More Evidence of Clintoon “Pay-for-Play”? Sure Looks Like It.
I’ve written before about the Clintoon Foundation’s “interesting” financial dealings. In fact, I’ve observed – on more than one occasion – that appearances indicate there could well be a “pay for play” component to the Clintoon Foundation’s dealings while Clintoon was SECSTATE.
Well the news today to me seems, as Alice said in Wonderland might have put it, “Curioser and curioser”.
While Clintoon was SECSTATE, it turns out her chief-of-staff Cheryl Mills was in reasonably frequent contact with top executives at the Clintoon Foundaton. “Reasonably frequent” here translates to 148 phone messages for Mills from senior Clintoon Foundation executives over a 2 –year period (2010-2012). State Department phone logs show that no other private individual or concern came anywhere close in terms of the number of contacts with Mills over this period.
Further, regarding Mills there’s also this:
Last week, the State Department acknowledged that in June 2012, Mills spent two days traveling to New York to interview job applicants at the foundation. The State Department said Mills “volunteered” to do so, but neither the department nor a spokesman for the Clinton presidential campaign, nor Mills’s attorney, would say whether Mills used annual leave or unpaid days to perform that work – or whether it was done on the taxpayers’ time.
If that was done while Mills was “on the clock” as a Federal employee, that means it was done on taxpayer’s nickle. If so, yeah – IMO that’s a serious problem on multiple levels. Ditto if taxpayers funded Mills’ travel.
Moreover, some additional and previously unreleased email involving Clintoon confidante and protégé Huma Abedin has also come to light. What it contains is similarly quite disturbing.
Specifically, the public interest group Judicial Watch obtained a number of Abedin’s emails recently. Collectively, these emails show a pattern of high-dollar donors to the Clintoon Foundation receiving expedited access to the SECSTATE. Abedin appears to have been instrumental in coordinating that expedited access.
. . . the messages show Clinton aide Huma Abedin “provided influential Clinton Foundation donors special, expedited access to the secretary of state.” The documents include exchanges not previously turned over to the State Department.
You can view the 725 pages of Abedin email recently released by Judicial Watch here if you like.
IMO, that’s disturbing as hell. It appears to bolster the theory that Clintoon was engaging in “quid quo pro” trading of official influence (as SECSTATE) for contributions to the Clintoon foundation.
And that’s not all, either. It appears a total of over 150 non-government officials representing private concerns met with Clintoon while she was SECSTATE. The exact number appears to have been 154.
So, how many of those private individuals have perchance “donated” to the Clintoon Foundation? Glad you asked.
Of those 154 private individuals, 85 – or over 55% of those individuals representing private concerns – also “dontated” to the Clintoon Foundation. At least 40 of those individuals – or nearly 26% –“donated” in excess of $100k. And 20 of them – or roughly 13% – “dontated” $1M or more.
That makes the lower limit for those “dontations” somewhere north of $22M. It’s estimated that the total “dontated” could be over $150M.
One extreme case was that of the the Crown Prince of Bahrain, who had previously contributed $32M to the Clintoon Foundation for a “scholarship fund”. That individual was given virtually immediate access to Clintoon in terms of getting a personal meeting with her after contacting Abedin.
After seeing all of that, well, it’s kinda hard to avoid the conclusion that there’s a damn good chance that “pay for play” is indeed exactly what was going on. Circumstantial? Yeah, it is. But here, the circumstances seem persuasive as hell.
Even so, Clintoon has her weak-minded sycophants incapable of facing ugly reality defenders. Predictably, both Clintoon and her defenders say that occurrences such as these are “coincidental”.
Yeah, right. And Al Capone was just a savvy businessman in Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s, too.
Clintoon and her cronies might want to remember one thing, though. Capone didn’t go to jail for racketeering.
He ended up in prison because investigators “followed the money”.
(Edited to Add: here’s an article from Yahoo News giving more details. I don’t recommend you read it immediately after eating.)
Author’s Note: new or occasional readers may notice the spelling “Clintoon” and assume that is a typographical error. It is not. That is intentional.
In behavior, both famous Clintoons are IMO exemplars of the stereotypical corrupt politician – and are such compelling exemplars that they appear to be near-cartoonish representations of same. (However, though each is IMO thoroughly corrupted they do appear to be corrupted in different ways.) Thus, referring to them as “Clintoons” simply seems apropos.
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I’ve been saying it since the beginning. The reason for the private e-mail server was specifically to keep the links between the foundation and her position as SecState and the money flowing to her because of her position a secret.
What’s sad and pathetic is her supporters continue to make excuses for her when it’s so blatantly obvious that she’s corrupt. I can’t even begin to imagine what she would be like if she were to be elected.
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(Sigh.) I used to read these historical novels about Rome when I was in junior high school. Most of them were quite clear on the levels of corruption in the Roman government.
Succession was a dynastic thing, which meant that in order to make sure he had a good successor, Hadrian officially adopted Antoninus Pius. Sometimes it worked, and sometimes, the Praetorian Guard thought the ‘successor’ should meet a different fate and dispatched him, as they did with Caligula. And the Roman government was much more corrupt than our government is now.
Is the entire clintoon clan corrupt? I’d say so, if ‘clan’ means those involved in it. You do have to wonder why that sowscow hasn’t been thrown into jail for things that would have the rest of us buried and never heard from again, until we’re too old and wobbly to be of any use to anyone.
My response to this apparent lack of punishment (?) – for want of a better word – is that something is going to stomp on her without any help from us.
I’ve seen it happen repeatedly. Best example is that I had a modest retirement account with UBS a while back. Nothing spectacular, but it was there if I needed it. And I got bad advice from them, so it dwindled and by the time I moved it away from them, there was not much left of it. I’m sure that you can understand how happy I was to see that not too long after that, UBS was investigated for tax evasion and tax fraud with regard to their ‘special’ account holders.
What goes around, comes around.
Have a little faith.
That isn’t so hard, is it?
Hondo, the sobering thought here is that this is just what has been revealed so far. We’ve been assured in the past that all the Hillary emails had been disclosed only to have more turn up. Hell only knows how many thousands more may exist that we don’t know about and/or have been destroyed. That’s an established Clinton pattern that goes back to their Arkansas scams.
What is so pissing is that this is precisely the kind of official corruption the RICO Statutes are designed to prosecute and yet our criminally politicized justice system sits on its hands.
Hate Trump as much as you want, but if you want to see this kind of blatant corruption ended and the perps imprisoned, you’d better damned well vote for him. The number one reason to vote for Trump is to imprison Hillary.
My spouse’s most sage advice is to “follow the money”. Every.time.
And should the CCF Foundation be allowed to remain in business, SOMEONE better get to gettin’, FFS. How this has been allowed to stand at all is just beyond the pale.