"Inside Panama Papers: Multiple Clinton Connections" - A MUST READ!
Last edited Sun Apr 17, 2016, 04:42 PM - Edit history (1)
Hillary Clinton recently blasted the hidden financial dealings exposed in the Panama Papers, but she and her husband have multiple connections with people who have used the besieged law firm Mossack Fonseca to establish offshore entities. Among them are Gabrielle Fialkoff, finance director for Hillary Clintons first campaign for the U.S. Senate; Frank Giustra, a Canadian mining magnate who has traveled the globe with Bill Clinton; the Chagoury family, which pledged $1 billion in projects to the Clinton Global Initiative; and Chinese billionaire Ng Lap Seng, who was at the center of a Democratic fund-raising scandal when Bill Clinton was president. <snip>
Another connection is Giustra, the director of UrAsia Energy Ltd, a British Virgin Islands offshore company registered in May 2005. The company wanted to conduct uranium exploration, development, production and marketing operations and related activities in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, according to a draft of the shareholders agreement. UrAsia, based in British Columbia, Canada, finalized a deal in September 2005 to buy uranium mines for $500 million in Kazakhstan, according to published reports. The deal came after Giustra joined Bill Clinton in Kazakhstan for the launch of a Clinton Foundation health initiative and dined with him and Kazakhstans president, among others. The timing prompted questions about whether Bill Clinton played any role in the agreement. Giustra denied that, saying it came after months of negotiations.
The following year, Giustra, who is also involved in filmmaking and founded Lionsgate Entertainment, made a donation of more than $30 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to published reports.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article72215012.html
This is investigative journalism & news, but was locked.
McClatchy Newspapers and about 350 other journalists working under the umbrella of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists have searched an archive containing more than 11.5 million Mossack Fonseca documents, including passports, financial records and emails. After a series of articles earlier this month revealed how business owners and politicians used offshores, authorities raided the law firms offices in Panama.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)IDK how more late-breaking it could be. I assume it was locked by a thin-skinned Hillarian.... there's quite the double standard here inre moderation.
barbtries
(28,795 posts)as the original article at the site states. bad lock.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Nope! Can't have that!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)thesquanderer
(11,986 posts)It's whether it is news.
Here's the message about the lock:
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)It was reporting of facts.
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)Panama Papers. Ergo, based on analysis. You just have to know the Clintax of the word. You're welcome.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)That's convenient.
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Even though it is s breaking development to a current story.
thesquanderer
(11,986 posts)tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)For six months, a team of Guardian journalists worked in tight secrecy on the biggest leak in history. This is the inside story of how the Panama Papers unfolded
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Iow: Late Breaking News.
thesquanderer
(11,986 posts)Rules for LBN is that it has to be within 12 hours.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)...which included breaking developments on a current story.
thesquanderer
(11,986 posts)The rest I addressed in my post #20. Not saying I agree with the decision there, just explainnig why I think it went the way it did.
Omaha Steve
(99,632 posts)Just so you know.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)thesquanderer
(11,986 posts)Please see my post #28.
dooner
(1,217 posts)This is NOT an opinion piece. So.. any in-depth NEWS story = analysis?
Wow... no wonder there's so little worth reading on DU these days.
I'm shocked by all this.
thesquanderer
(11,986 posts)Clearly, an "event" that just happened is news. Other than that, it can be hard to predict how they will see it. The event of the initial release of the Panama Papers was news. Figuring out all of was really revealed in them, which is a more gradual process, I guess is a judgment call in how you categorize it, as news vs. analysis, and opinions about that might differ, story by story. But right now, they seem very sensitive when it comes to things that refer to either Clinton or Sanders, because they worry that people are trying to skirt around the fact that things posted in GD are not front-page promoted. So maybe that's leading some of them to be a bit more heavy-handed.
Omaha Steve
(99,632 posts)I've been there and done that. I know how the system works.
Let us not complain as that is a DU violation.
OS
mpcamb
(2,870 posts)There's some ax-grinding, some barely concealed hidden agendas at work and some plain old pimping for a particular candidate.
I always liked the scrappy give and take; always detested articles getting high-jacked in some ego-wrought cagematch. But the pseudo-sensitivity, the asking for a lock or jury review and the widening version of what's analysis rather than news has taken a lot away from this forum.
Steve, I liked your statement after a Clinton win about among other thing lowering the level of spite and all, but I think the nomination is still very much in play. Cheap tricks frustrate and anger and are then source of a lot of divisiveness. I don't have an answer for any of it. But whatever the outcome some will bitterly sit out the general election rather than work for the other candidate.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)Purveyor
(29,876 posts)forum...
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)I'll wait to see if this is truly a Democratic Underground or if it is something other than that
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)Really?
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Divernan
(15,480 posts)UrAsia, based in British Columbia, Canada, finalized a deal in September 2005 to buy uranium mines for $500 million in Kazakhstan, according to published reports. The deal came after Giustra joined Bill Clinton in Kazakhstan for the launch of a Clinton Foundation health initiative and dined with him and Kazakhstans president, among others. The timing prompted questions about whether Bill Clinton played any role in the agreement. Giustra denied that, saying it came after months of negotiations.
The Clinton Foundation gives good value for the corporate money. It "facilitates" luxury hotels for visiting corporate overlords, infrastructure (harbors, paved roads, electrical & water lines to labor locations/industrial parks. Part of the full service, and such a super photo op for visiting Bill & Chelsea, are the schools & medical clinics. All those cute little dark-skinned girls in their school uniforms, and the nurses innoculating the locals. See the thing is, it's not enough to tempt corporate investors with rock bottom wages ($3.50 a day in Clinton's Haiti projects). The corporate overlords need workers healthy enough to show up regularly and put in a HARD day's work. And workers need to be able to read and do some basic math. One hand washes the other in the Klinton Universe.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)SHAME SHAME
BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)Last edited Sat Apr 16, 2016, 11:10 PM - Edit history (1)
I'm assuming they would send a courtesy note
*update* just heard back and they are leaving it locked, so will leave this thread as-is and thank you mods for verifying things.