Clinton Foundation Put On Watch List Of Suspicious ‘Charities’
“This decision wasn’t made because of the Clinton Foundation’s remarkably lucrative sideline as a uranium superstore for Russian strongmen, but because its finances are opaque and dishonest, and because such a tiny amount of the money it rakes in actually goes to charitable endeavors. “The Clinton family’s mega-charity took in more than $140 million in grants and pledges in 2013 but spent just $9 million on direct aid,” notes the New York Post. “The group spent the bulk of its windfall on administration, travel, and salaries and bonuses, with the fattest payouts going to family friends.”
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“That her candidacy is announced without calling for
any particular policies underscores the fact that the election is not about the
American people deciding the course of policy, but rather the vetting of
candidates to serve the interest of the financial oligarchy.”
“There is, of course, no acknowledgment that Clinton was part
of an administration that oversaw and continues to oversee the greatest
transfer of wealth from the bottom to “those at the top” in US history.”
Hillary
under siege as Clinton Foundation's donors and Bill's speaking fees overlap
with companies her State Department helped – including Russian nuclear
interests – and now the foundation will re-file its tax returns
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Hillary
Clinton seen as honest and trustworthy by just 38 per cent of Americans, new
poll shows
New headaches
include revelations about foreign funds flowing into the Clintons' family
foundation while she was secretary of state
$2.35 million
came from family foundation of company chairman involved in selling Canadian
uranium company to Russian state-owned firm
Hillary
helped approve that $610 million sale in 2010, which gave Vladimir
Putin-linked company control over one-fifth of America's uranium
Bill Clinton
received $26 million in speaking fees from foundation donors, including
$500,000 from an investment bank tied to Putin and the Kremlin
Chelsea
Clinton defended the foundation that now bears her name, saying it's 'among the
most transparent' philanthropies in the US
Hillary Clinton's newborn presidential
campaign is reeling from new financial links between her family foundation and
companies that benefited from her stewardship of the U.S. State Department.
On a day when a new Quinnipiac University
poll found only 38 per cent of Americans believe she is honest and trustworthy,
the leading Democratic Party candidate for president has a mess to clean up.
Part of it will involve the Bill, Hillary and
Chelsea Clinton Foundation re-filing some of its annual tax returns to correct
errors in how it has reported income from foreign governments.
The murky picture also includes tens of
millions of dollars Bill Clinton collected in speaking fees from companies that
saw their fortunes rise because of U.S. State Department actions while his wife
ran the agency.
In one case a foundation run by the chairman
of Uranium One, a nuclear energy company tied to Russia, gave the Clintons'
family philanthropy millions while Hillary's State Department gave its stamp of
approval to the company's purchase of U.S. uranium.
The Russian state atomic agency Rosatom
purchased a majority stake in the Vancouver-based company in a years-long
process that unfolded from 2009 to 2013 – the same years Mrs. Clinton was
America's secretary of state.
The executive, Ian Telfer, gave the Clinton
Foundation $2.35 million during the same time through his family's Fernwood
Foundation.
Bill Clinton, the former U.S. president, also
received one of his highest speaking fees, $500,000, in June 2010 in Moscow for
addressing an investment bank linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin and
the Kremlin.
He earned more than $100 million for his
speeches from 2001 to 2013. That number comes from financial disclosure
statements filed by Hillary when she was a U.S. senator and, later, secretary
of state.
An investigation by The New York Times uncovered the connections,
based on interviews and public records in Canada, the U.S. and Russia.
Chelsea Clinton, the former first daughter
whose name is now part of the Clinton Foundation's official moniker, defended
the philanthropy on Thursday in New York City.
The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea
Clinton Foundation does 'important' work and is 'among the most
transparent' of foundations, she claimed during a panel discussion at the
Council on Foreign Relations.
'What the Clinton Foundation has said is that
we will be even more transparent, even though Transparency International and
others have said we're among the most transparent of foundations,' Chelsea, the
foundation's vice chair, said.
'I very much believe that that is the right
policy. That we'll be even more transparent. That to eliminate any questions
while we're in this time, we won't take new government funding, but that the
work will continue as it is.'
Accepting funds from companies tied to
foreign governments presents the appearance of a conflict of interest for the
Clinton Foundation, since it's one avenue through which countries could try to
influence Hillary and extract sweetheart deals from Washington.
The foundation is also under fire for handing
the Internal Revenue Service incomplete or incorrect accounting of how much
money it received from foreign governments.
Reuters reported on Thursday that the Clinton
Foundation and its associated charities will re-file at least five annual tax
returns to correct the mistakes.
The errors involve under-reporting,
over-reporting or misclassifying millions of dollars in donations from foreign
governments.
In 2010, 2011 and 2012, according to Reuters,
the Clinton Foundation reported to the IRS that it received zero dollars from
foreign and U.S. governments. That number stood out because it reported tens of
millions in foreign government contributions in the preceding years.
Foreign governments had continued to give
tens of millions of dollars toward the foundation's work on climate change and
economic development. The foundation listed the donors on its publicly
available donor lists, but omitted them in its tax filings.
Hillary Clinton is seeing a flurry of new
scrutiny applied to her years as secretary of state now that she has announced
a 2016 presidential run.
Her chief female Republican rival, former
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, said Thursday that alleged links between the
Clinton Foundation, former president Bill Clinton's speaking fees and Mrs.
Clinton's leadership at State are disturbing.
'It's the Clinton way: raking in millions
from foreign governments behind closed doors while making promises about
transparency that they never intended to keep,' Fiorina said in a statement.
'Now they're scrambling to refile their taxes
and account for her decisions as Secretary of State.'
The Russian uranium story is one piece of a
larger puzzle.
When Rosatom purchased 51 per cent of Uranium
One, which controls a reported one-fifth of the uranium made in the US, the
reported $610 million sale needed to be approved by a committee of government
agencies, including the State Department.
Committee on Foreign Investment in the United
States approved the majority ownership deal in 2010.
Jose Fernandez, a former assistant secretary
of state, was the principal State Department representative on the committee,
and said that Clinton did not intervene with his work.
No one 'has ever produced a shred of evidence
supporting the theory that Hillary Clinton ever took action as secretary of
state to support the interests of donors to the Clinton Foundation,' according
to foundation spokesman Brian Fallon.
He said that is was 'utterly baseless' to say
that Clinton helped push the deal through while her foundation received a
windfall in donations.
When Clinton joined the Obama Administration
as Secretary of State, she signed an agreement saying that the Clinton
Foundation would not receive money from foreign governments and disclose all
donors.
However, the donations from Uranium One's
Telfer reveal that it was still accepting undisclosed donations from private
individuals whose businesses and interests aligned with governments such as
Russia or businesses.
Sixty companies that lobbied the State
Department when Hillary Clinton was Secretary donated $26 million to the
foundation, at the time run by her husband, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The Clinton Foundation only reported that
Telfer gave it $250,000, though tax records reviewed by The New York Times show
that Telfer's Fernwood Foundation gave $1 million in 2009, $250,000 in 2010,
$600,000 in 2011 and $500,000 in 2012.
Telfer said that his donations were to
support his friend Frank Giustra, who has deep ties to the Clintons and once
benefited from Bill's presence on a business trip to Kazakhstan.
Up to $5.6 million may have come from other
individuals associated with Uranium One.
The revelations about possible connections
between the Clinton Foundation and Hillary's work in the State Department come
as more information has been gathered about how the charity lined the pockets
of one of America's most powerful political families.
Bill Clinton has made a total of $26 million
in speakers fees from donors to the Clinton Foundation, according to a report
in The Washington Post.
The former president has received more than
$100 million in speaking fees since leaving office, though how much of that was
from organizations that also donated to his foundation has not previously been
known.
Some of the biggest donors to the foundation
are financial institutions Goldman Sachs, Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank and
Citigroup, which personally paid Bill Clinton $3 million in speaking
fees.
His June 2010 speech to leading Russian
officials at an event for Renaissance Capital netted him $500,000.
Clinton met with Vladimir Putin, at the time
Russia's Prime Minister, during his visit.
All of the business dealings linked to the
Clinton Foundation took place during the Obama Administration's 'reset' in US
relations with Russia.
Bill Clinton also engaged in activities in
the post-Soviet world not directly tied to his foundation.
In 2005 he flew to Kazakhstan with a Canadian
uranium mining financier Frank Giustra and met the country's despotic president
Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Clinton's appearance is seen as helping
Giustra secure a deal to start his UrAsia uranium company in Kazakhstan, which
would later merge with Uranium One.
Giustra would donate $31.3 million to the Clinton
Foundation in 2006 and helped start the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth
Initiative.
Russia would ultimately benefit from the deal
and Clinton's involvement, and was able to secure more uranium production in
its own backyard when took majority control of Uranium One in 2010 and 100 per
cent control in 2013.
Rosatom said that it would not export any of
the uranium out of the United States, though a rancher at the nuclear material
facility in Wyoming said that the uranium is often taken for processing in
Canada.
News of the Clinton Foundation's ties to
uranium executives comes after criticism of the Clinton's ties to additional
Eastern European money, from the Ukrainian oligarch that became one of their
foundation's biggest donors.
Victor Pinchuk, the fourth richest man in
Ukraine, was found to have done business with Iranian government despite US
sanctions against the Middle Eastern country when he sold their oil and gas
pipes in 2011 and 2012, according to Newsweek.
Many of the recent revelations have come from
a book called 'Clinton Cash', written by investigative journalist Peter
Schweizer.
Supporters of Hillary Clinton's fledgling
presidential campaign say that the book is a partisan conservative attack.
A spokesman for the campaign said that the
Uranium One deal went through the normal approval process and that Schweizer's
book is 'twisting previously known facts into absurd conspiracy theories.'
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the
United States also includes representatives from most large arms of government,
such as the Justice Department, Department of Commerce and Department of
Defense.
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HILLARY CLINTON: A dedicated disciple of
OBAMANOMICS – Why else would his
banksters invest so much in her???
OBAMANOMICS – Why else would his
banksters invest so much in her???
“That her candidacy is announced without calling for any particular policies underscores the fact that the election is not about the American people deciding the course of policy, but rather the vetting of candidates to serve the interest of the financial oligarchy.”
“There is, of course, no acknowledgment that Clinton was part of an administration that oversaw and continues to oversee the greatest transfer of wealth from the bottom to “those at the top” in US history.”
Hillary has declared bankster looting will see even greater rewards from her Administration!
Hillary has declared bankster looting will see even greater rewards from her Administration!
“In reality, the settlement falls far short of holding JPMorgan accountable for its fraudulent sale of mortgage-backed assets, which netted the bank tens of billions of dollars in profits while exacerbating the sub-prime mortgage crash that led to over ten million foreclosures in the US and a global economic downturn that thrust many millions more into unemployment and poverty.”
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CLINTON: From selling overnights at the White House, she’s become a multi-continent
influence peddler.
“Hillary Clinton takes a course of action that benefits
those donors, in many cases, I think, outlined in the book, she is reversing
course on policy prescriptions.”
“Schweizer said he had found “a pattern of behavior…the
proof is, you look at a series of actions in which money flows to the Clintons,
either through speaking fees or Clinton Foundation donors.”