Is The Clinton Foundation Just An International Money Laundering Scheme?

The Federalist ^ | 04/29/2015 | Sean Davis

[SeekAndFind]

BloombergPolitics reported this morning that the Clinton Foundation refused to disclose the identities of at least 1,100 donors, most of whom are not U.S. citizens, to a Clinton Foundation affiliate. The donations were routed through the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (Canada), or CGEPartnership, a Canadian charitable organization. That organization then effectively bundled the foreign donations and sent them along to the Clinton Foundation itself, and it did all of this without ever disclosing the individual foreign sources of the income.

If that sounds to you like more of a laundering operation than a charitable organization, that’s because it certainly looks like more of a laundering operation than a charitable organization. In this case, however, rather than taking cash from blatantly illegal activities (as far as we know) and then cleaning it up by running it through legitimate businesses before it ends up at its final destination, the Clinton Foundation mops up cash from wealthy foreigners, bundles it within a larger organization to hide the money’s original source, and then funnels the cash from that legitimate charity right into the Clinton Foundation coffers.

After the New York Times uncovered the connections between uranium mining magnate Frank Giustra, his Canadian charitable organization, the Clinton Foundation, and official actions taken by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that benefitted Giustra’s global uranium mining operations, the Clinton Foundation immediately entered spin mode.

According to Clinton Foundation executives, CGEPartnership was banned by federal law in Canada from releasing any donor names without the prior consent of the donor. However, an extensive analysis of Canada’s federal privacy laws by The Federalist found that the Clinton Foundation’s claim had zero merit.

[LibertarianLiz]

Is The Clinton Foundation Just An International Money Laundering Scheme?

Yes, next question.

[Darksheare]

Yes.

[DoughtyOne]

Yes.

[TexasCajun]

[Olog-hai]

The way they operate, how could the answer ever be “no”?

[gov_bean_ counter]

Yep.

[DiogenesLamp]

Is The Clinton Foundation Just An International Money Laundering Scheme?

Are the Clintons Democrats?

[arthurus]

Curious that it is phrased as a question.

[polymuser]

What is the tagline for anything Democrat or Clinton?

Follow the money.

[rey]

They keep even more than that. Estimates are less than 6% actually goes to any cause. The next highest percentage, and numbers vary greatly, pays the 20 employees, who are mostly friends and family (daughter and son in law). Chelsea already has a net worth in excess of 15 million. The CLinton’s, outside of this foundation, are worth nearly 60.

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

Perhaps that dictator fella in N Korea would hire her as secretary of scum.

[SpaceBar]

The article title should be a statement in the affirmative, not posed as a question. It’s like gosh, ya think?

[Swede Girl]

If it looks like a duck........

[kingu]

Nothing like a southern Democrat when it comes to corruption. Next question?

[Liz]

.....the Clinton Foundation refused to disclose the identities of at least 1,100 donors mostly non-US citizens, to a Clinton Foundation affiliate; donations were routed through the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (Canada), or thru Giustra's CGEPartnership, billed as a Canadian charitable organization. That organization then bundled the foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation, which failed to disclose the foreign sources of income......

ALL WE NEED TO KNOW: (1) The Clinton Foundation's vaunted do-goodism (2) aided and abetted by Bill Clinton's obsessive globe- trotting, (3) lucrative deals signed off by Secy of State Hillary, (4) falsified tax returns.

YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS, FREEPERS a billion dollar organization called Enron made all sorts of accounting and tax mistakes----its accounting firm collapsed. Enron's CFO went to jail b/c of numerous shady entities he established offshore. The CFO's wife also went to jail for signing falsified tax returns.

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JUST ONE NOTORIOUS EXAMPLE---The Clinton Foundation got Millions from a Russian who trades with Iran: Victor Pinchuk owns the EastOne Group investing company and the Interpipe Group. He is the second richest man in Ukraine AND the largest individual donor to the Clinton Foundation......the Foundation spinoff "The Clinton Global Initiative" received millions from Pinchuk while Hillary was Secy of State.

New Yorker magazine confirms Bill Clinton pocketed $500,000 for a speech in Moscow that was paid for by “a Russian investment bank" that had ties to the Kremlin” at the time of the lucrative Uranium One deal.

<><> Was Uranium One corporate money ever deposited offshore?

<><> In Russian banks? Maybe Sberbank or Vnesheconombank?

<><> Maybe funneled from there to secret numbered accounts in Zurich and Geneva?

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<><> Maybe deposits in secret accounts held by Obama?

We peons are asked to believe that Obama was on the golf course when foreign policy decisions were being made......looking like he "didn't know" about all these radical changes in foreign policy.

Heck, it wasn't b/c Valerie "forgot" to tell him.

<><> Maybe the deal was Obama pleading abject ignorance about US foreign policy being jerked around by the Clintons.......as long as he got his cut of the Clintons' foreign policy finagling?

[agere_contra]

It's not just a laundering operation. The Foundation uses money laundering but that's not what its about. There have to be cheaper ways to launder money than giving 94% of it to the Clintons!

The Clinton Foundation is a pay-to-play one-stop-shop for political corruption that comes with a built-in media shield.

[Liz]

.....rather than taking cash from blatantly illegal activities (THAT WE KNOW OF ) and then cleaning it through legitimate businesses, the cunning Clinton Foundation (1) mops up cash from wealthy foreigners, (2) bundles it within a larger organization to hide the money’s original source, and then (3) funnels the cash from that legitimate charity into the Clinton Foundation coffers.....

The Clinton spin on the explosive Schweizer book is that there's not a "shred of evidence" of criminal wrongdoing, or as ABC's George Stephanopoulos helpfully repeated over the weekend, "There's no smoking gun."

The party-line is that "it’s extremely difficult to identify a direct quid pro quo"....b/c while Hillary was Secy of State, foreign funny money was moving around from hand to hand with big money deals approved which she could say were going to be approved anyway......at the same time, foreign money was flowing into the charitable Clinton Foundation, not Hillary’s bank account.....

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LOOKING THROUGH THE WRONG END OF THE TELESCOPE The Buckraking Clinton Foundation sucking up foreign donations is morally reprehensible----but the real crimes are what exactly they are doing with the corporate/foreign monies once its in their Foundation's tax-exempt coffers.

So how'd they do that? Remember, Wall Street makes money disappear faster than a cream puff at a Weight Watchers weigh-in.

EXHIBIT ONE--- Dec 05, 2011---Fox News Report: Bill Clinton Reaped Big Bucks from Corzine Firm Before Collapse--- MF Global Employee Links Clinton to the Bankrupt Firm

A former MF Global employee accused former president Bill Clinton of collecting $50,000 per month through his Teneo advisory firm in the months before the brokerage careened towards its Halloween filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, reports Human Events.

Teneo was hired by MF Global’s former CEO Jon S. Corzine to improve his image and to enhance his connections with Clinton’s political family, said the employee, who asked that his name be withheld because he feared retribution, according to Hum/Events. Teneo is a dual-track company with one side devoted to merchant and investment banking and the other side set up to provide image and strategy consulting services. Clinton is the chairman of the company’s advisory board, reports Hum/Events.

SOURCE http://nation.foxnews.com/mf-global/2011/12/05/report-bill-clinton-reaped-big-bucks-corzine-firm- collapse#ixzz1fhH3pHHH

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EXHIBIT TWO--Then-Secy of State Hillary gave her close aide, Huma Abedin, “State Dept special status".....Abedin was working for Hillary at State....... AND simultaneously working for Bill Clinton, as a private contractor for his company, Teneo Holdings.

Abedin, reportedly had private email addresses on the Clinton email server system (underlining Democrats' greatest fear: the intersection of undisclosed foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton’s secret email address. Huma Abedin's sweetheart deal: (1) an outside private six-figure consultant at the State Department, and, (2) “special government employee” status, and worked a sideline---as a private contractor.

One of Huma's clients was Bill Clinton's Company----Teneo Holdings----self-described as a dual-track political/banking consulting firm that calls itself the “next chapter in strategic advisory.”

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EXHIBIT THREE---An earlier NYT's expose tarred Bill Clinton w/ Teneo's sub rosa dealings. Teneo is run by Clinton aide---Doug Band. Prosecutors found Band and Clinton listed in pedophile's Jeffry Epsteiin's records as having a shocking 21 email addresses and tele nos. Can you say money laundering? L/E recognizes multiple phone nos and email as the classic MO for money- laundering and tax evasion.

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EXHIBIT FOUR---Chelsea's husband runs a hedge fund that gained access to investors who had ties to the Clintons---even as reports surfaced that Mezvinsky's hedge fund had "underwhelming" returns.

The WSJ reports extensively on the fund's underperformance since its inception and Mezvinsky's mediocre investing and strategizing. Back in 2011, Mezvinsky, now 37, and two former Goldman Sachs colleagues — Bennett Grau and Mark Mallon — began raising money for Mezvinsky's Eaglevale Partners LP hedge fund. Some of Eaglevale's investors included Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. Blankfein, a slavish Democrat supporter, said he had "always been a fan of Hillary Clinton."

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EXHIBIT FIVE-- The eternal Clinton/Goldman Sachs connection. Then-Pres Clinton's WH aide Rahm Emanuel also worked as a Goldman Sachs lobbyist.....both at the same time

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Here's Hillary cozying up to Goldman Sachs.

Then-US Sens Clinton and Corzine. Corzine was fresh out of Goldman Sachs
executive suite, buying his NJ Senate seat office for $65 million; then buying
the NJ governorship. Out of office, he ran a hedge fund where $1.5 B went missing.

[CrazyIvan]

No. It’s also a tax dodge.

[blackdog]

"Mrs. Clinton, How many cents of each dollar in your family foundation goes to Charity, Administrative costs, and salaries of staff? Please be specific and the end number should equal 100?"

- Candy Crowley, debate monitor.