Corrupt Comey? James Brian Comey and Loretta Lynch's Curious Clinton Foundation Connection

What do the Clintons, James Comey, and Loretta Lynch have in common? Besides their mutual involvement in the coverup of Hillary Clinton's email scandal, they also have a common background with HSBC Bank, as InvestmentWatch seems to have been the first to reveal and as others have previously expanded upon. This post attempts a roundup of some key facts.

In 2012, the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a statement and report summarizing a year-long investigation that found HSBC of exposing the U.S. financial system to money-laundering, drug, and terrorist financing risks during the period between the 9/11 terror attacks and 2010. HSBC's notorious clients during this period included Saudi Arabia's Al Rajhi Bank, Iran, Cuba, and Mexico's Sinaloa and Los Zetas cartels.

However, the report failed to reveal that HSBC is a major Clinton Foundation donor. In February 2015, the British paper The Guardian reported that seven benefactors linked to Swiss HSBC accounts in Geneva donated as much as $81 million to the foundation following Bill Clinton's attendance of a November 2005 ball in St. Petersburg's Winter Palace. Clinton was photographed at the ball laying his hand on the wife of Richard Caring, who subsequently paid Clinton $1 million. Other donors included Canadian mining magnate Frank Giustra, racing driver Michael Schumacher, billionaire Eli Broad, French financier Arpad Busson, and convicted underage sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a frequent travel companion of Clinton on what has been dubbed the "Lolita Express". One of Epstein's donations to Clinton, for $25,000, came in July 2006 following Epstein's arrest for sexually abusing a 14-year-old in Florida.

The HSBC case came back to haunt Loretta Lynch during her 2015 confirmation hearings to replace Eric Holder as Attorney General. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee questioned why in December 2012, when Lynch was U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York following a 2010 appointment by Barack Obama, she allowed HSBC to plea bargain a $2 billion fine rather than face criminal charges.

A month after Lynch let HSBC off the hook, on January 30, 2013, HSBC announced that former U.S. Deputy Attorney General and then Bridgewater Associates general counsel James Brien Comey would begin in March as an independent non-executive Director of HSBC Holdings and a member of the board's Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee, a new board created to prevent future abuses of HSBC's banks. Comey had been brought on the committee due to his background prosecuting fraud and securities offenders and drug cartels while United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2002 to 2003 and chairing the President’s Corporate Fraud Task Force from 2003 to 2005, it may be gleaned from one press release. For these two positions, Comey would receive a total of 125,000 pounds a year in compensation, then equivalent to just over $200,000. In July 2013, following Comey's confirmation as Obama's replacement for FBI Director Robert Mueller, HSBC announced that Comey would resign from its board effective in September. However, Bill Still reports that Comey's role with the Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee may have continued and that Arizona Republican representative Matt Salmon has called for a special prosecutor to investigate Comey's connections to HSBC.

Thanks for the summary.

I think the bad actors are HSBC and Lynch. Comey is being sucked into a cesspool of corruption.

HSBC was laundering money. Lynch let them go with a fine (IIRC it amounted to five week’s profit). HSBC is a bad actor, as is Lynch.

HSBC account holders donated to Clinton’s Foundation. I think HSBC’s involvement here is incidental. What did those account holders get in return? That’s the question. Is or was the Clinton Foundation an account holder at HSBC?

What does Lynch gain? What, if any, benefit did she receive for her handling of HSBC’s money laundering? Was pressure exerted on her by HSBC, or a cartel?

Lynch declines to prosecute Clinton’s obvious violations of law regarding her e-mail system. Lynch again is a bad actor.

Was pressure exerted on her by Clinton? What does she gain?

Comey was associated with HSBC for five or six months, which doesn’t amount to anything.

Comey explained in detail the crimes committed by Clinton and then descended into nonsense to explain his recommendation to not prosecute Clinton. Was pressure exerted on him by Clinton? What does Comey gain?

If you’re looking for a single nexus of corruption and are willing to dive deep, an interesting line of inquiry involves the Clinton/Mena connection. A factor common to Clinton, Lynch, and Comey, is drug cartels.

The cartels were laundering billions of dollars through HSBC. Did they influence Lynch?

The largest launderer was the Sinaloa cartel. Around 2002-2006 they were moving against the Juarez cartel. During that time an ICE informant, with the knowledge of Attorney General Ashcroft and Deputy Attorney General Comey, participated in a dozen murders in Juarez. DOJ was more concerned with public exposure of the killings than the killings themselves. Why? Was it a desire to cover-up an operation gone bad, or was it tacit approval of killing Juarez cartel members? Perhaps at the behest of the Sinaloa cartel? Sounds far-fetched, but not impossible. Did the cartel influence, either through threats or money, Ashcroft? Comey? Why did they turn a blind eye?

It has long been alleged that the Clintons received large sums of money from a drug running operation out of Mena, Arkansas. This involved Columbian cartels, not Mexican. This gets into CIA black ops, who knows what really happened.

Clinton, Lynch, and Comey, are all corrupt. The common factor may be drug cartels. You heard it here first.

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