Posted on 04/23/2015 12:59:42 AM PDT by grundle
Hillary Clintons State Department was part of a panel that approved the sale of one of Americas largest uranium mines at the same time a foundation controlled by the sellers chairman was making donations to a Clinton family charity, records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show.
The $610 million sale of 51% of Uranium One to a unit of Rosatom, Russias state nuclear agency, was approved in 2010 by a U.S. federal committee that assesses the security implications of foreign investments. The State Department, which Mrs. Clinton then ran, is one of its members.
Between 2008 and 2012, the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative, a project of the Clinton Foundation, received $2.35 million from the Fernwood Foundation, a family charity run by Ian Telfer, chairman of Uranium One before its sale, according to Canada Revenue Agency records.
The Fernwood contributions dont appear on the Clinton Foundation website, as was required under an agreement between the foundation and the Obama administration.
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That's strangely comforting...
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