Clinton Foundation Failed to Disclose 1100 Foreign Donations

[amborin]

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-04-29/clinton-foundation-failed-to-disclose-1-100-foreign-donations

Hillary Clinton’s presidential run is prompting new scrutiny of the Clintons’ financial and charitable affairs—something that’s already proved problematic for the Democratic front runner, given how closely these two worlds overlap.

Last week, the New York Times examined Bill Clinton’s relationship with a Canadian mining financier, Frank Giustra, who has donated millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation and sits on its board.

Clinton, the story suggests, helped Giustra’s company secure a lucrative uranium-mining deal in Kazakhstan and in return received “a flow of cash” to the Clinton Foundation, including previously undisclosed donations from the company’s chairman totaling $2.35 million.

Giustra strenuously objects to how he was portrayed. “It’s frustrating,” he says. And because the donations came in through the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (CGEP)—a Canadian affiliate of the Clinton Foundation he established with the former president—he feels doubly implicated by the insinuation of a dark alliance.

“We’re not trying to hide anything,” he says.

There are in fact 1,100 undisclosed donors to the Clinton Foundation, Giustra says, most of them non-U.S. residents who donated to CGEP. “All of the money that was raised by CGEP flowed through to the Clinton Foundation—every penny—and went to the [charitable] initiatives we identified,” he says.

The reason this is a politically explosive revelation is because the Clinton Foundation promised to disclose its donors as a condition of Hillary Clinton becoming secretary of state.

Shortly after Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, the Clinton Foundation signed a “memorandum of understanding” with the Obama White House agreeing to reveal its contributors every year. The agreement stipulates that the “Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative” (as the charity was then known) is part of the Clinton Foundation and must follow “the same protocols.”

It hasn’t.

[Politicalboi]

1. Oh No's!!!!!!!!

But they believe in transparency and all.

I want to see Bill and Hill in a BIG house, but NOT the White House. I hope this shit "berns" them.

[amborin]

14. +1000000

[CorporatistNation]

32. What "Else" Did They fail To Disclose?

They enjoy doing the "laundry" that's fer sure...

[amborin]

35. lots, and great video

[AzDar]

2. How Slushy...

[jillan]

3. But but..... Bernie!!

[azmom]

4. This article goes into the details.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=0

[amborin]

13. thanks for the link!

[MrMickeysMom]

33. Uranium investors, eh?

SEPTEMBER 2005
Frank Giustra, a Canadian mining financier, wins a major uranium deal in Kazakhstan for his company, UrAsia, days after visiting the country with former President Bill Clinton.
2006
Uranium
One
Mr. Giustra donates $31.3 million to the Clinton Foundation.

[EdwardBernays]

5. it's much worse than all of that

Not only did they obscure those 1100 donors, but they openly lied about why:

Clinton Foundation’s misleading claim about Canadian laws on donor info

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/04/29/clinton-foundations-misleading-claim-about-canadian-laws-on-donor-info/

The Clinton's have a habit about lying about Giustra as well...

New York Times story claimed Bill Clinton tried to deny meeting linked to 'Clinton Cash' scandals

A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter claims that former President Bill Clinton falsely denied hosting a meeting with Kazakh officials when she tried to write a story that involved his foundation several years ago.

Jo Becker, who works on the newspaper's investigative desk, said Clinton only confirmed the meeting took place after she informed him there were photographs.

That article revisited some of her earlier reporting and included information from the upcoming book "Clinton Cash," which is generating widespread headlines amid a flurry of reports suggesting it will raise serious questions about Clinton's family foundation.

The donor in question is Canadian mining executive Frank Giustra, a longtime friend of the former president who has given tens of millions to the Clinton Foundation in the past few years. (A couple of hours after the NYT story was published, Giustra issued a defiant statement. We've included that below.)

Becker initially wrote about the February 2007 meeting between Clinton, Giustra, and executives from the state-owned nuclear company Kazatomprom in 2008. The gathering took place at Clinton's home in Chappaqua, New York.

"When I first contacted both the Clinton foundation — Mr. Clinton's spokesman — and Mr. Giustra, they denied any such meeting ever took place," Becker recalled in footage aired by Fox News on Thursday.

However, Becker said Clinton and Giustra both changed their stories after she confronted them with evidence to the contrary.

"And then when we told them, 'Well we already talked to the head of Kazatomprom, who not only told us all about the meeting, but actually has a picture of him and Bill at the home in Chappaqua, and that he proudly displayed on his office wall.' They then acknowledged that yes, the meeting had taken place," Becker continued in the television interview.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/nyt-reporter-clinton-lied-about-meeting-2015-4?r=US&IR=T

[azmom]

10. Busted.

They had pictures. What liars.

[AgerolanAmerican]

12. not looking forward to another 7 months of Clinton sleaze drippings

please, voters yet to vote - spare us the misery

[amborin]

15. great info, thanks! would be a great OP

[EdwardBernays]

17. You should!

I have made a few OPs with that info already.

[amborin]

20. ok!

[Baobab]

29. 1100 is a lot

how much money?

[smiley]

6. Yet more ammo for the GOP to use against her if she wins the nom.

[Land of Enchantment]

7. Oh boy. And I bet there are a lot more rocks to turn over. nt

[amborin]

21. lots more

[nc4bo]

8. And some are mak7ng a BFD over Sanders' tax returns LMAO!

My gawd.

[azmom]

9. Uranium One is now suing the USA.

https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2014/11/28/foreign-us-mining-groups-sue-the-usa-over-uranium-mining-ban-near-grand-canyon-appeal/

Subsequent to failure in their attempt to overturn a uranium mining ban for the area near the Grand Canyon, groups representing uranium mining interests are appealing. What part of no do these bullies not understand? This is one reason that the US government does so many wrong things, for if they do the right thing they get sued and big corporations have deep pockets. A list of companies represented by one of the Mining Associations taking legal action against the US government, i.e. taxpayers, to overturn the uranium mining ban is at the bottom of the page, to facilitate boycott of those who waste taxpayer monies on abusive lawsuits, which in this case also involves degradation of the environment, (at every stage of the uranium cycle). They include Uranium One, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Russian government owned Rosatom, who is still mining uranium in the USA, untouched by sanctions.

[amborin]

16. unbelievable!

[NCjack]

11. The Clinton Canadian Washing Machine (CCWM). The money comes into the Canadian door of the

CCWM. The donors are "unknown". The CCWM rotates, gyrates, spins, and dries the money -- destroying the source tags. Next, the "clean" money pops out in the Clintons' bag in the USA. No knows how this happens, only that the money was inserted into the machine by a Canadian affiliate of the Clinton Foundation. What a marvelous machine. I was impressed with the Romney machine, but the CCWM seems so much freer of actual human hands and paper work -- and those pesky fees seem to be eliminated, generating no paper trail. "We're not trying to hide anything," he (Guistra) says. I have an idea for the IRS. Make the Clinton Foundation send the money back to Canada, have the source tags reattached, and send it to the Clinton Foundation through the banks so the IRS can log the sources. Just like what would happen to me if I attempted to transfer large sums of money across the US-CAN border.

[FlatBaroque]

18. I hope President Bernie makes sure that we do not exclusively "look forward"

I want to look backward as well, and put an end to the Clinton criminal enterprise.

[amborin]

19. kick

[Nanjeanne]

22. But but but - she's been vetted already. The Republicans won't be able to touch her!!!!!

[amborin]

25. and, no one has really even started to do opposition research on her

[Jarqui]

28. GOP set up an office around in the latter part of 2014 for the primary purpose

of doing opposition research on Hillary.

The Best Way to Vilify Hillary Clinton? G.O.P. Spends Heavily to Test It

In rooms like this one around the country, an expensive and sophisticated effort is underway to test and refine the most potent lines of attack against Mrs. Clinton, and, ultimately, to persuade Americans that she does not deserve their votes. While the general election is 16 months away, Republican groups are eager to begin building a powerful case against the woman they believe will be the Democratic nominee, and to infuse the public consciousness with those messages.
...
One problem in developing negative messages about Mrs. Clinton, Republican strategists have found, is that she and her husband have survived so many controversies by dismissing them as partisan attacks. So the Republican organizations are seeking to develop lines of attack that resonate more deeply or raise unsettling questions about Mrs. Clinton’s character.
...
The ads highlighted Mrs. Clinton’s deleting of emails from her private account, tried to tie her to President Obama, portrayed her as distant from middle-class Americans and sought to persuade women that they do not need to support her because of her gender.

But many, essentially, struck the same theme, depicting Mrs. Clinton as untrustworthy, an image that even Democrats supporting the Clinton campaign acknowledge is a weakness. About 57 percent of Americans do not believe Mrs. Clinton is honest and trustworthy, according to a CNN poll released June 2.

“She’s got an open wound, and part of our job is to pour salt in it,” said Glen Bolger, a co-founder of Public Opinion Strategies, the Republican polling firm that conducted the focus groups.
...

Pretty long article laying out what they'd been doing for 8-9 months to nail Hillary.

That article is dated July 11, 2015. They've been at this a long time. By the time the election rolls around they'll have spent two years doing "opposition research on" Hillary.

The GOP will be launching the most prepared and well financed attack on a candidate in US history if Hillary gets the nomination.

If Bernie gets the nomination, all that Rovian effort goes up in smoke.

[amborin]

34. thanks for posting all that info! what a disaster she would be

[AzDar]

23. Can't wait for the onslaught of posts from $Hill supporters claiming, they too , forgot to disclose

thousands of foreign donations to their slushy Foundations...I mean, doesn't everybody do that?

[closeupready]

24. Disgusting.

[amborin]

38. very

[Rosa Luxemburg]

26. The Clinton's glass house

the Clinton's shouldn't throw stones

[panader0]

27. Where are all the HRC supporters who hated my OP?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511653054

The Clinton Foundation is a slush fund and a racket. The dirt and slime is just beginning to ooze out.

[Autumn]

30. I imagine Maddie was traveling over there and sending Hill a dollar at every stop.

So that's really not a lot of money,

[BillZBubb]

31. Who needs Panama? The Clintons cooked up their own scam.

Private server. Private graft pipeline.

If, heaven forbid, Hillary does get elected, the republicans are going to go after the Clinton Foundation like cat goes for a mouse.

[jfern]

36. The Canadian Clinton Foundation is used for money laundering

because Canada doesn't require reporting.

[amborin]

39. good question, my exact thoughts

[amborin]

43. yes, it is, money laundering and graft

[B2G]

37. I've said it before. I have to wonder

If this is why the FBI investigation is taking so long.

They used the same server.

[amborin]

41. this might be the explanation

[Avalon Sparks]

40. Typical sign of corruption

[Cheese Sandwich]

42. too corrupt.