The factor that makes the cattle futures scandal relevant is that Hillary Clinton received her trading advice from Tyson Food’s outside counsel. Tyson was a major agricultural producer in Arkansas and had numerous issues that Attorney General and later Governor Bill Clinton could affect.
One such issue involved enforcement of environmental regulations affecting Tyson’s chicken-processing plants... In 1977, the state pollution control agency reissued the license for Tyson's Green Forest plant on the condition that the company meet with city officials to work out a plan for treating its wastes. But the state never enforced the order, and in May 1983, the waste from the plant seeped into the town's drinking water. Residents became ill, and 15 months later Governor Clinton declared the town a disaster area.
During Mr. Clinton's tenure in Arkansas, Tyson benefited from a variety of state actions, including $9 million in government loans, the placement of company executives on important state boards and favorable decisions on environmental issues.”
Tyson appears to have obtained these results for what looks like a bribe delivered though Hillary Clinton’s commodities account. To quote the company’s former chairman: politics is “a series of unsentimental transactions between those who need votes and those who have money.”
https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2016/02/02/Why-37-Year-Old-Clinton-Financial-Scandal-Still-Relevant
Walmart and Tysons are the 800 lb gorillas of the Arkansas economy.
Tysons has even more of a constituency among the electorate there, as chicken farming for Tyson is a major part of their agricultural sector (they also grow a lot of rice).
IIRC, that ‘commodity investment’ was for only ONE WEEK-—Not one year. She invested $1000 on Monday & got paid
$100,000 on Friday for ‘cattle futures’. NO ONE ELSE who was trading in commodities that week in the USA got ANY PAYOUTS even lost to 1% of that..
It was a payoff-—plain & simple.
IIRC, that ‘commodity investment’ was for only ONE WEEK-—Not one year. She invested $1000 on Monday & got paid
$100,000 on Friday for ‘cattle futures’. NO ONE ELSE who was trading in commodities that week in the USA got ANY PAYOUTS even close to 1% of that..
It was a payoff-—plain & simple.