The
name of the game is influence selling and self-enrichment, very big bucks
involved.
The
Clinton Foundation is a money laundering racketeering scheme posing as
a charitable NGO. Bill and Hillary should have prosecuted, convicted and
imprisoned long ago. In America they get away with high crimes no just
societies would tolerate.
Last
year, the
Washington Post
reported the Clinton Foundation “raised close to $2 billion from a
vast global network that includes corporate titans, political donors,
foreign governments and other wealthy interests.”
“Nearly
half of the major donors (and) nearly half of the bundlers from her
2008 campaign” are foundation contributors. Many of the largest
donors are foreign governments.
The
pay to play scheme benefits them greatly. It cuts to the heart of the
Clinton cash scandal. Examples below.
Writing
for Harpers
last November, investigative journalist Ken Silverstein called the
Clintons’ “so-called charitable enterprise…a vehicle to launder
money and to enrich family friends.”
“If
the Justice Department and law enforcement agencies (did) their jobs,
the foundation (would) be closed and its current and past trustees,
who include Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton, (would) be indicted.”
The
Clintons became super-rich by doing what would land ordinary people
in prison - racketeering in violation of RICO legislation.
“(I)t’s
an open secret to anyone remotely familiar with accounting and
regulatory requirements for charities that (their foundation’s)
financial records are deliberately misleading,” Silverstein
explained. The entire operation reflects willful fraud.
If
Hillary succeeds Obama next year, husband Bill said their foundation
no longer will accept corporate and foreign donations, only ones from
US citizens and alleged charities.
The
annual Clinton Global Initiative of influential world leaders will
hold its final meeting next month in New York, regardless of the
presidential election’s outcome.
Bill
said he’ll also resign from the foundation’s board. Hillary
stepped down last year to run for president. What they intend ahead
can’t compensate for the foundation’s pay to play shenanigans up
to now.
Below
is a partial list of donors, a small number of around 1,100 foreign
donors alone, most of their names kept secret.
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Prince
of Abu Dhabi and Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates
Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahayan and the Al Nahayan family of
Abu Dhabi
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$5,000,000
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Access
to HRC at State Dept. and a $500,000 environmental speech by Bill
Clinton given at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi while HRC
was meeting in Washington with Shaikh Abdullah.
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Algeria
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$500,000
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State
clearance for U.S. arms sales to Algeria. Deal included biological
and chemical agents.
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Australia
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$75,000,000
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Strong
State Dept. for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which stands
to be a boon for Australian
multinational
firms.
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Bahrain
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$250,000
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Muted
criticism by State of Bahrain’s abysmal human rights practices.
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Boeing
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$900,000
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State
Dept. clearance for $29 billion arms U.S. arms sale to Saudi
Arabia, including Boeing’s F-15 fighter.
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Brunei
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$5,000,000
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State
Dept. clearance for U.S. weapons sales to Brunei.
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Cameroon
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$100,000
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Influence
buying by the Cameroon government with the Clinton State
Department.
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Canada
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$500,000
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State
Dept. support for Canada’s Keystone XL pipeline, eventually
vetoed by Barack Obama.
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Chagoury
Group
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$5,000,000
in cash and a $1,000,000,000 pledge
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HRC
delayed designating Nigeria’s Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist
organization because of Chagoury Group’s investments and
operations in Nigeria. Chagoury Group
received
the “Sustainable Development Award” from the CGI. Chagooury
helped the family of Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha hide his wealth
stolen from Nigeria’s oil revenues.
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Confederation
of Indian Industry
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$1,000,000
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Access
for Indian businesses to U.S. government officials.
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Corning,
Inc.
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$150,000
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Clinton
arranged for international access for the New York-based firm.
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Dahdaleh,
Victor
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$5,000,000
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Lobbyist
for Bahrain state-owned aluminum company who sought a contract
between the Bahraini firm and the U.S.-owned Alcoa World Alumina.
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Dominican
Republic
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$25,000,000
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Clinton
Foundation board member Rolando Gonzalez’s company InterEnergy
received contracts from Dominican government for wind energy
projects. The firm received Domican President’s Gold Citizen
Award in 2010.
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Fédération
Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
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$100,000
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State
pressure on Justice Dept. to curtail criminal investigation of
FIFA.
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Fernwood
Foundation (Canadian foundation run by Canadian uranium mining
mogul Ian Telfer
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$2,600,000
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Telfer’s
UrAsia and Uranium One Corporations, co-owned with Canadian mining
magnate and “Friend of Bill” Frank Giustra received favorable
uranium mining deals with Kazakhstan and Russia’s ROSATOM and
Kazakhstan’s KAZATOMPROM.
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Flanders,
Government of
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$872,000)
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High-level
access to U.S. government officials by Flemish government
officials and businesses.
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GEMS
Education, Dubai
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$5,600,000
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Bill
Clinton made “honorary chairman” of the Dubai company.
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Germany
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$250,000
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High-level
access to U.S. government officials by German officials and
businessmen.
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Giustra,
Frank (Canadian mining magnate) (Clinton Giustra Enterprise
Partnership/Radcliffe Foundation)
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$31,300,000
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State
soft-peddled threat of the Islamic State because Lafarge had
negotiated with the terrorists to maintain its operations in
ISIL-controlled territory in Syria. arranged favorable deals with
Kazakhstan and its president, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
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Hindustan
Construction Corp. (India)
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$500,000
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Access
for corporate officials to U.S. government officials.
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Ireland
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$158,300,000
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Influence-buying
by Irish government with the Clintons.
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Italy
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$100,000
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Influence
buying by the Italian government with the Clinton State
Department.
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Jamaica
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$100,000
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Digicel
Group, owned by Irish billionaire and Friend of Bill, Denis
O’Brien, received USAID grant for a telecommunications project
in Jamaica. Digicel (Jamaica) paid Bill Clinton $225,000 for a
speech in Kingston. That was in addition to the $100,000 kicked in
by Jamaica to the Clinton Foundation.
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Kuwait
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$10,000,000
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State
Dept. clearance for U.S. weapons sales to Kuwait.
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Lafarge
Group
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$100,000
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State
soft-peddled threat of Islamic State (ISIL) in Syria because
Lafarge had an agreement with ISIL not to interfere in Lafarge
activities in ISIL-controlled territory in Syria. HRC was a
director of Lafarge between 1990 and 1992, at a time when the firm
was selling strategic military materials to Saddam Hussein’s
Iraq.
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Lesotho
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$100,000
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Kickback
from $11.2 million Irish grant to Clinton Foundation for HIV/AIDS
abatement in Lesotho.
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Mittal,
Lakshmi, owner of ArcelorMittal, a major steel company, and board
member of Goldman Sachs
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$5,000,000
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Favorable
opportunities in Kazakhstan, where Mittal is a member of the
Foreign Investment Council of Kazakhstan. Dovetails with Bill
Clinton’s uranium deals with Giustra and Nazarbayev.
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Sheikh
Mohammed H. Al Amoudi (Ethiopian-Saudi billionaire)
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$10,000,000
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Influence-buying
within the Clinton State Dept.
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Monsanto
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$5,000,000
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Advocacy
for GMOs worldwide
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Netherlands
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$10,000,000
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State
helped open up investment opportunities for Dutch firms in Africa.
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New
Zealand
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$1,200,000
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Influence-buying
within the Clinton State Dept.
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Norway
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$89,600,000
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Norwegian
government split up donations to make them look smaller than they
actually were. Norwegian firms received investment opportunities
in the developing world, courtesy of the U.S. Millennium Goals
Corporation.
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Oman
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$5,000,000
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State
clearance for U.S. weapons sales to Oman.
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Papua
New Guinea, Government of
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$100,000
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Influence-buying
within the Clinton State Dept.
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Qatar
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$5,000,000
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State
Dept. approval for U.S. arms sales to Qatar. State pressure on
Justice Dept. to curtail investigation of bribery payments
regarding FIFA and 2022 World Cup host, Qatar.
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Ras
al Khaimah, Emirate of
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$50,000
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Influence-buying
within the Clinton State Dept.
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Rwanda
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$200,000
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Influence-buying
with HRC’s State Department.
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Saudi
Arabia
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$25,000,000
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State
Dept. approval for U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia
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Suzlon
Energy, Ltd. (Amsterdam)
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$5,000,000
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State
and CGI promoted wind turbine solutions in developing countries.
Suzlon, owned by an Indian national, is a leading supplier of wind
turbines.
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Swaziland,
Kingdom of
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$100,000
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Access
to U.S. government officials for Swazi government/private business
leaders.
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Sweden
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$7,200,000
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Access
to U.S. government officials for Swedish government/private
business leaders.
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Switzerland
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$325,000
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Access
to U.S. government officials for Swiss government/private business
leaders.
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Tenerife
Island
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$50,000
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High-level
access to U.S. government officials by Flemish government
officials and businesses.
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Taiwan
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$10,000,000
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State
Dept. approval for U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan.
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United
Arab Emirates
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$5,000,000
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State
Dept. approval for U.S. weapons sales to the UAE.
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United
Kingdom
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$78,000,000
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Access
for key UK officials and UK businesses to key U.S.government
policymakers.
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Victor
Pinchuk Foundation (Ukraine)
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$8,600,000
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Buy
influence with Clinton at State to pressure Ukrainian President
Viktor Yanukovych to free jailed former Prime Minister Yulia
Tymoshenko.
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Walmart,
Inc.
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$5,000,000
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HRC
pressured Indian government to open up India to Walmart, an action
opposed by India’s small retailers.
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