More dirt on the very dirty. Scandals and back alley politics are the Clinton mantra.
Posted on 04/05/2008 9:58:47 PM PDT by kcvl
glaringly missing from the summary was mention of $15 million in fees paid by Burkle's Yucaipa Global Opportunities Fund since 2002
(Excerpt) Read more at weblogs.baltimoresun.com ...
More dirt on the very dirty. Scandals and back alley politics are the Clinton mantra.
Does Yucaipa have anything to do with “Yucaipa Heep” from Firesign Theater ? ... or is it just innocently named after Yucaipa, CA ?
BTW, how about this: “Burkle and Yucaipa are backing a $100 million deal to take over the Aloha Airlines — but it has attached some very tight strings: It’s making the deal contingent upon terminating the pilots’ pension plan and contract.”
“In the future, so much will be happening that no one will be able to keep track of it all.”
Wah-da-do-dah.
The comments on this blog (at the link) were depressing. The author asked a question: what did Bubba do to obtain $15M from Burkle?
All the ‘Toonbots could say is “poor Hillary; why does everything think they’re always doing something wrong?”
Uh . . .
Besides, what DID Bubba do to obtain $15M from Burkle? Was this money reported as earned income or what?
Yet, read the comments left by Witch supporters at the blog. They believe this is all nothing but trumped up “hatin’.”
They’ll never accept that the ‘Toons actually are sleaze and crooks.
The Clintons have moved up from being small time Arkansas hucksters to world class grifters. However, I expect a very messy divorce once Hillary loses the nomination.
And the reason the Clintons got away with this is...
They are simply doing what other politicians are and have been doing for a long time.
Forcing the tax load down the chain.
Thanks for the info kcvl,here’s a bump.
And, let's not forget the old horn-dog will have nothing to do but this, on the taxpayer's dime, if Hillary is elected!
reports that the White House receptionist was in a sexual tryst with President Clinton, according to Mike McGrath, the White House Butler.
Debra Schiff got her current job as official White House receptionist. Previously, she was an airline stewardess and was assigned to the future President’s campaign flights. She often allowed the President to feel her up while on the plane.
In one incident, another stewardess, Cristy Zercher, allowed the President to grope her for 40 minutes, until a jealous Debra intervened and told the President to go back to his seat.
A flight attendant on Longhorn One, the Clinton campaign plane in 1992. When Clinton took office, the former commercial airline stewardess was appointed the West Wing receptionist, with a desk only a few yards away from the Oval Office. Despite having no training in the languages or protocol required for the job, she was told by a senior Clinton aide that she was hired for her "airborne people skills."
Film footage of Clinton onboard the plane with his hand onboard her knee attest to this. The White House's former chief steward said she locked him in his pantry in 1994 so she could have 20 minutes alone with the president. She denies the allegations.
Result: When the allegations surfaced, the White House announced that Schiff had been transferred to the State Department as assistant chief of protocol under Madeleine Albright (nice pay raise, too).
Debra Schiff
Debra has more than 20 years of event management and protocol experience. Most recently, she served as president of her own event consulting firm, Debra Schiff & Company.
Debra was Assistant Chief of Protocol in the Clinton-Gore Administration coordinating high profile functions for the President, Vice President and Secretary of State.
Prior to her Presidential appointment at the Department of State, she was a member of Oval Office Operations at the White House.
Before moving to our nation's capital, Debra owned an advertising specialty company based in Dallas, Texas.
Clients include:
William Jefferson Clinton Presidental Center
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for President-Club 44 Festival, Women for Hillary & Holidays with Hillary
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ABC Entertainment
Benarroch Production-Lions for Lambs
Center for American Progress
Christie’s Great Estates
Ed & Amy Knight-Richardson for President
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems
Georgetown University Children’s Medical Center
Goldman Sachs
Inter-American Development Bank
International AIDS Trust
Kelly & Sharon Stone
National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
Motion Picture Association of America
Microsoft Corporation
National Geographic Society
National Multiple Sclerosis Society-National Capital Chapter -MS Ambassador’s Ball
Organization of African First Ladies Against AIDS
Paramount Classics
Post Properties
Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation
Rodale Inc.
Seeds of Peace
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for President-Club 44 Festival, Women for Hillary & Holidays with Hillary
Senator Lloyd Bentsen Center for Stroke Research
Square Loop, Inc.
Target
The Albright Group LLC
The Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies
US Ambassador to the Orginization of American States
Washington Tennis & Education Foundation
William Jefferson Clinton Presidental Center
Wine, Women & Shoes
World Vision
WMCA of the USA
Debra Schiff, then
Debra Schiff, now
WHO IS RONBURKLE ? - PENGUINS INVESTOR STEPS OUT OF SHADOWS
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA) - January 7, 2007
Author: Shelly Anderson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Until recently, if you asked someone who follows the Penguins to identify RonBurkle , they might have guessed he once was one of Mario Lemieux’s linemates or, perhaps, a third-string goaltender.
Not quite.
A scan of the team’s media guide and Web site won’t turn up any reference to Burkle , but you’ll need a few cups of coffee to sift through the results of an Internet search.
After remaining far in the Penguins’ background for more than seven years, the member of the Lemieux Group — likely the largest investor in the team ownership — suddenly has emerged as a part of negotiations that will determine the future of the club.
According to statements issued by the Penguins, Burkle , a California multibillionaire best known for supermarkets, last week joined Lemieux in talks with Kansas City and state and local officials as the club tries to work out a deal for a new home, either in a new Pittsburgh arena or out of town.
Although he rarely grants interviews and has been described as reclusive, Burkle , 54, is well-connected. His friends range from the famous — former President Bill Clinton , pop star Michael Jackson, actor Leonardo DiCaprio — to many average Joes.
“If you saw him walking down the street, you would never know he’s a billionaire,” said Rick Icaza, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers local in California who, in a rare friendly partnering of union and management, amicably worked out contracts with Burkle when Burkle owned the Ralphs and Food4Less grocery store chains on the West Coast.
Burkle is part of a group, which also includes Philip Anschutz, that is trying to get a stadium built and bring the NFL back to Los Angeles.
Anschutz Entertainment Company (AEG) — whose president, Tim Leiweke, owns the Los Angeles Kings and sits on the NHL board of governors — has the contract to operate the Sprint Center in Kansas City, where officials would like to lure an NHL team, perhaps the Penguins.
Burkle is a longtime friend of Lemieux’s.
Icaza, the union boss, doesn’t follow the plight of the Penguins closely, but he said it’s in the team’s favor that Burkle has become more hands-on in negotiations.
“If he has control, I guarantee he’s going to be reasonable,” Icaza said.
“It’s almost impossible to ask a labor representative about a billionaire owner and get something favorable, but that’s what you get with me. He actually negotiated contracts with us himself, which is almost unheard of for a CEO, and those were our best agreements.”
Icaza said that while Burkle is most comfortable in jeans and other casual attire and that seeing him in a tie “makes you think something is up,” he did get to see the opulent lifestyle Burkle enjoys.
“We actually went to his house in Beverly Hills during negotiations,” Icaza said. “The table we sat at was probably more expensive than the house I live in, but like I said, you would never know it from him.”
Burkle isn’t just friends with Clinton ; the famous politician stayed at Burkle ‘s home on most of his visits to California dating to his days as president.
Burkle owns a private jet, a custom Boeing 757 that Clinton reportedly calls “ Ron Air.”
Burkle is a college dropout who parlayed some early stock-market success into a grocery-store empire and has branched out from there.
For someone who deflects attention, Burkle gets plenty, whether it’s for his contentious divorce, his supermodel friends, reports of parties at his 50,000-square foot mansion called Greenacres, or his legal battle with New York Post gossip columnist Jared Paul Stern, who allegedly tried to extort $220,000 from Burkle for more favorable coverage.
Forbes lists Burkle among the 400 richest Americans with a net worth of $2.5 billion.
As a teenager, Burkle started working at grocery store his father managed, Stater Bros. He worked his way up to vice president of parent company Petrolane, then, at 28, got the backing of one of Warren Buffet’s associates to try to make a leveraged buyout of Stater Bros.
He was rebuffed and fired later that day.
“I thought [that morning], ‘I started here as a box boy. I just bought the company. America’s a great place,’” Burkle told Forbes Magazine for a recent cover story. “And in the afternoon, I’m unemployed. It was a rather dramatic change of events, and it turned out to be the best thing ever because if I had stayed there I never would have thought about being entrepreneurial.”
Burkle founded Yucaipa Companies, an investment firm, in 1986 and began acquiring companies, mostly grocers, and grew them by placing stores in ethnic areas other owners ignored and by being worker-friendly. He still owns Pathway, based on the east coast, but sold the Dominick’s chain to Safeway in 1998 for more than $200 million in profits, and sold four other lines to Kroger for $13.5 billion.
Burkle isn’t just interested in supermarkets and sports franchises.
He has donated millions to politicians, mostly Democrats.
He has tried to buy the Tribune Company, which owns the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune newspapers.
He is an investor with the apparel company of hip-hop producer Sean “Diddy” Combs.
He’s an art collector.
He’s a philanthropist, giving millions to Ronald McDonald House, DARE and other charities, and co-chairing the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA.
After the Rodney King riots of 1992, Burkle joined the board of Rebuild L.A., but didn’t want credit.
“He said, ‘I’ll do anything I can to help, but I don’t want any publicity,’ “ former Los Angeles deputy mayor Linda Greigo, who ran the organization, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Publicity finds Burkle anyway. Yet he has remained behind the scenes with the Penguins, until now.
His security team, said one of Mr. Burkle’s associates, includes a former Secret Service agent.
Such well-known investors as George Soros have backed his business deals
He came under the news media microscope in late 2000 for soliciting Mr. Clinton about a possible pardon for Michael Milken, the former junk-bond king and convicted felon
Mr. Burkle, who sits on the boards of the Occidental Petroleum Corporation and Yahoo
Bill Clinton has made millions of dollars just for being friends with Ron Burkle. Back in 2001, Burkle, the supermarket magnate who secretly owns Radar, likes to fly around with models and other young women on his private jet, a pastime Bill has also enjoyed.
it was reported all over the place that Bill was no longer doing business with Burkle. But, as the New York Sun explains, he actually hasn’t stopped a damn thing.
http://gawker.com/359797/burkle-still-bills-best-bud
Bill Clinton And Gina Gershon
We don’t really believe Hollywood’s autumn rumor that the former president, notorious for receiving oral sex in the Oval Office, had entertained an actress on Ron Burkle’s plane. (That was probably just an amalgam of Clinton’s supposed affair with raunchy actress, Gina Gershon, and earlier pictures of the ex-president with girls on the Burklejet.)
http://gawker.com/5002487/bill-clinton-and-gina-gershon
You might wonder why that 2006 Forbes piece about supermarket king Ron Burkle was so gobsmackingly complimentary when the man himself isn’t known to be all that nice. Here’s why! “Burkle’s spin doctor Mike Sitrick worked out a deal for them to go easy in exchange for the otherwise reclusive billionaire speaking at Forbes’ 2nd annual MEET Conference last month..”
http://gawker.com/news/ron-burkle/
Page Six’s latest revenge on their emasculator, mogul and probably Radar-investor Ron Burkle: revealing that he’s been letting Michael Jackson stay at his house. [Page Six]
Slate’s Mickey Kaus thinks that supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle’s scheme to Source Interlink (he is the majority shareholder, and by the way, that stock is so deep in the toilet) with American Media Inc. gives the Clintons control of that company’s tabloids.
Poor supermarket mogul, Clinton pal and alleged Radar investor Ron Burkle can’t go anywhere without getting extorted. Today’s Page Six and Rush & Molloy both report that Chevyn McClintock, an antiques dealer or interior decorator depending on who you ask, is shopping a memoir about her two-year affair with Burkle.
http://gawker.com/news/ron-burkle/
The Daily News reports that Grappi met Burkle when she decorated his Beverly Hills residence. McClintock’s website mentions the “historic Greenacres estate” among the “notable interior environments” she’s been responsible for
Kate Hudson was once again spotted candying up the arm of fug supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle. [R&M, fourth item]
The Clinton Mafia cannot be too pleased by today’s piece in the Wall Street Journal, which follows the money from Bill Clinton to his aide Doug Band to Raffaello Follieri, who is a Vatican hanger-on and the man-squire to Anne Hathaway.
Introduced to the Clintons through Band, pretty Follieri seems to have somehow convinced them he could deliver Catholic votes in 2008, based on his long-standing connections to the Vatic—whoops. No. Oh, okay, maybe it was family’s upstanding business reputation in Italy—never mind, we don’t know how he pulled it off either.
President Clinton got suckered to the tune of $100 million, though, which he and his galpal Ron Burkle invested in Follieri’s scheme to redevelop Catholic properties so the Church could take care of some minor financial issues. All in the hopes that next year, all those compensated Catholic voters would turn out in droves for Hillary.
Unfortunately, Follieri decided to spend the cash on $40,000-a-month penthouses for himself and Hathaway.
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What's ARDEN??? WHo is behind them?
Actually, Ken Lay was MUCH closer to Clinton than he was to Bush. He stayed in Clintons White House.
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