Clinton Foundatoin Has 1100 Undisclosed Foreign Donors

[amborin]

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 frontrunner, 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.s

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“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........“We are not allowed to disclose even to the Clinton Foundation the names of our donors,” he says.......

.....Canadian tax and privacy law experts were dubious of this claim. Len Farber, former director of tax policy at Canada's Department of Finance, said he wasn't aware of any tax laws that would prevent the charity from releasing its donors' names. "There's nothing that would preclude them from releasing the names of donors," he said. "It's entirely up to them."

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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.

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

[Kelvin Mace]

1. Release the apologists!

[think]

2. Loopholes 101....

[tk2kewl]

10. LobbyWOW!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280150956

Someone needs to do a FoundationWow! too.

"Lobbying rules still too restrictive for you?..."

[think]

12. Thanks for the link :) /nt

[Kip Humphrey]

3. Not fair! After all, 10% goes to charitable works!

[Octafish]

4. We have to be nice to the 1-percent otherwise they won't vote for us.

Unless there's an alternative. LOL.

[Lucinda]

5. A year old article? Anything come of it? n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Are the contributions delivered in traditional unmarked brown paper bags?

Which would be safer than giving them to Hillary and marking them Top Secret.

[peacebird]

7. Laws don't apply to the Clintons apparently.

#ClintonSoCorrupt they waltz into polling places politicking on election day, no prob.

Ignore President Obama and have Sidney Blumenthal advising Hillary as Sec State against Obama's direct specific command?

Agree to disclose all donors to the family foundation, then say nope?

[RufusTFirefly]

8. Don't worry. I'm sure it's fine

I have faith in Hillary!



Besides, it's her turn.

[nichomachus]

11. She is the answer to our prayers.

Hillary Clinton is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

[Politicalboi]

9. Gee, not obeying conditions with Obama

And there he was showing his support for her.

This is good news, hopefully this WILL go somewhere and fast.

[AzDar]

13. Jesus Christ.

[Persondem]

14. You really shouldn't cast stones. Bernie has his own concerns with donors and accountability

" Right now, there remains at least $23 million - nearly a quarter of Bernie's total haul as of last reporting - completely unaccounted for. Right now, there are nearly 700 contributions from people who, for all the FEC knows, could be foreign nationals. And the FEC continues to find new problems with every report."

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/3/14/bernie-sanders-potentially-illegal-campaign-contributions

[Darb]

15. It's a charity, who gives a fuck?

Quit doing the Teabaggers work for them.

[pinebox]

17. Facts are now apparently a TeaBagger thing?

Got it.

[Darb]

18. Weak sauce.

Nice try though, not. Doing the Teabagger bidding by posting ridiculous innuendos about a perfectly legitimate charity is pretty fucking stupid. But for some reason, bernies don't get it. Keep up the bad work.

[panader0]

22. The primary recipients of the charity are the Clintons themselves.

The investigation into the Clinton Foundation is real and the fur will fly.
That much the Clintons can bank on.

[Darb]

23. Pile the bullshit higher and deeper.

You are wishing it, just like a bagger would. I don't understand why there is such similarity between your conspiracies. why?

Tell me about Benghazi now.

[panader0]

24. Hey Darb--I wish it wasn't true, but wishing won't make it go away.

I find your "bagger" accusation very stupid. I am 65, a life-long progressive Democrat and I have no "conspiracies".
I am worried that if my candidate, Senator Sanders, does not win the primaries, that we will see the results of the
two ongoing investigations by the FBI tear our party apart and ensure a Trump presidency.
What else you got?

[pinebox]

16. And yet Hillary's supporters wonder why people don't trust the Clintons

Gee, I can't ever imagine why.

[Darb]

19. Your sig line is so over the top obvioso

that it is suspect. Keep attacking Hillary. It's brilliant.

[panader0]

25. What is obvious is that you did not visit the site.

And if you think that pointing out the flaws of your candidate are "attacks", wait until Trump gets a hold of her.
(If she wins the primary).

[amborin]

27. so many reasons not to trust

[FlatBaroque]

20. Used scumbags

Stick to each other.

[AtomicKitten]

21. k/r

[Skwmom]

26. It's surprising how Obama doesn't appear to be upset by her not honoring the signed agreement. n/t