[Right Scoop] Shortly after Hillary Clinton left the Obama administration, the State Department quietly took steps to purchase real estate in Nigeria from a firm whose parent company is owned by a major donor to the Clinton Foundation, records obtained by Fox News show.
On March 20, 2013, William P. Franklin, an "international realty specialist" at the State Department, emailed Mary E. Davis, an American diplomat stationed in Africa, instructing her to "put on Post letterhead" an "expression of interest" by the department in purchasing property at Eko Atlantic, a massive real estate development off the coast of Lagos.
Franklin further instructed that the signed letter was to be "delivered to Ronald Chagoury." The draft letter, also obtained by Fox News, was undated and addressed to Chagoury care of his firm South Energyx Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of the larger Chagoury Group that is spearheading the Eko Atlantic real estate venture. The State Department letter sought, among other things, to confirm that the department could proceed with "acquisition of the real property...[at] the asking price of $1,250 per square meter."
Overtures to real estate developers from State Department officials scouting locations for embassies, consulates and other diplomatic facilities would ordinarily not arouse interest. But in this case, the budding transaction ‐ never completed, the department now says ‐ raised eyebrows because Ronald Chagoury is the brother and business partner, in the Chagoury Group, of Gilbert Chagoury, a Lebanese-born businessman whom federal records show has donated between $1 and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation.
No, we’re not surprised, so don’t ask, BUT, it’s one thing to have just opinions about her corruption, and finding real evidence. And this, is real evidence...
| From Instapundit: As somebody said on Twitter, the difference between Hillary and normal people is that when she gets an email from a rich Nigerian proposing a deal, it’s actually from a rich Nigerian, proposing a deal. |
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