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Hillary Helps a Bank—and Then It Funnels Millions to the Clintons
Atlantic, the ^ | 31 July 2015 | Conor Friedersdorf

Posted on 02/09/2016 11:00:59 AM PST by Lorianne

The Swiss bank UBS is one of the biggest, most powerful financial institutions in the world. As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton intervened to help it out with the IRS. And after that, the Swiss bank paid Bill Clinton $1.5 million for speaking gigs. The Wall Street Journal reported all that and more Thursday in an article that highlights huge conflicts of interest that the Clintons have created in the recent past.

The piece begins by detailing how Clinton helped the global bank.

“A few weeks after Hillary Clinton was sworn in as secretary of state in early 2009, she was summoned to Geneva by her Swiss counterpart to discuss an urgent matter. The Internal Revenue Service was suing UBS AG to get the identities of Americans with secret accounts,” the newspaper reports. “If the case proceeded, Switzerland’s largest bank would face an impossible choice: Violate Swiss secrecy laws by handing over the names, or refuse and face criminal charges in U.S. federal court. Within months, Mrs. Clinton announced a tentative legal settlement—an unusual intervention by the top U.S. diplomat. UBS ultimately turned over information on 4,450 accounts, a fraction of the 52,000 sought by the IRS.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; irs; ubs
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Hadn't seen this posted and now it is being brought up again in other journals.
1 posted on 02/09/2016 11:00:59 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Its amazing what information Leftist journalists can come up with if they actually want to....


2 posted on 02/09/2016 11:02:03 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Lorianne

Will the blind (democrats and Americans voters) see?


3 posted on 02/09/2016 11:05:11 AM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: Lorianne

She is corrupt through and through. Jail for her!


4 posted on 02/09/2016 11:05:14 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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HOW TO BUY THE CLINTONS----The head of a Canadian company with an enormous interest in the Congo's mining and oil sector, Lukas Lundin of Lundin Mining, announced a $100 million donation to the Clinton Foundation on the heels of Hillary/'s first presidential campaign.

After the Congolese government attempted to regain control of its own mines, the State Department intervened on behalf of Lundin Mining and another mining company, Freeport Mines, also a Clinton foundation donor.

A round of talks in 2010, thought to be aided by the Clinton State Department, concluded with the pair of well-connected companies retaining their stakes in the mines and with the Congolese government being shut out of its own resources. (hat tip Schweizer book---Clinton Cash)

EXHIBIT ONE---Hillary/s State Dept Aide Shared Classified Information With Clinton Foundation, Email Shows; Cheryl Mills sent information marked confidential to Clinton Foundation in 2012 / BY Alana Goodman September 28, 2015

A key aide of Hillary Clinton emailed classified information about the government in Congo to a staffer at the Clinton Foundation in 2012, according to a copy of the correspondence obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Cheryl Mills, Clinton/s chief of staff at the State Department, sent the email to the Clinton Foundation’s foreign policy director, Amitabh Desai, on July 12, 2012.

The message, which was originally obtained by the group Citizens United through a public records request, is partially redacted because it includes foreign government information that has been classified Confidential by the State Department......but was not marked classified by the State Department until this past summer, intelligence sources tell the Free Beacon that it would have been classified at the time Mills sent it because foreign government information is considered classified from inception.

The message could add to concerns from congressional and FBI investigators about whether former Secretary Clinton and her aides mishandled classified information while at the State Department.

About half of the forwarded message was redacted due to its classified nature before the State Department released it to Citizens United last month. Although it is not clear what the redacted section includes, the State Department said in a court motion filed last week that it concerns both foreign government information and critical aspects of U.S. foreign relations, including U.S. foreign activities carried out by officials of the U.S. Government.

The State Department added that the disclosure of this information has the potential to damage and inject friction into our bilateral relationship with African countries whose cooperation is important to U.S. national security.

The Clinton Foundation and the State Department did not respond to request for comment about the email, or say whether Desai...a non-government employee who has worked at the foundation since 2007....would have been authorized to view Confidential information.

---SNIP---

REST AT http://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-aide-shared-classified-information-with-foundation-email-shows/

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EXHIBIT TWO Cheryl was also feathering her own nest----Mills currently runs the BlackIvy Group, a consulting firm that focuses on developing dirt-poor Sub-Saharan Africa.

SUB SAHARAN AFRICA / State Dept list
African Union Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Cameroon Congo (Brazzaville) Congo (DRC-Kinshasa) Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia.

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EXHIBIT THREE--- Sub Sahara Muslim immigrants are streaming into the US at an unprecedented rate, all subsidized by struggling taxpayers. What do Obama, Cheryl Mills, and Hillary know about this?

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EXHIBIT FOUR--- The State Dept email, which discussed the relationship between the governments in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, was originally drafted by Johnnie Carson, the State Department/s assistant secretary for African affairs, who sent it to Mills State Department email address.

Cheryl Mills later forwarded the full message to the foundation/s operative along with talking points for ex-President Clinton shortly before Bill Clinton was scheduled to visit the Congo region.

MORAL OF THE STORY When Hillary smells money, she will flout the law to suck-up to Clinton Foundation donors....particularly w/ financial stakes in the lucrative oil/mineral mining industry.

5 posted on 02/09/2016 11:05:40 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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HOW TO BUY THE CLINTONS----The head of a Canadian company with an enormous interest in the Congo's mining and oil sector, Lukas Lundin of Lundin Mining, announced a $100 million donation to the Clinton Foundation on the heels of Hillary/'s first presidential campaign.

After the Congolese government attempted to regain control of its own mines, the State Department intervened on behalf of Lundin Mining and another mining company, Freeport Mines, also a Clinton foundation donor.

A round of talks in 2010, thought to be aided by the Clinton State Department, concluded with the pair of well-connected companies retaining their stakes in the mines and with the Congolese government being shut out of its own resources. (hat tip Schweizer book---Clinton Cash)

EXHIBIT ONE---Hillary/s State Dept Aide Shared Classified Information With Clinton Foundation, Email Shows; Cheryl Mills sent information marked confidential to Clinton Foundation in 2012 / BY Alana Goodman September 28, 2015

A key aide of Hillary Clinton emailed classified information about the government in Congo to a staffer at the Clinton Foundation in 2012, according to a copy of the correspondence obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Cheryl Mills, Clinton/s chief of staff at the State Department, sent the email to the Clinton Foundation’s foreign policy director, Amitabh Desai, on July 12, 2012.

The message, which was originally obtained by the group Citizens United through a public records request, is partially redacted because it includes foreign government information that has been classified Confidential by the State Department......but was not marked classified by the State Department until this past summer, intelligence sources tell the Free Beacon that it would have been classified at the time Mills sent it because foreign government information is considered classified from inception.

The message could add to concerns from congressional and FBI investigators about whether former Secretary Clinton and her aides mishandled classified information while at the State Department.

About half of the forwarded message was redacted due to its classified nature before the State Department released it to Citizens United last month. Although it is not clear what the redacted section includes, the State Department said in a court motion filed last week that it concerns both foreign government information and critical aspects of U.S. foreign relations, including U.S. foreign activities carried out by officials of the U.S. Government.

The State Department added that the disclosure of this information has the potential to damage and inject friction into our bilateral relationship with African countries whose cooperation is important to U.S. national security.

The Clinton Foundation and the State Department did not respond to request for comment about the email, or say whether Desai...a non-government employee who has worked at the foundation since 2007....would have been authorized to view Confidential information.

---SNIP---

REST AT http://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-aide-shared-classified-information-with-foundation-email-shows/

========================================

EXHIBIT TWO Cheryl was also feathering her own nest----Mills currently runs the BlackIvy Group, a consulting firm that focuses on developing dirt-poor Sub-Saharan Africa.

SUB SAHARAN AFRICA / State Dept list
African Union Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Cameroon Congo (Brazzaville) Congo (DRC-Kinshasa) Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia.

===================================================

EXHIBIT THREE--- Sub Sahara Muslim immigrants are streaming into the US at an unprecedented rate, all subsidized by struggling taxpayers. What do Obama, Cheryl Mills, and Hillary know about this?

============================================

EXHIBIT FOUR--- The State Dept email, which discussed the relationship between the governments in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, was originally drafted by Johnnie Carson, the State Department/s assistant secretary for African affairs, who sent it to Mills State Department email address.

Cheryl Mills later forwarded the full message to the foundation/s operative along with talking points for ex-President Clinton shortly before Bill Clinton was scheduled to visit the Congo region.

MORAL OF THE STORY When Hillary smells money, she will flout the law to suck-up to Clinton Foundation donors....particularly w/ financial stakes in the lucrative oil/mineral mining industry.

6 posted on 02/09/2016 11:05:41 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: PGR88

If there is a special place in hell for women that don’t support other women does that mean that there is a special place in heaven for Men that only support other men?


7 posted on 02/09/2016 11:07:17 AM PST by georgiarat (Obama, providing incompetence since Day One!)
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To: Lorianne

When did the libtards at The Atlantic become part of imaginary the “vast right wing conspiracy”?


8 posted on 02/09/2016 11:07:23 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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Now who is surprised at that?

Martha Stewart went to prison (gracefully I might add) for far less that the numerous things the Clinton's have done. When will someone step up and charge these career criminals?

9 posted on 02/09/2016 11:08:50 AM PST by DaveA37
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bimp


10 posted on 02/09/2016 11:14:51 AM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: DaveA37

bimp


11 posted on 02/09/2016 11:14:51 AM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: DaveA37

bimp


12 posted on 02/09/2016 11:14:52 AM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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“Its amazing what information Leftist journalists can come up with if they actually want to....”

If Hitlery pisses of the SanderClause kids enough with enough fraud, expect the trickle of negative stories to become a waterfall with enough force to carve out a canyon large enough to make that one in Arizona look like a street gutter


13 posted on 02/09/2016 11:19:27 AM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Lorianne

14 posted on 02/09/2016 11:22:37 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Lorianne

TIMELINES are IMPORTANT.....they WILL show QUID PRO QUO in SPADES for the Clinton Crime Family Slush Fund!!!


15 posted on 02/09/2016 11:22:45 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Lorianne

Those 4,450 names should make for interesting reading. I’ll bet they are all on the RAT and Klintoon hit list.


16 posted on 02/09/2016 11:24:54 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Liz

We Freepers know that the scandal is in the Clinton Crime Family Slush Fund that has BILLIONS in it......will the FBI be SMART ENOUGH and BRAVE ENOUGH to do look into it?


17 posted on 02/09/2016 11:25:07 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Lorianne

UBS - isn’t that where you plug into the computer?

Seriously, though, Herself is getting very good at taking the money of big banks and Wall Street brokerage firms, then turning around and kicking their collective butts. Doesn’t seem like a really good business model for the big-money people.

Unless you are dealing with somebody on a par with the Mafia, and this is just “protection” payments.


18 posted on 02/09/2016 11:29:13 AM PST by alloysteel (If I considered the consequences of my actions, I would rarely do anything.)
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To: fella

I was thinking the same thing. Would like to know who those 4,450 were.


19 posted on 02/09/2016 11:40:38 AM PST by Guardian Sebastian
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To: Lorianne

20 posted on 02/09/2016 11:48:37 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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