Hillary State Dept. Helped Jailed Clinton Foundation Donor Get $10 Mil from U.S. for Failed Haiti

judicial watch ^ | 8-23-16

[doug from upland]

The new batch of emails showing that the State Department gave special access to top Clinton Foundation donors while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state brings to mind the case of a shady Miami businessman serving a 12-year prison sentence after scamming the government out of millions. His name is Claudio Osorio, a Clinton Foundation donor who got $10 million from the government after the Clinton State Department reportedly pulled some strings.

Osorio got the money from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a federal agency that operates under the guidance of the State Department, to build houses in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. The OPIC supposedly promotes U.S. government investments abroad to foster the development and growth of free markets. Osorio’s “Haiti project” was supposed to build 500 homes for displaced families in the aftermath of the earthquake. The project never broke ground and Osorio used the money to finance his lavish lifestyle and fund his illicit business ventures. He also ran a fraudulent international company with facilities in the U.S., United Arab Emirates, Germany, Angola and Tanzania that stole millions from investors. Some of the OPIC Haiti money was used to repay investors of his fraudulent company (Innovida), according to federal prosecutors. In September 2013, Osorio was sentenced to 150 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release.

Not surprisingly, the Department of Justice (DOJ) never mentioned Osorio’s Clinton connections and seemed to downplay the $10 million scam of taxpayer funds by focusing on the “victims” that invested in his bogus company. Among them was a beloved professional basketball star. “Osorio offered and sold shareholder interests and joint-venture partnerships in Innovida to select individuals and groups, raising more than $40,000,000 from approximately ten (10) investors and investment groups in the United States and abroad,” a DOJ statement says. “Osorio solicited and recruited investors by making materially false representations and concealing and omitting material facts regarding, among other things, the profitability of the company, the rates of return on investment funds, the use of investors’ funds and the existence of a pending lucrative contract with a third-party entity. Osorio received moneys from investors based on these misrepresentations. Osorio used investor monies for his and his co-conspirators’ personal benefit and to maintain and further the fraud scheme.”

The bigger story is that, despite Osorio’s shady history, it appears that the Clinton State Department helped him get $10 million—which will never be repaid—because he was a Clinton Foundation donor. This connection was not made until years after Osorio got sentenced. After his 2013 sentencing in Miami, the area’s largest newspaper tied him to the Clintons and President Obama as a campaign donor who held fundraisers at his waterfront home, but the foundation was not mentioned. A Washington D.C. newspaper eventually connected the dots after obtaining a document that shows an OPIC official recommending funding for Osorio’s Haiti project. In the document, the OPIC official writes that Osorio’s company had “U.S. persons of political influence that are able to assist in advancing the company’s plans.” It continues: “For instance, former President Bill Clinton is personally in contact with the Company to organize its logistical and support needs,” the document states. “Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made available State Department resources to assist with logistical arrangements.” Additionally, the Clinton Global Initiative had “indicated that it would be willing to contract to purchase 6,500 homes in Haiti from InnoVida within the next year.”

Less than 24 hours after the OPIC official submitted the recommendation, the news report says, OPIC approved Osorio’s $10 million loan to build homes in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Not one was ever built and no one has been held accountable for giving the crooked businessman millions of taxpayer dollars.

[DoughtyOne]

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[Bayard]

People really need to realize that whatever problems you might have with what Trump says or even does, it cannot even compare with the kind of corruption that Hillary has already brought about under her watch in her actual history as an official.

[marron]

I saw this one on TV.

[AnthonySoprano]

BOOM!

[Doogle]

I heard this morning that while SOS she got 55 Million from the taxpayers for a “ for profit”
college associated with the foundation......they
Also made 18 million from the college....

[InterceptPoint]

Another all time Clinton Top 10 Hit. We need more room. Moving to Top 100.

[BillyBonebrake]

I once had a liberal friend. She had a bumper sticker on her Subaru that said “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention”. I’m sure right now she’s saying “They all do it.”

[rockrr]

Everything Hellery touches turns to ....(money for her, shyt and misery for everyone else).

[erlayman]

It is a great talking point for everyone asking for specifics of illegal behavior but JW needs specify exactly how this “reportedly” happened under the Clinton Foundation watch.

[indthkr]

Clinton Haiti scam bump for later....

[Sybeck1]

[littleharbour]

Clinton makes Merkel look like a Victoria Secret model. Is America seriously going to present this train wreck as the Leader of the Free World? What an embarrassment.

[Sybeck1]

I was waiting on someone to notice. Looks like a housecoat to me

[sheana]

Omg!! I just can’t get over that outfit. Best pic yet. She dresses like a bag lady.

[evaporation-plus]

Come on !!!! That’s photoshopped ? LOL

[wildbill]

Isn’t this the smoking gun that everyone has been saying did not exist? Why does this not qualify as a bribe to the foundation with a quid pro quo back to Osoria in the form of the grant of $10 million?