Firms Paid Bill Clinton Millions As They Lobbied Hillary Clinton At State Department

International Business Times ^ | 04/28/2015 | By Andrew Perez, David Sirota , Matthew Cunningham-Cook

[SeekAndFind]

Former President Bill Clinton accepted more than $2.5 million in speaking fees from 13 major corporations and trade associations that lobbied the U.S. State Department while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, an International Business Times investigation has found. The fees were paid directly to the former president, and not directed to his philanthropic foundation.

Many of the companies that paid Bill Clinton for these speeches -- a roster of global giants that includes Microsoft, Oracle and Dell -- engaged him within the same three-month period in which they were also lobbying the State Department in pursuit of their policy aims, federal disclosure documents show. Several companies received millions of dollars in State Department contracts while Hillary Clinton led the institution.

The disclosure that President Clinton received personal payments for speeches from the same corporate interests that were actively seeking to secure favorable policies from a federal department overseen by his wife underscores the vexing issue now confronting her presidential aspirations: The Clinton family is at the center of public suspicions over the extent of insider dealing in Washington, emblematic of concerns that corporate interests are able to influence government action by creatively funneling money to people in power.

“The dynamic is insidious and endemic to this system,” said Meredith McGhee, policy director of the Campaign Legal Center, a campaign finance watchdog group in Washington. "The fact is that the wealthiest .01 percent on the outside of government believes -- fervently -- that by paying speaking fees, or making campaign contributions, that it can gain access and influence."

Federal ethics rules aim to discourage officials and their spouses from accepting gifts from interests “seeking official action” from a government agency. But the rules do not apply to speaking fees, said Craig Holman an advocate for tightened ethics structures

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

I’m shocked!

[longfellow]

Dear God, feel sorry for the agents that would have to take a bullet for these despicable a-holes.

[DannyTN]

How many Supreme Court Justices have family foundations, and who contributes to them?

[hondact200]

The Clintons need to resign from political life and the so called - Clinton Foundation (AKA) Clinton Money laundering Business should have its assets seized and it be disbanded permanently. he Clintons should spend the rest of their unnatural lives in a Federal Prison.

[laplata]

Dear God, feel sorry for the agents that would have to take a bullet for these despicable a-holes.

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The way Hitlery treats them, she should be nervous about them protecting her sorry butt.

[hoosiermama]

Shake It down?
Mmmm. Mmmm mmmmm

Just like JJ and Al. ?

[Blood of Tyrants]

The entire Rat party is nothing but a bunch of crooks and thieves.

[EQAndyBuzz]

But building are being set ablaze in Baltimore. This is now backpage news.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

You bet...!

[gov_bean_ counter]

So he was her pimp???

[AZLiberty]

As I said on the short-lived “Rebirth of Martin Luther” thread:

The world needs a modern-day Martin Luther to take on the Progressive Religion in the same way the original took on the Church.

Look how many people are buying dispensations from our secular popes.

[Liz]

The symbiotic relationship between state dept lobbyists and the Clinton foundation is striking. At least 181 companies, individuals, and foreign govt on-record as Clinton Foundation donors also lobbied Hillary's State Dept......(according to a Vox analysis of foundation records and federal lobbying disclosures).

So how was this info conveyed from the State Dept to The Clinton Foundation? From Hill to Bill? Which corporations had business before the State Dept? How did Bill know who to shakedown for donations?

Taxpayers demand the following info be made public at once:

<><> Minutes of corporate board meetings wherein discussion of The Clinton Foundation donations and lobbying the State Dept were discussed.

<><> How publicly-traded companies disclosed to shareholders their donations to the Clinton Foundation.

<><> How donations to the Clinton Foundation were handled on corporate financial reports.

<><> Were donations to the Clinton Foundation conveyed by corporate auditors? To corporate CFO's?

Corporations should also be requested to release:

<><> letters of solicitation The Clinton Foundation sent corporate donors.

<><> copies of all corporate emails wherein corporations discussed lobbying activites and donations to the Clinton Foundation.

<><> details on donations made by individual corporate executives to the Clinton Foundation.

<><> request lobbying agents for corporations provide all of the above-mentioned info.

ASK YOUR SENATOR/CONGRESSMAN TO GET YOU THIS INFO.

WEB SITE http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

[bmwcyle]

Good question

[TomGuy]

How many slush funds charities do the Clintons have?

So far, 4 have been mentioned in various articles/threads:

The Clinton Foundation
Clinton Global Initiative
Clinton Health Access Initiative
Canada-based Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership

REVEALED: Washington Post Uncovers 1,100 Hidden Foreign ‘Clinton Cash’ Donations

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Wonder how many others they have in other countries/Caribbean island nations?

[PGalt]

Thanks for the post; ping/post. Great article and comments here and at the source. OUT-OF-CONTROL executive branch BUMP! Check$ and Balance$? Plenty for them.

We the people/work slaves, can make our payments to our socialist overlords/plunderers through direct deposit payroll deductions into their coffers. Accelerating unfunded schemes may require greater (forced) contributions in the near future…

http://www.usdebtclock.org

[Liz]

Thanks for the W/Po link. How many slush funds do the Clintons have? Go here to see some of it.

CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE web site
you can peruse 276 web pages of obscure programs
all of them vehicles to raise money
all of them expecting payback w/ Hillary in the WH.

1271 Avenue of the Americas 42nd Floor
New York, NY 10020
212-348-8882

WEB SITE http://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative

NOTE The do-gooder Clintons calculatedly morphed into
"The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Family Foundation" .....
giving them even more fund-raising capabilities w/ a friendly "family" aura.

"Smile everybody. Another $100 million came in today."

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A NYT's expose chronicled the shady financing of the tax-exempt money machine----The Clinton Global Initiative foundation.

[Vaduz]

Now we know why she erased 30,000 e-mails someone needs to get that server can’t delete everything.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Liz.

[GOPJ]

Thanks civ