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By all accounts, it was the most popular gala the Lady Taverners had ever held. Over 1,000 people packed the Park Lane Hilton in London on Oct. 30, 2009, with the crowd overflowing into the hallways, to listen to President Bill Clinton speak on the power of giving.
While Clinton’s speech helped raise a substantial sum for the prominent cricket charity, his staggering $290,000 speaking fee was not covered by the group, according to organizers. The fee also was not covered by “World Management Limited,” the marketing company Hillary Clinton listed as the payment source in her federal financial filings.
It was bankrolled by a wealthy British businessman named Robert Whitton—a name you won’t find included in the Clintons’ public disclosure forms.
A review by the Washington Free Beacon found that Hillary Clinton often listed small foreign speaking firms as the sources of her husband’s lecture payments in her Senate and State Department disclosures, even though the actual paychecks came from undisclosed third parties.
In certain cases, these funders had interests that intersected with the U.S. State Department. Whitton, a real estate mogul, had business pending before UNESCO, an international agency that received a quarter of its funding from the State Department.
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
(Score: 5, Informative) by jmorris on Friday July 22 2016, @06:24AM
She knew the private server was illegal and would cause problems for her if/when it was discovered. Why did she do it then? So she could destroy the evidence of the crooked crap she was using the Secretary of State position for of course. Follow the money. She risked being caught in a crime because she feared being caught out in far worse crimes. The Foundation is at the heart of it, it was their private slush fund, the holding tank for their minions in an Administration in Waiting.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Hairyfeet on Friday July 22 2016, @09:59AM
Not to mention the Haiti stink. Just look up "Clinton Foundation Haiti controversy" where over a billion was given for Haiti relief to the Clinton Foundation...and nobody can find any evidence a dime actually made it there. If this is typical of the CF? You've got one hell of a money laundering operation over there with no way to tell who got what, where it went, or who benefited.
When you start looking into how much went in VS how much went out? Either the Clintons are just sitting on a shitload of cash, we're talking billions just sitting there, or somebody is making out like a fricking bandit and I would guess that someone is the Clintons.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Friday July 22 2016, @11:18AM
The Haiti take was nowhere near a billion. It was $60 million. Maybe the in-kind contributions would tally higher, but that's all the corporations inflating figures for taking tax-write-downs on equipment they couldn't sell in the downmarket it was at the time. The $60 million was placed in the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, where it funds the salaries of Clinton and Bush cronies and occasionally pays consultants' fees to other Clinton and Bush cronies. The Clintons themselves don't take any money from it.
That's what happened to the cash. What happened to the in-kind contributions is they were incompetently handled, delivered months and years too late, and were immediately disappeared into the black market and the sticky fingers of government officials in Haiti. That, BTW, is a larger tale of woe that implicates the entire international aid community from the USAID to the Red Cross to the State Department and the various UN relief agencies; because they are all stacked with so many incompetent cronies that nobody there knows even the barest ABCs of logistics or crisis management. Remember that guy, "Heckuva Job!" Brownie that Bush tapped from the Arabian Horse Association to run FEMA, and how badly he fucked up the relief to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina? It's like that.
Most people are too absorbed in tabloid minutiae and the crushing realities of their daily economic situations to grasp how utterly intellectually and morally bereft and benighted the engines of government and industry are, but they ought to because they're parasitically sucking the future out of humanity.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by n1 on Friday July 22 2016, @05:09PM
Generally related:
http://www.thelocal.no/20160704/norways-funding-of-clinton-foundation-under-scrutiny [thelocal.no]
http://charlesortel.com/tag/Clinton%20Foundation [charlesortel.com]
(Score: 4, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Friday July 22 2016, @11:07AM
You're not wrong about the server, but the Foundation is not the heart of it. The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) is the heart of it. Much higher profile, much bigger network of cronies, much more business being transacted there. The Clinton Foundation is more of a PR ruse. It has, oh, a half dozen initiatives funded by wealthy overseas "Friends of Bill." There aren't many funders of those initiatives (at least, not the big $ ones who are buying access), so as the nexus of international Clinton corruption it doesn't serve. What it does is helps to whitewash the image of the Clintons and also the big donors; for example, the guys who fund the South America Initiative (I forget the actual name of it, as anyone would, because the Clintons absolutely suck at branding) are crooked ultra-wealthy from SA whose public images could use help--think Pablo Escobar giving money to an orphanage. The Clintons then use that to give cover to the Goldman Sachses of the world to pay them outrageous speaking fees as kickbacks.
It's quite elaborate, and engineered to launder their corruption under the cover of law.
One further correction: the Foundation is not the holding tank for their minions in an Administration in Waiting. Those people have all passed through hundreds of revolving doors into academia, the media, and every sort of industry in corporate America you can imagine. The people at the heart of the Foundation are the Clinton-dead enders, the D-stringers who were the interns in Bill's Whitehouse who were so lowly they reported to Monica Lewinsky. But it should be noted that all those are Bill's people, not Hillary's people. Hillary has her own lickspittles who are quite separate from Bill's because in reality Hillary and Bill lead quite separate lives. Also, she has far fewer of them because whereas Bill is personable, she is that repellent.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday July 22 2016, @04:33PM
She knew the private server was illegal and would cause problems for her if/when it was discovered. Why did she do it then?
Because it wasn't illegal to use a private server at the time.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @04:58PM
Because it wasn't illegal to use a private server at the time.
We're talking about politics. Facts have no place in this conversation.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday July 22 2016, @08:32PM
Don't bring your dkos talking points here, we know enough about this crap to know better. Nobody else had a thrown together MIcrosoft Exchange Server in their damned basement. Nobody else had a thousand documents ranging from Classified to Top Secret - Special Access Program: NOFORN. Nobody else kept said documents in such an insecure location years beyond their exit from government service. Nobody else incompetently attempted to destroy the evidence when a lawful request for the documents was served. Nobody else had the Director of the FBI lay out all of these crimes in perfectly clear language and then decline to recommend charges.