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Inside ‘Bill Clinton Inc.’: (truncated)
Washington Post ^ | Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger

Posted on 10/27/2016 4:23:43 AM PDT by sharkhawk

Inside ‘Bill Clinton Inc.’: Hacked memo reveals intersection of charity and personal income

When top Bill Clinton aide Douglas Band wrote the memo, he was a central player at the Clinton Foundation and president of his own corporate consulting firm. Over the course of 13 pages, he made a case that his multiple roles had served the interests of the Clinton family and its charity.

In doing so, Band also detailed a circle of enrichment in which he raised money for the Clinton Foundation from top-tier corporations such as Dow Chemical and Coca-Cola that were clients of his firm, Teneo, while pressing many of those same donors to provide personal income to the former president....

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billclintoninc; charity; clinton; clintoncrimefamily; clintonfoundation; cocacola; crime; dougband; dowchemical; teneo
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This is nothing that we haven't know here for years, but it is in the Compost, and I'm curious if this will have legs. It was the lead news on my IPAD this morning, which have been nothing but Trump bashing till today. Maybe it will be on the network news?
1 posted on 10/27/2016 4:23:43 AM PDT by sharkhawk
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To: sharkhawk
Clinton Global Crime Initiative...
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2 posted on 10/27/2016 4:40:28 AM PDT by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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To: sharkhawk

More propaganda diversion from the WaPo.

This stuff about Bill doesn’t hurt Hillary.


3 posted on 10/27/2016 4:44:27 AM PDT by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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To: Helicondelta; Arthur Wildfire! March; GOPJ; Jane Long; DollyCali; stephenjohnbanker; Grampa Dave
The thinly-veiled "do-good" groups run by Clinton and Band were obviously selling access. Does anyone else find it startling that w/ Obama sitting in the WH, major US corporations were paying big bucks to gain access to ex-pres Clinton?

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It's a known factor these corporations have powerful lobbying arms that get big bucks to gain access to our leaders. Do the shareholders in these corporations mind that more and more corporate monies went to Clinton, Band and other operatives for the same reasons the company hires lobbyists?How did the corporations list the outlays to Clinton and Band on their annual corporate statement to shareholders?

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Even more startling, Obama seemingly had no problem w/ this. Did he ever wonder why these corporate giants that turn the wheels of the US economy did not ask to meet with him?

4 posted on 10/27/2016 5:08:42 AM PDT by Liz (Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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This pic gives me the creeps. Two con artists, one
a sexual predator, trespassing on US govt property.

WHITE HOUSE PHOTO: Clinton and Band walk past Rose Garden

5 posted on 10/27/2016 5:14:21 AM PDT by Liz (Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: sharkhawk

This lead CBS radio at 8 am. Must reeealy think the soros machines are calibrated and locked.


6 posted on 10/27/2016 5:23:32 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - ever.)
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To: sharkhawk; Liz; maggief; RoosterRedux; Impy; onyx; pax_et_bonum; WildHighlander57; Kackikat; ...

ANNOUNCEMENT

The Washington Post has taken a powerful dose of truth. Not nearly up to speed with the forum, but enough to unravel the Clintons’ aura of invicibility.

Quotes are from the article:

— “Spokesmen for Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton and the foundation declined to comment.”

— “We have dedicated ourselves to helping the President secure and engage in for-profit activities,” Band wrote [in leaked memo]

Here is a vindication of Rush Limbaugh:

“Band wrote that Teneo partners had raised in excess of $8 million for the foundation and $3 million in paid speaking fees for Bill Clinton. He said he had secured contracts for the former president that would pay out $66 million over the subsequent nine years if the deals remained in place.”

Emphasis: ‘ ... if the deals remained in place ... ‘

Boycott Coca Cola until they denounce Clinton corruption: “Coke had contributed $4.33 million to the foundation between 2004 and 2010.”

Rush had pointed out that the Clintons had made a lot of promises to their cronies in exchange for money [or what people now call ‘pay to play’].

UBS Global Wealth Management — another rube.

Laureate International Universities also part of Band’s activities.

[Washington Post failed to pointed out how Laureate ripped off students.]

“Clinton has credited Band with conceiving of the Clinton Global Initiative ...” [So Band is indeed a major player.]

And Band formed Teneo.

Now for Hillary’s State Department: “... according to a separate June 2011 memo that Band wrote to the State Department seeking ethics approval for the former president’s employment ...”

“Bill Clinton was initially paid $2 million by Teneo, according to ‘Man of the World,’ a book written with the former president’s participation by author Joe Conason ...”

Now Chelsea:

“According to emails released by WikiLeaks, Chelsea Clinton complained in December 2011 to longtime Clinton aide John Podesta, who at the time was serving as an adviser to the Clinton Foundation, that she had been informed that a member of her father’s office staff who answered to Band had been making calls to British lawmakers ‘on behalf of President Clinton’ for Teneo clients, particularly for the chief executive of Dow Chemical.
Chelsea Clinton wrote that the calls were occurring without her father’s knowledge and that the reactions she was hearing to them would ‘horrify’ Bill Clinton. In another email, she wrote she feared Teneo was ‘hustling business at CGI.’”

Band gets so furious with the ‘spoiled brat’ [as he calls her] that he points out how Bill Clinton gets much less scrutiny:

“Band complained that no similar scrutiny was being applied to Bill Clinton himself. Band noted that he had previously signed a conflict of interest document for CGI.”

Band: “Oddly, WJC does not have to sign such a document even though he is personally paid by 3 cgi sponsors, gets many expensive gifts from them, some that are at home etc.”

Back to Hillary:

“Band outlined that Kelly, his Teneo co-founder, had served simultaneously between 2009 and 2011 as an unpaid economic envoy to Northern Ireland appointed by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and as head of a separate consulting company whose clients included Coke, UBS and Dow. Band wrote that the arrangement was consistent with Kelly’s State Department ethics agreement.
Kelly’s multiple roles came together during one State Department event in 2010, when then-Secretary Clinton recognized Dow, among other companies, for creating jobs in Northern Ireland and thanked Kelly for his work on the issue. Dow became one of Teneo’s first major clients.”

“But the spike raised red flags for an internal company fraud investigator, who expressed alarm that it may be linked to Bill Clinton’s work with a charity founded by Liveris — a charge the company denied. ‘It appears Dow is paying Teneo for connections with Clinton,’ the investigator wrote.”


7 posted on 10/27/2016 6:03:41 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Hillary's Trickle Up policy: take bribes, sell sleazy pardons, water down AIDS medicine.)
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To: Liz
The ‘press’ is starting to cover the Clinton Inc shakedown story...

They must think Hillary's got the job in the bag... and now they're trying to make a bid for some shreds of credibility. How transparently corrupt is that?

Of course it's too late for them. We know what the New York Times and Washington Post are... we know they ignored this story until it was too late... and we won't forget or forgive.

8 posted on 10/27/2016 6:04:33 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "An honest public servant can't become rich in politics" - - President Harry S. Truman)
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To: GOPJ

Amen.


9 posted on 10/27/2016 6:10:04 AM PDT by Liz (Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March; GOPJ
Appearing on Fox Business News, a well respected atty from a well known law firm that specializes in forensic audits have meticulously gone through the Clinton Foundation’s reported tax submissions and compared them with other information leaked by WikiLeaks and other collected data and concluded WITHOUT A DOUBT that none of their numbers have matched up for years! That’s right, YEARS!

This scandal is growing... if the Russians were involved in leaking these emails or not. THE FACT IS THEY EXPOSE THE CLINTON CRIME FAMILY!!!

ITEM---Quoting Wall Street whistleblower Charles Ortel, a former managing director of Dillon, Read & Co opined: "under New York law, tax authorities don't have to show criminal intent to get convictions against foundation officials."

" Authorities need only show that the Clinton Foundation filed materially misleading financial information but kept on fundraising for a myriad of do-good projects."

<><> ITEM---The criminal element's MO to hide larger crimes is to falsify official documents.

Ortel has noted that state AG's could shut down the C/F (same way 25 state A/G's stopped Obama's immigration E/O's.)

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<><> ITEM----The legal culpability of a tax-free "charity" consists of:

<><> soliciting and taking money, and,

<><> showing how they spend it.

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REPORT MAIL FRAUD AND ELECTRONIC FRAUD HERE:

MAIL FRAUD https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/contactUs/filecomplaint.aspx

ELECTRONIC FRAUD---FBI electronic fraud unit--FBI tip page

10 posted on 10/27/2016 6:20:17 AM PDT by Liz (Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: sharkhawk

Wow.... This just proves what I’ve been saying for a long time;

The CGI is the biggest shakedown system in the history of the world. It’s breathtaking, the level of open corruption... in the name of “charity”....


11 posted on 10/27/2016 6:22:18 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: sharkhawk

From 2005...

Watchdog Cites Failures at Charity

http://www.nysun.com/national/watchdog-cites-failures-at-charity/20645/


12 posted on 10/27/2016 6:27:36 AM PDT by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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According to tax returns filed by the Clinton Foundation, only 5.7% of the funds raised actually went to charitable organizations. The rest went to salaries and benefits for employees and "other expenses."

A well run charity spends only about 25% on administrative costs.

Daily Caller: The Clinton Foundation spent a hair under $91.3 million in 2014, the organization’s IRS filings show. But less than $5.2 million of that went to charitable grants. That number pales in comparison to the $34.8 million the foundation spent on salaries, compensation and employee benefits. Another $50.4 million was marked as “other expenses,” while the remaining almost $851K was marked as “professional fundraising expenses.” (Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...

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The greedy Clintons think they're smarter than the rest of us......but no one---not even the Clintons---can launder and steal billions and not leave a huge paper trail.

Remember Billy's pass-through account---emptied every night? Funds passing through Billybooboo's WJC LLC account could end up in (a) offshore accounts, (b) money market accounts, (c) other investments, (d) hedge funds, (e) other foundations....without garnering a smidgen of public scrutiny.....

NOTE: The IRS conforms the most egregious money-laundering, tax evasion occurs from one foundation sending money to another foundation.....the criminal method to siphon off tax-free money for themselves.

13 posted on 10/27/2016 6:30:24 AM PDT by Liz (Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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In addition to the highly visible Clinton Global Initiative, there are several separate Clinton foundations that maintain their own revenue streams. All these entities maintain separate operations for the Clintons’ pay-to-play global racketeering operations:

<><>the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI),

<><>the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton (BHCC) Foundation,

<><>the Clinton Foundation Hong Kong,

<><> William J. Clinton Foundation Charitable Trust (Kenya),

<><>William J. Clinton Foundation Charitable Trust (UK),

<><> the Clinton Foundation Insalingsstiftelse (Sweden).

<><> the Clinton/Guistra Partnership, Canada.

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EMPHASIS should be placed here: the Clintons raised money for a specific project, and got people to contribute for that particular project ....... by snailmail or email. No when the project stalled and the contributions were diverted elsewhere...perhaps for travel, salaries, glitzy events......that is considered mail/electronic fraud.

14 posted on 10/27/2016 6:33:51 AM PDT by Liz (Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

The “real” reason that the Clinton’s haven’t been investigated properly is probably because any federal prosecutor would look at the case and run like hell. There are are so many crimes it would require thousands of investigators YEARS to collect all the facts and evidence to bring it to trial and a corrupt judge would just mouth “thank you” to Hillary for the payoff and dismiss the case.


15 posted on 10/27/2016 6:37:01 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: sharkhawk
The fact that Hillary's name is on all the ballots Nationwide, has made me lose complete faith that we can bring this Country back from the treacherous path it is on. I pray every day that Trump will win but then again, he is only one man. If Trump wins, I fear what the political machine will do to him - especially those in his own party.
16 posted on 10/27/2016 6:48:26 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Liz
...a well known law firm that specializes in forensic audits have meticulously gone through the Clinton Foundation’s reported tax submissions and compared them with other information leaked by WikiLeaks and other collected data and concluded WITHOUT A DOUBT that none of their numbers have matched up for years! That’s right, YEARS!

Maybe someone can take this stinking pile of crap and throw it in the faces of the New York Times and Washington Post editors... Or are they waiting a little longer to make sure Hillary gets elected before they let the truth out?

17 posted on 10/27/2016 7:39:42 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "An honest public servant can't become rich in politics" - - President Harry S. Truman)
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Hey Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger - welcome to party. Too bad you guys are a day late and a dollar short...guess you had to wait until the truth getting out didn’t hurt Hillary too much. Yeah, we’re soooooo impressed with the integrity of the press...


18 posted on 10/27/2016 7:42:52 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "An honest public servant can't become rich in politics" - - President Harry S. Truman)
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To: Liz

You are a dynamo, Liz.

God bless you.


19 posted on 10/27/2016 8:46:10 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Hillary's Trickle Up policy: take bribes, sell sleazy pardons, water down AIDS medicine.)
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To: jsanders2001

Right. They’re stinking heap of corruption is scary. They are not only the most corrupt people in US history but also the most notorious blackmailers and dirty tricksters in US history.


20 posted on 10/27/2016 8:47:29 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Hillary's Trickle Up policy: take bribes, sell sleazy pardons, water down AIDS medicine.)
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