Facing Questions Over Foreign Donations, Hillary Clinton Starts Cutting Ties to Bill’s Foundation

Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation moved swiftly Friday to begin cutting ties as she prepares to announce her candidacy for president, amid mounting criticism over millions of dollars in foreign donations that have poured into the foundation’s coffers.

Report: Clinton changed stance on trade deal after donations to foundation
The Hill | 4/9/15 | Ben Kamisar / FT Posted by Nachum

The Clinton Foundation reportedly accepted millions of dollars from a Colombian oil company head before then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decided to support a trade deal with Colombia despite worries of human rights violations.

The report in the International Business Times comes as Clinton readies an expected run for president. She’s been dogged by questions about whether foreign donations to her foundations could have influenced her official decisions.

The report centers on donations from Frank Giustra and the oil company that he founded, Pacific Rubiales. In a Wall Street Journal story from 2008, Giustra is described as a “friend and traveling companion” of former President Clinton who donated more than $130 million to Clinton’s philanthropies. He’s also a Clinton Foundation board member and has participated in projects and benefits for the foundation. When workers at Pacific Rubiales decided to strike in 2011, the Columbian military reportedly used force to stop the strikes and compel them to return to work, IBT reports, citing the Washington office of Latin America, a human rights group.

Those accusations of human rights violations were part of the criticism of the United States-Colombia Free Trade Promotion Agreement, which was passed by Congress later that year. Pacific Rubiales has repeatedly denied charges that it infringed on workers’ rights. (Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...

The Clintons are the poster faces of phony do-good liberalism.
Tooting their horn--bleating about "concern" for their fellow-man---
and willing to make a buck on it.

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(SOURCE "In Charity And Politics, Clinton Donors Overlap," The NY Times, 12/20/07)

BACKSTORY The Clinton Foundation Initially Suggested That The $31.3 Million Contribution Listed On Its Tax Return Did Not Come From A Single Donor. Then changed its story, that, It had, in fact, Come From A Single Source, But Clinton officials Declined To Identify It.

NY TIMES REPORT --- The $31.3 million donation to the Clinton Foundation, which was previously undisclosed, came from the Radcliffe Foundation run by Frank Giustra, a Canadian who has made millions financing mining deals around the world.

Mr. Giustra has become a member of Mr. Clinton's inner circle, joining him on global trips and lending him the use of his private MD-87 jet.

For weeks, Clinton Foundation officials had suggested that the $31.3 million contribution listed on its tax return did not come from a single donor. They then said it came from a single source, but declined to identify it.

On Wednesday afternoon, a representative of Mr. Giustra contacted The NY Times and acknowledged the Radcliffe contribution." ####

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REFERENCE --L/E has said that the biggest money-laundering frauds are one foundation writing a check to another foundation----how they skim off tax-free money for themselves.

The check recipient takes a cut then deposits the bulk in a numbered offshore bank account for the check-writer's use later.

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