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posted by n1 on Friday July 22 2016, @05:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the wild-bill dept.

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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


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @03:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @03:53PM (#378583)

    Funny how all the conservatives who said the Citizens United ruling was about "fair and free speech" suddenly don't like influence peddling now that the "other side" uses it far more than their candidate.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @04:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @04:30PM (#378613)

    Trump and many of his supporters oppose Citizens United. The corporate whores in the Republican party are the ones who oppose Trump.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-04/trump-the-developer-loves-low-interest-rates-trump-the-candidate-sees-a-bubble- [bloomberg.com]