ABC: In Haiti, a Factory Where Big Money, State Department and the Clintons Meet

ABC News ^ | October 11, 2016 | MATTHEW MOSK BRIAN ROSS BRIAN EPSTEIN CHO PARK

[maggief]

Bill and Hillary Clinton have hailed the factory churning out Old Navy sweatshirts in an industrial park here as a shining achievement in their efforts to rebuild this island nation after a destructive earthquake in 2010.

But the garment factory has underdelivered on projected jobs. Haitian workers have accused managers of bullying and sexual harassment. And an ABC News investigation has found that after opening its factory in the Haitian industrial park — built with $400 million of global aid — the Korean firm became a Clinton Foundation donor and its owner invested in a startup company owned by Hillary Clinton’s former chief of staff.

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At the same time, the Clinton Foundation says it “facilitated” the construction of a luxury hotel in Port-au-Prince, a Marriott owned by Denis O’Brien, who has given $10 million to $25 million to the Clinton Foundation. O’Brien, an Irish billionaire who runs the Jamaica-based telecom giant Digicel, said he financed the hotel himself.

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The modern industrial park, with wide, clear roads connecting rows of low-slung warehouses, would be paid for by the Inter-American Development Bank, which provided $256.8 million in grants to support construction. The bank has donated $1 million to $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to its website. Large American retailers, including Wal-Mart and Gap Inc., have served as buyers for the clothes shipped from Haiti to the U.S. with special U.S. tax breaks. Wal-Mart has given $1 million to $5 million, and Gap has given $100,000 to $250,000 to the foundation. And in 2012, SAE-A, the Korean garment company that was recruited to become the anchor tenant of the park, gave $50,000 to $100,000 to the foundation.

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[maggief]

Two years after the factory was operational, Mills had left the State Department. She turned up, according to an online press release, at a Sae-A company event in Costa Rica. She appeared there, the release said, on behalf of her privately owned international development firm, Black Ivy Group. “Ms. Mills was invited and came to the event as a guest, as did many others,” Garwood said, in response to questions from ABC News.

The chairman of SAE-A, Woong-ki Kim, was identified on the Black Ivy website as one of the initial investors in the firm. That page has since been taken down. “The chairman’s investment in Black Ivy was a personal investment that was not made until late in 2014,” Garwood said. “As a policy, the chairman does not discuss his personal investments.”

Black Ivy Group is described on its website as a firm that “builds and grows commercial enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa” and focuses on “building and leveraging a vast network of global and local relationships spanning the public, private and government sectors.” Mills’ partner in the venture, Jean-Louis Warnholz, worked on the Caracol project in Haiti while serving as a senior State Department adviser to Hillary Clinton.

[mad_as_he$$]

ABC? Really?

[NormsRevenge]

HILLARY INC. TEA .. 30 YEARS IN THE BREWING

[ColdOne]

What is up with ABC? This is the 2nd truthfull article i have read today from them.

[Red Badger]

ABC has turned against the KKKlintoons?.............Disney?.............

[RummyChick]

There have been at least two threads today from ABC that generated that response. Can’t believe it they did two critical stories today

[MNDude]

That’s what I noticed, what’s up with ABC?

[MNDude]

Also ABC’s recent debate poll showed Trump beating Hillary by a landslide. ABC news has probably posted more truthful stories this week then CNN has done all year!

[advertising guy]

The leaked emails is the answer for those who actually read em, these imbreeds know what is comin, cause they did it, Gore did not show up cause Bill ain’t satisfyin Hillary

[ColdOne]

So far today 2 plus the real poll results, yep more than Cnn has done all year.

[Red Badger]

Gore did not show up?

Where?

He was supposed to be in FL today...........

[Freee-dame]

Maybe they are publishing these Haiti collusion stories so that when Trump (hopefully) talks about what happened with billions in aid that was supposed to build housing, they can say it’s old news and dismiss it. Hundreds of Haitians died just last week. Were they still living in very unstable shacks? Where are the strong houses that were supposed to be built? Where did the money go? ...mixed up with the Clintons and friends....

[Rusty0604]

This is truly amazing, the second article BY ABC about the Clintons in Haiti!

[originalbuckeye]

I think they are banking on it being ‘too little, too late’ But they can come out afterwards and say they reported on it.

[Rusty0604]

Second article posted here by ABC, not the same one, but same subject! Has ABC news been taken over?

[Sarah Barracuda]

Unless its on ABC News tonight no one will see it..unfortunately most people still get their news from TV Broadcasts

[true believer forever]

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/1/13/headlines/nyc_protesters_target_bill_clinton_over_conditions_in_haiti_6_years_after_earthquake

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/us/politics/hillary-clinton-haiti.html

http://freebeacon.com/politics/haitians-protest-hillary-clintons-destruction-of-country/

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/04/24/schweizer-clinton-donors-relatives-got-rich-off-haiti-contracts-us-taxpayers/

http://nypost.com/2015/11/02/5-hillary-scandals-the-media-is-missing/

http://www.politicsintheusa.com/haitians-protest-outside-hillary-clintons-office-billions-stolen-clinton-foundation/

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2013/07/clintons-pushed-most-wasteful-of-u-s-funded-haiti-projects/

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/04/24/schweizer-clinton-donors-relatives-got-rich-off-haiti-contracts-us-taxpayers/

http://haitiantimes.com/7-articles-to-read-uncovering-hillary-clintons-haiti-record-14284/

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-foundation-travels-to-haiti-amid-criticisms/article/2569235

http://www.haitian-truth.org/huge-scandal-at-clinton-foundation-the-new-york-times-takes-down-the-clinton-foundation-this-could-be-devastating-for-bill-and-hillary-added-commentary-by-haitian-truth/

http://www.truthandaction.org/hacked-42-page-dnc-memo-reveals-array-clinton-foundation-scandal-facts/2/

 

 

Haitians Protest Outside Hillary Clinton’s Office Over ‘Billions Stolen’ by Clinton Foundation

 

AND SOME HAVE CRITICIZED THEM FOR PERCEIVED SLOW PROGRESS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES…INCLUDING THE MUCH-HYPED CARACOL INDUSTRIAL PARK THAT SECRETARY CLINTON PERSONALLY PUSHED ...

 

 

[maggief]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fobs-hillarys-state-dept-gave-special-attention-friends/story?id=42615379

‘FOBs’: How Hillary’s State Dept. Gave Special Attention to ‘Friends of Bill’ After Haiti Quake
By MATTHEW MOSK BRIAN ROSS BRIAN EPSTEIN CHO PARK
Oct 11, 2016, 12:18 PM ET

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-us-officials-asked-haitians-bill/story?id=42703050

Under Hillary Clinton, US Officials Asked Haitians, Do You Like Bill?
By MATTHEW MOSK BRIAN ROSS
Oct 11, 2016, 2:45 PM ET

[true believer forever]

- September 21, 2016 -

​VOTER'S GUIDE TO CLINTON GRAFT   HAITI

"Sadly, when an earthquake rocked the nation of Haiti in 2010, corruption moved in faster than the help so desperately needed. Today, the people of Haiti are still suffering despite the billions of dollars that have flowed into the Clinton Foundation. The Clintons exploited this terrible disaster to steal billions of dollars from the sick and starving people of Haiti. The world trusted the Clintons to help the Haitian people during their most desperate time of need and they were deceived. The Clintons and their friends are richer today while millions still live in tents. The world deserves to know where the money went and why help was never sent." – Bernard Sansaricq, Former President of the Senate, Republic of Haiti.

Digicel received the first cellular award of $2.5 million so Haitians could receive money over a mobile phone network. The Digicel Group is owned by Irish billionaire Denis O’Brien, who has given $10 million to the Clinton Foundation.

Coincidentally the United States government paid Digicel $45 million to open a hotel in Port-au-Prince. The Digicel Group teamed up with Marriott International in 2011 in Port-au-Prince to build a luxury hotel.

For $55 million USAID was supposed to build 4,000 houses outside Haiti’s capital by 2012 but only 816 have been constructed even though funding increased to a startling $90 million.

Caracol built a textile factory in northern Haiti, an area untouched by the earthquake. The factory was built to help Target, Walmart and the Gap, as the companies were able to use the Haitians for cheap labor which allowed them to cut down on costs.

The Clintons declared Caracol would create 60,000 jobs.  It created less than 5,000 jobs, had no impact on the Haitian economy, and did nothing to help rebuild southern Haiti - the actual part of the country that was destroyed by the earthquake.

The next time Hillary says she cares about you, remember how the Clintons and their donor friends ripped off the Haitians ...