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Spanish-Language News Network Failed to Disclose Clinton Donation, Lobbying Expenditures
Washington Free Beacon ^ | May 19, 2015 | Lachlan Markay

Posted on 05/19/2015 2:27:54 AM PDT by maggief

A U.S. Spanish-language news network that lobbied Hillary Clinton’s State Department on U.S. policies toward Mexico reported on those policies without disclosing its lobbying expenditures and is covering the U.S. presidential election without informing views of its company’s donations to the Clinton Foundation.

The network, Azteca America, has employed two Clinton confidantes since late 2008 to lobby the State Department on various initiatives affecting U.S. relations with Mexico, where its parent company is based, during and after Clinton’s tenure at the head of the agency.

Mexican parent TV Azteca, a foundation associated with the company, and that foundation’s U.S. counterpart have together donated as much as $375,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to its website.

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Azteca hired the lobbying firm Ickes & Enright, itself a Clinton Foundation donor. Its principals, husband and wife Democratic powerbrokers Harold Ickes and Janice Enright, are long-time Clinton supporters, fundraisers, and aides.

Months before Azteca inked its contract, Ickes had helped run Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. Two months after Clinton stepped down as secretary of state, he revealed that he was advising Ready for Hillary, a pro-Clinton super PAC. He sits on the board of Priorities USA, another super PAC backing Clinton’s presidential bid, and the Center for American Progress, a group expected to play a key role in crafting Clinton’s policy positions.

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1 posted on 05/19/2015 2:27:54 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

What exactly did they get in return?


2 posted on 05/19/2015 2:35:55 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: maggief
Harold Ickes and Janice Enright

The Inner Sanctum.

3 posted on 05/19/2015 2:42:30 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: maggief

I wonder how many others among our pro-Amnesty politicians received similar unreported “donations”. Traitors disgust me. I never thought of Bill Clinton as a traitor, just a liar and a sleaze, but Hillary, Jeb, Rubio, and the others who support Amnesty are guilty of the worst form of treason. It’s disappointing to see hints that they are doing it out of greed and not just simple stupidity or for the profits from cheap labor.


4 posted on 05/19/2015 2:50:33 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: maggief

Has it been reported what Ickes and Enright were paid during this time? It must be substantial.


5 posted on 05/19/2015 2:54:11 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: Tennessee Nana; sickoflibs; TADSLOS; AuntB; GOPJ; Jane Long; SgtBob; Grampa Dave; ...
More global rot from the Clinton Foundation.. Everything they come in contact with is corrupt....and we, the people are stuck w/ the bills. The Clintons and their cohorts don't give a fig about anyone but themselves.

THIS JUST IN A---US Spanish-language news network---Azteca America---lobbied Hillary Clinton’s State Department on US policies toward Mexico.

Posing as a neutral agent, it then reported on those policies without disclosing its lobbying expenditures. Azteca America is now covering the U.S. presidential election without informing viewers of its company’s donations to the Clinton Foundation.

ADDENDUM Azteca America, has employed two Clinton confidantes since late 2008 to lobby the State Department on various initiatives affecting U.S. relations with Mexico, where its parent company is based, during and after Clinton’s tenure at the head of the agency.

Azteca America's Mexican parent, TV Azteca, is a foundation associated with the company; that foundation’s US counterpart have together donated as much as $375,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to its website.

6 posted on 05/19/2015 3:06:37 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: Ken H

The entire media is part of the Clinton’s eternal campaign. Madame Secretary, my ass.


7 posted on 05/19/2015 3:11:39 AM PDT by ez (Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is... - Milton)
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To: maggief

CORRUPTION GALORE with the LIBTARDS!


8 posted on 05/19/2015 4:02:35 AM PDT by high info voter (Liberal leftists would have "un-friended" Paul Revere!)
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To: Liz

9 posted on 05/19/2015 4:18:10 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Ken H

Here’s a quick recap. Refer to link for more accurate reporting.

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000047572&year=2014

Azteca America
Firm hired: Ickes & Enright Group

2008 $60k
2009 $120 + $50 by Subsidiary TV Azteca
2010 $120 + $80 by Subsidiary TV Azteca
2011 $90
2012 $120
2013 $120
2014 $60 by Subsidiary Azteca America + $60 by by Subsidiary Azteca Station Group
2015 $30 by Subsidiary Azteca Station Group


10 posted on 05/19/2015 4:33:08 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

Thanks!


11 posted on 05/19/2015 4:44:20 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: Liz

ithe news of FoundationGate is going to continue to “grow” until it reaches tall but the most uninformed .

Thank you.


12 posted on 05/19/2015 5:52:41 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey
VIDEO AT WEB SITE-- Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute and a liberal professor at Columbia University, describes what's wrong with the Clinton Foundation: "There is a lot of money sloshing around and everything is blurred and it's not good," said Sachs. "And there is a lot here that is real, whether it's quid pro quos or not, who knows. "

"But the amount of schmoozing involved and crossing lines and one person putting money in a foundation, and then Clinton (and Hillary) getting unbelievable honorariums for speeches, and then contracts going one way or another, it's not good."Those blurry lines have been seen by many people over the years. The book [Clinton Cash] describes them."

SOURCE http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/earth-institute-director-clinton-foundation-its-not-good_941335.html

13 posted on 05/19/2015 5:59:05 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: Liz

the foundation......is crumbling

the foundation being the foundations...plural,, of hillary Mrs Bill..Clinton’s “legacy” and campaign.


14 posted on 05/19/2015 6:04:41 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: ez
The entire media is part of the Clinton’s eternal campaign.

Just as they are being paid by the current admin. There's no such thing as a free press, not when they have their hands out.

15 posted on 05/19/2015 6:06:04 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Liz; maggief

Another leg of the money laundering scam ala Madoff ???


16 posted on 05/19/2015 6:57:45 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now?)
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To: Liz
The New York Times and Washington Post should send a reporter out to interview some of the people who paid a million dollars to hear Bill or Hillary 'talk' for 45 minutes.

Maybe the Washington Times?

Americans would like to know if Arab BIGS - money bag types - who filled rooms with Arabs who couldn't speak or understand English ... and ASK them: "Did you pay over a million dollars for a speech because the 'information' was of that value? Or because Bill Clinton or Hillary are such riveting speakers? Or did you think this might grease the skids - pay for play...

If George Bush had hit up Arab countries for this type of cash you know damn well the New York Times would be all over the story.

Time for the New York Times and Washington Post to prove they're not as sleazy as ABC News...

17 posted on 05/19/2015 8:11:48 AM PDT by GOPJ (Did ABC really 'research' the Clinton Cash book and find 'nothing' or was that also lie?)
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To: maggief

Our Gubamint is for sale.. and soon to be utterly sold out.

Wake-Up America!!


18 posted on 05/19/2015 9:07:33 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: maggief

Democrats and the press are proof there is honor among.....


19 posted on 05/19/2015 9:16:00 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Liz

The Clintons make Juan & Eva, and Ferdinand & Imelda look like pikers in pay-to-play and influence peddling.


20 posted on 05/19/2015 11:49:49 AM PDT by Wuli
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