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| HRC's State Sponsored Graft Racket Exposed |
| 2016-08-24 |
| [WND] WASHNGTON ‐ Under Hillary Clinton’s leadership, the State Department was run like a mob-run shakedown operation, with more than half the visitors she met with from outside government paying money to the Clinton Family Foundation for the privilege, according to an Associated Press investigation of her calendars. "It’s an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president," reported the largest news-gathering organization in the world. At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, the news agency reported Tuesday. Combined the 85 "donors" contributed as much as $156 million ‐ with 40 donating more than $100,000 and 20 giving more than $1 million, according to the stunning report. AP reports donors who were granted time with Clinton included: an internationally known economist who asked for her help as the Bangladesh government pressured him to resign from a nonprofit bank he ran; a Wall Street executive who sought Clinton’s help with a visa problem; Estee Lauder executives who were listed as meeting with Clinton while her department worked with the firm’s corporate charity to counter gender-based violence in South Africa. The AP report, which represents the first systematic effort to calculate the scope of the intersecting interests of the Clinton Foundation donors and people who met personally with the secretary of state or spoke on the phone, said "the frequency of the overlaps shows the intermingling of access and donations, and fuels perceptions that giving the foundation money was a price of admission for face time with Clinton. Her calendars and emails released as recently as this week describe scores of contacts she and her top aides had with foundation donors." The 154 did not include U.S. federal employees or foreign government representatives. Related story: That’s not all! Hillary helped a crook get $10 million in taxpayer funds for a Haiti scam that left 500 earthquake victims homeless. But, Clinton met with representatives of at least 16 foreign governments that donated as much as $170 million to the Clinton charity, but they were not included in AP’s calculations because such meetings would presumably have been part of her diplomatic duties. The Clinton Foundation’s finances are so messy that the nation’s most influential charity watchdog put it on its "watch list" of problematic nonprofits last month. Meanwhile, an investigation of the Clinton Foundation’s $140 million in grants and pledges in the year 2013 found that only $9 million went to direct aid to charities. The bulk of its revenues went to administration, travel, and salaries and bonuses, with the fattest payouts going to family and friends. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #14 ...I believe that's Putin's position and since wet jobs are out of the question, expect a lot of surprises between now and November. BTW, she looks tired doesn't she? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-08-24 22:42 |
| #13 ...Or they didn't stay bought. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-08-24 18:22 |
| #12 You realize that if there was a quid pro quo system at the State Dept for Clinton donations, it neatly explains why our foreign policy is so screwed up. Nobody bid high enough. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2016-08-24 17:41 |
| #11 Despite the exposed corruption and lies... the donks will still support her. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-08-24 11:59 |
| #10 Meanwhile, an investigation of the Clinton Foundation’s $140 million in grants and pledges in the year 2013 found that only $9 million went to direct aid to charities. The bulk of its revenues went to administration, travel, and salaries and bonuses, with the fattest payouts going to family and friends. Sounds like the Clinton Foundation's favorite charity is the Clintons. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-08-24 11:44 |
| #9 Some will claim ignorance of her crimes. But they are in fact complicit, and cannot claim that they have not been told. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2016-08-24 11:44 |
| #8 This is my flight song I'll plead the 5th song |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-08-24 11:31 |
| #7 Despite the exposed corruption and lies... the donks will still support her. After all, they have their noses in the trough too and like their handouts. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-08-24 10:47 |
| #6 Remember it's not |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-08-24 09:02 |
| #5 There's always the 2nd Amendment option. The founding fathers did not have duck hunting in mind when they put it in the Constitution. The left would like to see the 2nd disappear from the Constitution so they can green light the kinds of crap going on now without any scrutiny or oversight controls. Of course there are often unintended consequences to everything. Al Capone and Idi Amin would have been envious of the slickness and insidiousness way the gnawing away of freedom had been done in such a short time. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-08-24 08:24 |
| #4 Sadly nmu, I believe you have nailed it. It is difficult however, for me to reconcile my association with a people and nation [evidently now a majority] whose belief system has been so corrupted. The phrase "In the world, not of the world" comes to mind. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-08-24 05:57 |
| #3 Nobody who is currently supporting her will change their mind and vote for Trump or anyone else, or will stay home on election day, because of this. Hillary could run against anyone on the planet and they would still vote for her having heard this story. I wish it were otherwise but while people like those of us who visit Rantburg are voting for president to try and put in someone who will do the very few things government SHOULD do well, her supporters are voting for a mercenary who will defend their paychecks and indulgences from the regulatory leviathans, period, stop. It's good to document her corruption and to have some record of our slide into banana republic status but I fear it will affect the outcome in November not one bit. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2016-08-24 05:25 |
| #2 But what do liberal-zombie voters think about this? That's an oxymoron, gorb. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-08-24 05:01 |
| #1 HRC's State Sponsored Graft Racket Exposed Maybe it has. But what do liberal-zombie voters think about this? |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-08-24 00:12 |