Hillary ordered her State Dept deputy to help out her son-in-law. Mark Mezvinsky has been criticized by the WSJ for his flaccid hedge fund strategies. Luckily Goldman Sachs has his back---and keeps the shady money rolling in. Now it appears flaccid hedger Mezvinsky had a needy investor in (drum roll please) "a mining operation" which was contingent on Hillary's backing Law of The Sea regs in order to start drilling to get the big bucks rolling in.
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Heavens to uranium....did SoS Hillary act to advance someone's mining intersts?
INCONVENIENT FACTOIDS All of the nefarious Clinton Foundation donors have faced intense media scrutiny, particularly Canada-based mining mogul Frank Giustra; Giustra is a mega Clinton Foundation donor and personal friend of Bill Clinton, and was scrutinized for business deals that critics said were linked to his donations to the charity. Giustra is a member of Mr. Clinton's inner circle, joining him on global trips and lending Clinton the use of Giustras private MD-87 jet.
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The NYT report WRT the sell-off of strategic US uranium assets noted that the uranium investors also donated to the Clinton Foundation, as follows:
Canadian mining mogul Frank Giustra--globe-trotting pal of Bill---donated $31.3 million and a pledge for $100 million more to the Clinton Foundation. Giustra built a company that later merged with Uranium One. Seems to have facilitated the uranium sell-off.
Canadian mining mogul Ian Telfer--donated $2.35 million to the Clinton Foundation. Mining investor who was chairman of Uranium One when an arm of the Russian government, Rosatom, acquired it.
Paul Reynolds--mining mogul donated $1 million to $5 million to the Clinton Foundation Adviser on 2007 UrAsia-Uranium One merger. Later helped raise $260 million for the company.
Frank Holmes---mining mogul donated $250,000 to $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Chief Executive of U.S. Global Investors Inc., which held $4.7 million in Uranium One shares in the first quarter of 2011.
Canadian mining mogul Neil Woodyer---Founded Endeavour Mining with Giustra--donated $50,000 to $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Adviser to Uranium One.
GMP Securities Ltd.---Donating portion of profits to the Clinton Foundation. Worked on debt issue that raised $260 million for Uranium One mining interests.
ITEM--The NY Times reported the "Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership" collected about $33 million US tax dollars from Hillary's State Dept between 2008 and 2013.....$25 million of which was passed back across the border into the US-based Clinton Foundation coffers. Plus---mining mogul Giustra pledged a whopping $100 million to the Clinton Foundation....after Clinton helped him clinch the mega-bucks uranium mining deal.
ITEM---millions of dollars and 1,100 donors are shrouded in mystery in the Canadian Giustra/Clinton operation. The Clinton Foundation signed a “memorandum of understanding†with the Obama White House agreeing to reveal its contributors every year. The agreement stipulates that the “Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative†(as the charity was then-known) is part of the Clinton Foundation and must follow “the same protocols.â€
SURPRISE: It hasnt.
Caught w/ his pants down, mining mogul Giustra's backtracking like crazy---saying Canada’s federal privacy law "forbids" the Canadian-registered Clinton charity, from revealing its donors.
A memo he provided news organs cites “fiduciary obligations†to its contributors and Canada’s Personal Information Privacy and Electronic Disclosure Act. “We are not allowed to disclose even to the Clinton Foundation the names of our donors,†Giustra says.
However, Canadian tax and privacy law experts were dubious of the Clinton/Giustra claims. A former director knowledgeable about tax policy at Canada's Department of Finance, said he wasn't aware of any tax laws that would prevent the Clinton charity from releasing its donors' names. "There's nothing that would preclude them from releasing donors' names. It's entirely up to them."
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