Clinton Foundation conflicts of interest

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The Clinton Foundation conflicts of interest cited below roughly fall into three categories : (1) past

conflicts during Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as U.S. Secretary of State; (2) conflicts of interest

related to fundraising for election campaigns; and (3) potential conflicts should Hillary Clinton be elected

president of the United States. Potential conflicts are of concern given a president would find it difficult to

recuse themself in a decision that only the president can make, such as the Keystone XL

pipeline.[1]

The Clinton Foundation Federal Tax ID number is [https://www.google.com/search?q=31-1580204&ie=utf-

8&oe=utf-831-1580204 31-1580204].

[https://web.archive.org/web/20120118052616/http://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors/pages/page_1.html Known

donor list as of 2008].

Oil companies[2]

  • Chevron, Alberta Clipper
  • American Petroleum Institute, Canadian Oil Sands
  • Exxon Mobile, Candadian Oil Sands
  • ConocoPhillips, Canadian Oil Sands

Arms sales[3]

In all, governments and corporations involved in the arms deals approved by Clinton’s State Department have

delivered between $54 million and $141 million to the Clinton Foundation as well as hundreds of thousands of

dollars in payments to the Clinton family, according to foundation and State Department records. [4]

  • Algeria paid between $250,000 and $500,000.
  • Saudi Arabia, paid foundation at least $10 million, bought $29 billion arms

deal.[5][6]

  • Kuwait, paid Bill Clinton $425,000 in speaking fees, recieved approval for $693 million purchase of Boeing

fighter aircraft.[7]

  • United Arab Emirates, donated between $1 million and $5 million.
  • Oman, donated between $1 million and $5 million.
  • Qatar paid between $1 million and $5 million.
  • Thailand
  • Norway
  • Australia, donated between $5 million and $10 million.

Defense contractors

American defense contractors donated to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state and in

some cases made personal payments to Bill Clinton for speaking engagements. Such firms and their subsidiaries

were listed as contractors in $163 billion worth of deals that were authorized by the Clinton State Department

between 2009 and 2012.

  • Boeing; paid foundation $10 million, recieved Saudi contract. In 2010 paid foundation $900,000 and recieved

approval for $3.7 billion Russian deal.[8]

[9]

when it was still 49 percent owned by General Electric, a major defense contractor that benefitted from the

Clinton State Department's arms export approval. General Electric donated at least $1 million.

  • Lockhead Martin, paid at least $250,000
  • United Technologies, paid at least $50,000

Free trade agreements

  • Colombia, Sec. Clinton reversed opposition after foundation took cash from Frank Giustra, who also sits on the

Foundation Board.[10]

  • Panama. Donors to the Clinton foundation use Panama for offshore tax havens and money laundering as revealed in

the Panama Papers.[11]

Individuals

  • Frank Giustra
  • Raj Fernando purchased a seat on the State Department's International Security Advisory Board with a $250,000

donation to the Clinton Foundation. Fernando also served as a 2016 unelected Superdelegate for Hillary Clinton

to the Democatic Convention.

[12]

$75,000.[13]

  • Richard L. Friedman, hotel developer, asked for help building hotels in

Haiti.[14][15]

Foreign governments

foundation-in-2013/ Rilin Enterprises run by Wang Wenliang, a member of the Chinese parliament] with close security

and intelligence connections to the Chinese government, has donated $2

million.[16][17] Mr. Wang

Wenliang's donations have also brought former DNC chief fundraiser and chairman Terry McAuliffe under FBI

investigation.[18][19]

  • Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (Global Affairs Canada) gave $480,000 and cites the

Keystone XL pipeline as one of it's priorities.[20]

  • Germany, donated between $100,000 and $250,000.
  • Italy
  • Netherlands
  • Brunei paid between $1 million and $5 million. Both Clinton's claim to be advocates for homosexual rights.

Gays in Brunei face up to 10 years in prison.[22]

  • Jamaica paid between $50,000 and $100,000. Gay men in Jamaica caught having sex face up to 10 years in prison.

Foreign entities

  • Rosatom. Purchased a controlling interest in Uranium One, a Utah uranium mining company owned by a

Canadian firm run by Frank Giustra who is also a Clinton Foundation Board member. The transaction required

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's approval. Once completed, Giustra donated $130 million to the Clinton

Foundation.[23]

  • UBS, a Swiss bank and one of the world's largest, was fined $780 million in February 2009 in a U.S. Federal

Court on charges it helped thousands of Americans evade taxes.[24] Donations to the foundation increased tenfold to $600,000

after Hillary intervened where Department of Justice prosecutors and the IRS previously had been the

lead agencies. Additionally, Bill Clinton collected $1.5 million in speaking

fees.[25]

  • FIFA (Federacion Internationale de Football Association), currently facing Department of Justice charges for money

laundering, racketeering and wire fraud, donated at least $50,000.[26]

Domestic entities

  • Energy Pioneer Solutions Inc. The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) helped arrange $2 million in financial

commitments to benefit the for-profit company owned by longtime Clinton friends and the Treasurer of the

Democratic National Committee. The CGI was able to secure an $812,000 grant from then-Energy Secretary [[Steven

Chu]]. IRS regulations are explicit, all non-profit activites are not to be used for private or personal

profit-making activities.[27]

$2,034,500.[29]

  • Happy Hearts Fund, offered Bill Clinton a lifetime achievement award twice which he turned down until there was a

veiled solicitation and offer for $500,000, then he accepted. Clinton pocketed nearly one quarter of the charity

event which could have built 10 preschools in Indonesia, according to the [[New York

Times]].[30]

Unknown/unreported

  • Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership. A Canadian law provides a convenient loophole for money laundering.

The law prohibits charities from disclosing individual donors without their permission. 1,100 secret donors remain

undisclosed, thanks to Clinton Foundation Board member Frank Guistra's, Clinton Giustra Enterprise

Partnership.[31]

[32]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.wsj.com/articles/foreign-government-gifts-to-clinton-foundation-on-the-rise-1424223031
  2. ↑ http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/oil-companies-donated-clinton-foundation-while- lobbying-state-department-2348832
  3. ↑ http://www.rollcall.com/news/clinton_foundations_missteps_point_to_broader_problem-241644-1.html
  4. ↑ http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187
  5. ↑ http://www.state.gov/t/pm/rls/rm/149749.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/12/179777.htm
  7. ↑ http://www.dsca.mil/major-arms-sales/kuwait-c-17-globemaster-iii-aircraft-and-related-support
  8. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-hillary-clinton-and- boeing-a-beneficial-relationship/2014/04/13/21fe84ec-bc09-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html
  9. ↑ https://theintercept.com/document/2016/02/20/boeing-weapon-sales-to-saudi-arabia/
  10. ↑ http://www.ibtimes.com/colombian-oil-money-flowed-clintons-state-department-took-no-action- prevent-labor-1874464
  11. ↑ http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article72215012.html
  12. ↑ http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/06/10/abcs_brian_ross_do_newly_released_clinton_emails_show_quid_p ro_quo.html
  13. ↑ http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/george-stephanopoulos-discloses-75-000-contribution-to- clinton-foundation-207120#.VVSiYNO1lLc.twitter
  14. ↑ http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/19/emails-clinton-foundation-donor-lobbied-state- department-for-haiti-hotels.html
  15. ↑ https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/27742#source
  16. ↑ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-company-pledged-2-million-to-clinton-foundation-in-2013/
  17. ↑ The Clintons' War on Women, [http://epubbookonline.com/b/3035/roger-stone/the-clintons-war-on- women/33 CHAPTER 23 CONFLICT OF INTEREST], by Roger Stone, Skyhorse Publishing, 2015, pp. 341-342.
  18. ↑ http://time.com/4348675/terry-mcauliffe-hillary-clinton-china-investigation/
  19. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/officials-feds-investigating-virginia- governor/2016/05/23/ef6c2ebe-2126-11e6-aa84-42391ba52c91_story.html
  20. ↑ http://www.international.gc.ca/department- ministere/plans/rpp/rpp_1516.aspx?lang=eng
  21. ↑ http://www.nydailynews.com/news/money/top-donors-clinton-foundation-include-saudis-blackwater-article- 1.357326
  22. ↑ http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/06/17/rights-groups-silent- as-clinton-foundation-takes-millions-from-countries-that-imprison-gays.html
  23. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for- control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=0
  24. ↑ [http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20090219/FREE/902199983 UBS fined $780 million in tax evasion scandal,] Investment News, February 19, 2009.
  25. ↑ http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/07/30/ubs-donations-to-clinton-foundation-increased-after-hillary- intervention-in-irs.html
  26. ↑ http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- room/243190-fifa-a-clinton-foundation-donor
  27. ↑ http://www.wsj.com/articles/clinton-charity-aided-clinton-friends-1463086383
  28. ↑ http://www.nydailynews.com/news/money/top-donors-clinton-foundation-include-saudis-blackwater- article-1.357326
  29. ↑ http://www.nilrr.org/2015/05/15/big-labor-gave-2-million-to-clinton-foundation/
  30. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/30/us/politics/an-award-for-bill-clinton-came-with-500000-for-his- foundation.html
  31. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/1100-donors-to-a-canadian-charity-tied-to-clinton- foundation-remain-secret/2015/04/28/c3c0f374-edbc-11e4-8666-a1d756d0218e_story.html
  32. ↑ https://www.clintonfoundation.org/our-work/clinton-giustra-enterprise-partnership

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