DENNIS CHEUNG---PIC The Daily Beast.com
Posted on 08/06/2015 11:24:58 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Meet Dennis Cheng, the longtime Clinton aide in charge of raising hundreds of millions for Hillary’s presidential run.
Dennis Cheng, the finance director of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, the man behind what has been predicted to grow to a $2 billion operation, is serious, soft-spoken, unflappable, and fiercely loyal to his boss.
He is never quoted in the press. He doesn’t participate in profiles, won’t be interviewed, and doesn’t head to cable TV to defend Hillary Clinton against the Republican onslaught. In a political-media sphere in which contact with the Clintons can be a golden ticket to every green room of your dreams, Cheng is determined to be unseen and unheard from.
But, if some Republican operatives have their way, he’s about to become the face of Clintonian corruption.
To hear them tell it, Cheng is the Clinton family’s shadowy and silent partner, one who bounces between the various planets in the Clinton universe, tasked with the one job that the Clintons value above all else: gobbling up hordes of cash.
And they plan to make Cheng known to the wider public, hoping that he becomes the face of the interwoven worlds of Hillary Clinton. And if it hurts her fundraising too, well, all the better.
They point to his time as a fundraiser for Clinton’s 2008 presidential bid, his time as deputy chief of protocol in the Clinton State Department, and from there, to the Death Star, otherwise known as the Clinton Foundation. . .
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OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF PROTOCOL
Mr. Dennis Cheng
Deputy Chief of Protocol
Term of Appointment: 07/20/2009 to July 2011
Dennis Cheng was sworn in as Deputy Chief of Protocol of the United States on July 20, 2009. As Deputy Chief, Mr. Cheng serves as Acting Chief of Protocol in the absence of the Chief.
In this role, Mr. Cheng oversees the visits of heads of state, chiefs of government and other international dignitaries who are in the United States to meet with the President, Vice President or Secretary of State. Additionally Mr. Cheng supervises the management, administration and budgetary matters of the office.
Prior to joining the U.S. Department of State, Mr. Cheng served as National Finance Director for then-Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. From 2005 to 2008, he served as New York Finance Director for her Senate and Presidential campaigns. He has also served on the campaigns of Senator John Kerry, General Wesley Clark, Congresswoman Doris Matsui and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, and as a consultant to the William J. Clinton Foundation.
Mr. Cheng is a graduate of Swarthmore College, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics. He earned a Master of Science in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Dennis Cheng
Chief Development Officer
Clinton Foundation
Director of Development and Philanthropy
Clinton Foundation
A Clinton Foundation source noted that while Dennis Cheng is leaving this week, he will continue to work as a "volunteer" through the foundation's March 4 annual gala.
Cheng served as deputy chief of protocol in the Clinton State Department and was Clinton's New York State finance director on her 2008 campaign.
It's difficult to separate the Clintons' political lives from their personal and charitable endeavors; Hillary's new campaign finance director, Dennis Cheng, was recently chief development officer for the Clinton Foundation.
While Hillary Clinton mulled her presidential run, Dennis Cheng pulled double duty for a short time:
(1) Working as the chief development officer at The Clinton Foundation, and,
(2) building a 2016 fundraising team.
Cheng, who is credited with raising more than $248 million for the Clinton Foundation since 2011, will fill Hillary's top campaign finance post and take on the daunting task of fortifying what is expected to be a billion-dollar campaign.
He joined the Foundation in 2011 after serving as Deputy Chief of Protocol of the United States, where he was responsible for overseeing the official visits of foreign heads of state and for organizing bilateral and multilateral summits hosted by President Obama, Vice President Biden, and Secretary Clinton.
Prior to joining Hillary's U.S. Department of State, Dennis served as national finance director and New York finance director for Secretary Clinton.
Cheng left the State Department to work at the Clinton Foundation, where he helped the massive global charity drum up millions of dollars in contributions. Prior to his time at State, Cheng served as finance director on Clinton's previous Senate and presidential campaigns.
Since joining in 2011, Cheng has raised $248 million for the foundation endowment and worked to diversify the group's priorities. ...
SOURCE http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Dennis-Cheng/1687047615
NOTE Veterans for a Strong America, told the Washington Examiner his group now plans to file an additional FOIA request for the emails of Dennis Cheng, the former State Department deputy chief of protocol.
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If gang bangers paid a police chief $400,000 to hear 'a speech' everyone would know it was a bribe.
Wonder if Dennis Cheng gets Trump to run as a Ind and take away votes from the R party and land up with a lot of gov contracts?.
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