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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: 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]