inc. and UrAsia Energy Ltd. Since 2002 Endeavour has raised for its clients US$4.3 billion in Debt and Equity and advised on US$13.5 billion of mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Giustra is a member of the Board of Trustees of the William J. Clinton Foundation and a director of the Radcliffe Foundation.
also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Giustra
Ping of interest
It could be a puff piece showing how the Clinton care for the poor, etc. but the comment from post #19 sent up red flags for me.
I pinged Doug, maybe he can make some sense out of all this or connect the dots.
Yellow cake broker between Niger and Iraq, perhaps? I smell sweet mint tea.....
from the Wiki link:
Giustra and is now chair of Endeavour Financial, a merchant banking firm which finances mining companies.
He became close with former US President Bill Clinton during fundraising efforts for tsunami relief in 2004. Giustra is a member of the board of trustees of the Clinton Foundation. Guistra provided his corporate jet for Clinton’s fundraising campaign in Africa. The two play the card game Oh Hell during flights.
Vancouver Magazine ranked Giustra as number 43 in its Power 50 list of the most powerful people in Vancouver.[4]
In May 2007 Giustra was one of four chairs of the 2006 Global Leadership Awards dinner in New York where Clinton was honoured along with out-going UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
In June 2007, Giustra joined with Clinton to launch the Clinton-Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative to address global poverty. Giustra committed $USD 100 million plus half of what he makes in the resource industry for the rest of his life. Carlos Slim Helú, the Mexican businessman and richest person in the world, made a matching contribution and Giustra is expected to enlist others in the Canadian resource industry.
Giustra cited Andrew Carnegie as an influence in his philanthropy but credited his wife, Alison Lawton, a dot-com millionaire turned human rights activist and producer of documentary films on humanitarian crises, with inspiring him about sustainable growth.[5].
Giustra is also a director of the International Crisis Group, an international, non-profit, non-governmental organization whose mission is to prevent and resolve deadly conflicts through high-level advocacy.
Is Uncle Floyd still on?
I bet she has.
The New York Times, which has discovered the identity of 97 donors who together gave or pledged $69 million early on, reports some of the million-dollar donors sought changes in policies and two of them were under Justice Department probes.
With the presidential election approaching, Clinton Foundation donations skyrocketed last year to $135 million, 70% more than the year before, with two-thirds of the booty from only 11 donors.
So much for Bill and Hil's populist image.
The former president steadfastly refused to reveal the donors' identities — including one super-rich donor giving $31.3 million.
If this guy keeps hanging around Bill Clinton, eventually Clinton will be found to have corrupted the morals of a miner.
The New York Times, which has discovered the identity of 97 donors who together gave or pledged $69 million early on, reports some of the million-dollar donors sought changes in policies and two of them were under Justice Department probes.
With the presidential election approaching, Clinton Foundation donations skyrocketed last year to $135 million, 70% more than the year before, with two-thirds of the booty from only 11 donors.
So much for Bill and Hil’s populist image.
The former president steadfastly refused to reveal the donors’ identities — including one super-rich donor giving $31.3 million.
We can certainly now see why. The $31-million-dollar man turned out to be Canadian mining mogul and founder of Lionsgate Entertainment (distributor of Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11”) Frank Giustra, who plans to give another $100 million, plus half his future earnings.
Foreign contributions to presidential campaigns are illegal, but foreigners such as Giustra can anonymously give as much as they like to presidential foundations. So can the Saudi royal family, the king of Morocco, a United Arab Emirates foundation, and the governments of Kuwait and Qatar, all of whom reportedly gave undisclosed amounts to the Clinton Foundation.
That should make for interesting Mideast policy under Hillary.
We might just have a scandal brewing.
Wouldn’t you just love being able to identify all the offshore accounts the Grifters have funneled their quid pro quo?
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A lot of Saudi names are on it...it could really wound Hillary's campaign.
We can certainly now see why. The $31-million-dollar man turned out to be Canadian mining mogul and founder of Lionsgate Entertainment (distributor of Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11”) Frank Giustra, who plans to give another $100 million, plus half his future earnings.
If they find that some of this money went to Hillary's campaign, they have violated Campaign Funding Laws. This guy is a foreigner.
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