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Wikileaks Bombshell: Podesta Owned 75,000 Shares in Putin-Connected Energy Co.
Breitbart ^ | 10-13-16 | Jerome Hudson

Posted on 10/13/2016 3:44:00 PM PDT by Anti-Hillary

Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta’s membership on the executive board of an energy company, Joule Unlimited, which received millions from a Putin-connected Russian government fund, also included “75,000 common shares,” according to an email exchang uncovered by the Wikileaks hacks. In the newly-uncovered email exchanged under the subject “Podesta Outstanding Docs for Joule,” Eryn Sepp, who was an assistant to Podesta at the Center for American Progress, forwarded a message to Podesta from Mark C. Solakian, who was Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Joule Unlimited Technologies, Inc. “It is my understanding that John transferred the resulting 75,000 common shares from the option exercise to the Leonidio LLC.,” Slovakian wrote in a January 2014 email, referencing the Delaware-based holding company. “As such, we would need to edit the Transfer of Share Agreement to reflect the transfer of 75,000 common shares to the LLC.” Podesta’s membership on the board of directors of Joule Unlimited was first revealed in research from Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President Peter Schweizer. In the report, tilted, “From Russia with Money: Hillary Clinton, the Russian Reset, and Cronyism,” it’s reveled that Podesta joined the Joule Unlimited board in June 2011. “The disclosure that Clinton Chair John Podesta transferred his shares in Putin-backed Joule Unlimited to an anonymous holding company when he joined the Obama Administration is extremely concerning,” said Donald Trump Senior Communications Advisor Jason Miller in a statement. Podesta failed to fully disclose his position on Joule Unlimited’s board of directors and include it in his federal financial disclosures, as required by law, before he became President Obama’s senior adviser. “Because the holding company is completely anonymous, we do not know whether or not he still has deep financial ties to Vladimir Putin and his regime,”

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To: Anti-Hillary

I could swear I saw this story several months ago. Not from an email leak I don’t think, but from some other source claiming Podesta was on the board of a Russian energy company. Then, when Trump’s manager resigned I wondered why this didn’t hurt Podesta as well but never saw any follow up. Not surprising I guess considering the Media is covering up and whitewashing anything that could damage Hillary’s brand. But still, I don’t think this is a brand-new bombshell I am certain I have seen this news reported before.


61 posted on 10/13/2016 5:48:23 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: PrairieLady2
Everything she says can be traced right back to her own self.

Vox Day has a book about the principle, called "SJWs always lie". Check it out on Amazon.com.

His principles are:

1) SJWs always lie.

2) SJWs always project.

3) SJWs always double down.

62 posted on 10/13/2016 5:58:29 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Terry Mross

Exactly....they played Putin and feathered they nest with....Obama: “I’ll have more flexibility after the election.”

They, Obama-it’s, love old school communism, that’s not Putin.

Said it here before, Bernie Sanders visited the USSR on his honey moon, Bill De’blazio went to Cuba one his honey moon...you know they wanted to shoot someone in the nape of the neck in the basement of a prison, in the name of the Prolateriate, it would have made their trip. And, that’s Obama.

That’s not Putin, flat taxes and the Russian streets are free market anarchy.

Putin knows communism and rejects it. There is no higher contempt for leftists.


63 posted on 10/13/2016 5:59:59 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: doug from upland
Simmer down, Doug.

Trumpslide is coming.

You need to look at the INTERNALs of the polls, and where the two candidates are appearing.

The day after the debate, Hillary went to Dearbornistan Detroit to talk about Michele Obama.

Trump was playing to record crowds in PA.

And look at the utter baldfaced lie today that Trump was pulling out of VA entirely. No, he was shifting some workers to NC which had early voting start today.

Now, if you take the line (as I do) that liberals always project, that speaks volumes about the state of her campaign.

Look at the press attacking the LA Times poll and that one 19-year old black guy: they are desperate for it to be suppressed that Trump has moved from the 16% range to 24% of African Americans: once he gets a preference cascade *there*, they cannot use the voter fraud in inner cities to steal PA and MI and OH and others.

64 posted on 10/13/2016 6:04:36 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Anti-Hillary

I expect should the winds blow unfavorably Podesta will flee the country.


65 posted on 10/13/2016 6:10:26 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (just a conspiracy theory, no facts behind the above post.)
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To: PrairieLady2

I think you are on the right track....

Ok…

Between what happened in Kazakhstan and the States, the Clinton Fraudation ends ups up with approx. $175 million in their bank account. All they had to do was convince Hitlery as Secretary of State to sign off and forgo the “strategic commodity” requirements when they facilitated a deal so that the Russians could end up owning approx. 20% of total US uranium production. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/05/02/peter-schweizer-uranium-deal-win-win-win-clintons-canadian-financiers-vladimir-putin-losers-american-people/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-23/how-putin-s-russia-gained-control-of-a-u-s-uranium-mine

So now there is this news that the company that Podesta sits on the board of (another energy company) was gifted 75,000 common shares from a Russian government fund….as someone here said, Podesta is Putin’s business partner.

Meanwhile we have Hitlery going after Trump for what he said about Putin’s style of leadership all the while that she is doing her own sabre-rattling against the Kremlin. Hmmm….. appearances matter doncha know?

Today we have accusations of the Russians being behind the email releases....in fact CNN says that there is irrefutable ‘proof’. More appearances mattering….

Connect the dots folks…it sure looks to me that this is just a dense smoke screen for what is really going on…. obscuring a deal cooked up between Putin and the Clintons.

Just wondering…….. http://www.jouleunlimited.com/ So Joule Inc. is a CO2 to fuels company? I wonder how much government money got shipped to this company…..


66 posted on 10/13/2016 6:13:05 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: thinden
Re post# 7: october surprise could be... Bernie “pivoting” & endorsing trump!!

#Basement Dwellers Unite!

67 posted on 10/13/2016 6:21:32 PM PDT by Mark (Obama Care is now DEMOCRAT CARE)
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To: thinden
Re post# 7: october surprise could be... Bernie “pivoting” & endorsing trump!!

More likely Jill Stein, but just as good.

68 posted on 10/13/2016 6:30:38 PM PDT by Religion and Politics (Time for Trump and supporters to show their strength and resolve.)
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To: Anti-Hillary

Hillary kept harping on some Trump connection with Russia during the second debate, alleging that he had dealings with Putin and that they were interfering in the election, and that it was not to help her, as if the idea were preposterous. Trump dismissed it out of hand, saying that he had no such dealings, and had no idea what the Russians were doing, if anything, vis a vis the US elections, and she appeared noticeably disappointed. Is it possible that this was a red herring to mask her own Putin connection by deflecting the charge to Trump?


69 posted on 10/13/2016 6:37:07 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Anti-Hillary

Bookmark!!!!


70 posted on 10/13/2016 7:11:23 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Anti-Hillary

.... Damn ..... (Sorry for the potty mouth) .... With all of this newly revealed ammunition against the Clinton’s and the entire Democrat Party ..... Trump better slay the entire Establimentarian Political Machine and the reputation of Both Clintons and next debate!!!


71 posted on 10/13/2016 7:15:37 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: Anti-Hillary
Another individual involved in the KLINTOON CRIME FAMILY. This never stops, but the MSM is more interested in DJT locker room talk and a professional NYSlimes made-up video of a 30 year old groping on an airplane.

KLINTOON is their next Pres because they all own her and there will be only one group that can stop her - WE THE PEOPLE. Don't look for any of the establishment elites or organizations/branches of the Govt to stop her - we already see how the KLINTOON crime family bought off Comey and Lynch.

Do we take to the streets if the KLINTOON family is successful in cheating her into her palace?
72 posted on 10/13/2016 7:24:42 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Cheerio
These traitors are being smoked out through Wikileakes.....though this vile creature we have known about for a long time!


73 posted on 10/13/2016 7:27:22 PM PDT by caww
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To: wattojawa

The people accusing Trump of having business deals in Russia are the ones who have business deals in Russia. Can’t make this stuff up!


74 posted on 10/13/2016 7:54:19 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: ryderann

Podesta sat on the board of Joulle along with Senior Russian officials

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/08/01/report-hillary-clintons-campaign-mgr-john-podesta-sat-board-company-bagged-35-million-putin-connected-russian-govt-fund-2/


75 posted on 10/13/2016 8:08:25 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: HollyB

As part of her duties during the so-called Russian reset, then-Sec. of State Hillary Clinton led the way on U.S. involvement in a Russian government technology initiative that was intended to be the Russian equivalent of America’s Silicon Valley known as Skolkovo

According to the GAI report, Clinton’s State Dept. recruited U.S. tech giants like Google, Cisco, Intel. Indeed, out of 28 U.S., European, and Russian companies that participated in Skolkovo, 17 of them were Clinton Foundation donors or paid for speeches by Bill Clinton.

However, as involvement in Skolkovo by Clinton cronies increased, so, too, did the danger for the technology coming out of the Russian tech mecca to be used for Russian military purposes.

2014, the FBI issued what it called “an extraordinary warning” to several technology companies involved with Skolkovo. “The [Skolkovo] foundation may be a means for the Russian government to access our nation’s sensitive or classified research development facilities and dual-use technologies with military and commercial application,” warned Lucia Ziobro, the assistant special agent at the FBI’s Boston office. She added: “The FBI believes the true motives of the Russian partners, who are often funded by the government, is to gain access to classified, sensitive, and emerging technology from the companies.”

Still, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta sat on the executive board of a small energy company called Joule Unlimited. Joule, too, received the FBI letter warning about Skolkovo

Podesta was on the board of three Joule entities, but only listed two on his disclosure; the most important entity, Joule Stichting, he did not lDisclose.

“But the flows of funds from Russia during the ‘reset’ to Podesta-connected entities apparently didn’t end with Joule Energy,

Who was funding Sea Change Foundation? According to tax records, Sea Change Foundation at the time was receiving a large infusion of funds from a mysterious Bermuda-based entity called ‘Klein, Ltd.’…Who owns Klein? It is impossible to say exactly, given corporate secrecy laws in Bermuda. But the registered agent and lawyers who set up the offshore entity are tied to a handful of Russian business entities including Troika Dialog, Ltd. Leadership includes Ruben Vardanyan, an ethnic Armenian who is a mega oligarch in Putin’s Russia. Vardanyan also served on the board of Joule Energy with


76 posted on 10/13/2016 8:40:57 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Anti-Hillary

The Clinton Foundation is buried in Russian money

http://www.g-a-i.org/u/2016/08/Report-Skolkvovo-08012016.pdf


77 posted on 10/13/2016 8:50:43 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: ryderann

My former congressman owned a bank in Russia with his partner, a former KGB guy.


78 posted on 10/13/2016 8:59:10 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: ryderann

Podesta did while working for the Obama Administration.


79 posted on 10/13/2016 9:04:24 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: ptsal

The Gore family’s links with Occidental date back to the vice president’s father’s close relationship with Armand Hammer, the oil baron who created Occidental and who often found himself in the limelight of controversy because of his extensive investments in the old Soviet Union. When J. Edgar Hoover had accused Hammer of being a communist agent in 1962, Senator Gore defended him on the Senate floor, and after performing other favors for the company over the years, Gore Senior, after losing his Senate seat in 1970, took a job with an Occidental subsidiary for an annual salary of $500,000

The vice president inherited his father’s relationship with Hammer — as well as taking over a piece of land the oil magnate had sold his father in a lucrative sweetheart deal — and dined regularly with the oilman in Washington during the ‘80s. Hammer was Gore’s guest at the Reagan inaugural in 1984, and the then-senator also got him a prime seat at the Bush inaugural four years later.

Although Hammer died in 1990, Occidental’s CEO, Ray Irani, appears to have enjoyed a similarly chummy relationship with Gore. Indeed, according to the New York Times, the traditionally Republican firm gave heavily to the Democrats in the ‘90s, starting with a $100,000 contribution to the Presidential Inauguration Committee in 1992. Occidental is further reported to have forked over $50,000 in soft money after a phone solicitation from Gore in 1996 and a further $100,000 after Irani spent two nights in the Lincoln Bedroom that same year.

Skulduggery? None even vaguely proven. Irani, being a good businessman, gives to the Bush campaign, too. But the Occidental connection may nonetheless be a little unfortunate when Gore is seeking to make hay out of the accusation that his opponents are “of big oil, for big oil and by big oil.”


80 posted on 10/13/2016 9:21:12 PM PDT by topspinr
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