2016 Postmortem
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Clinton Foundation Donor That Got Big OPIC Loans Now Faces Corruption Allegations
by Peter Flaherty on Mon, 04/11/2016
Another Clinton Foundation donor with ethics problems received a loan from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. This time, the dollar amounts are gargantuan, and the recipient is at the center of a corruption scandal in Pakistan.
According to a report in the Washington Free Beacon by Alan Goodman, a Middle Eastern investment firm called The Abraaj Group has contributed $500,000 to $1 million to the Clinton Foundation. Abraaj owns and manages a utility company named K-Electric in Pakistan. That countrys former oil minister, Asim Hussain, has been arrested for providing illegal favors for K-Electric and harboring Islamic terrorists in hospitals he owns. From the article:
The investigation has not impacted the U.S. governments ongoing partnership with the Abraaj Group, which dates back to at least 2012. That year, the Overseas Private Investment Corporationa federal agency that dispenses corporate loans under the guidance of the U.S. State Departmentselected the Abraaj Group to manage its $150 million Middle East investment fund.
Two weeks later, the Abraaj Group co-sponsored the Clinton Global Initiatives annual meeting.
Last October, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation again pledged up to $250 million to help fund the Abraaj Groups K-Electric operations. The announcement came less than a month after the Sindh Rangers, a Pakistani law enforcement agency, reportedly issued a 12-page report accusing Hussain of passing illegal favors to K-Electric.
Ken Boehm, chairman
By law, OPIC is required to conduct due diligence efforts on any potential recipient of financing, especially matters involving millions of dollars, said Boehm.
Yet more and more cases have emerged in which recipients of OPIC financing with ties to the Clinton Foundation were not properly vetted.
One major Clinton donor, Claudio Osorio, is now doing 12 years in prison for defrauding OPIC in a $10 million financing deal.
http://nlpc.org/stories/2016/04/11/clinton-foundation-donor-got-big-opic-loans-now-faces-corruption-allegations
yet another new one:
The loan was rushed through and Osorio was never required to provide an audited financial statement.
The loan was supposed to be for building houses in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, but Osorio instead used the money to fund a lavish lifestyle and to buy off politicians.
Documents uncovered by the National Legal and Policy Center show that Bill Clinton lined a up well-connected law firm to represent Osario with OPIC, and Hillary Clinton went to bat for the project within the State Department.
OPIC is technically an independent agency but submits its budget through the State Department.
Whereas Osorios Ponzi-like schemes have generated headlines, and even an American Greed episode on CNBC, the role of the Clintons' involvement in the OPIC loan has not been previously reported.
http://nlpc.org/stories/2015/07/17/clintons-pushed-opic-loan-fraudster-claudio-osario
and the emails provide more evidence:
Hillary Emails Shed Light on Clintons Role in Loan to Fraudster
by Peter Flaherty on Thu, 09/03/2015
The latest batch of publicly-released State Department emails provide more evidence that a $10 million loan from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) to Clinton Foundation donor Claudio Osorio was made as a result of pressure from Bill and Hillary Clinton.
The loan to a company named InnoVida, owned by Osorio, was supposed to be for building houses in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, but Osorio used the money to finance a lavish lifestyle. Osorio is currently in prison for fraud. OPIC is an independent agency but submits its budget through the State Department.
The Clintons efforts to push the OPIC loan were uncovered by NLPCs Ken Boehm and Tom Anderson. They spent many hours at both the state and federal courthouses in Miami going through documents related to the InnoVida case.
The emails also illustrate how close Clinton supporters like Jonathan Mantz have run a lucrative influence-peddling operation. Mantz was Hillarys 2008 finance director, and today plays a key role in Priorities USA, a super PAC supporting Hillary. Mantz was a lobbyist for InnoVida. Alana Goodman of the Washington Free Beacon today details Mantz' campaign on behalf of InnoVida, as revealed through the emails.
http://nlpc.org/stories/2015/09/03/hillary-emails-shed-light-clintons%E2%80%99-role-loan-fraudster
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)DemocracyDirect
(708 posts)The Republicans are going to love this.
I'm terrified.
Yurovsky
(2,064 posts)or should I say, have their license RENEWED if HRC gets the nomination. They've always owned the GOP, and funding HRC's campaign was pure evil genius.
The only way the 1% loses is if Bernie wins. I can't believe anyone who identifies as a proegressive or liberal would support anyone else.
Merryland
(1,134 posts)that the Clinton Foundation was a pay-to-play operation from top to bottom?
Avalux
(35,015 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)How people can excuse this shit is beyond me.
JudyM
(29,265 posts)Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Faux pas
(14,690 posts)Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)to constantly scoop up money deals around the world for herself via the Foundation.
There's no way to say that she was a good Secretary of State. That is simply a lie. She was incompetent and corrupt. That is an epic fail.
Why then, would we hand her a higher office? This is why I hope she gets indicted, to simply stop this madness.
Even if she doesn't get indicted though, her candidacy is going nowhere. The Repubs will not have it. As soon as she's nominated all of the many stories like this one will be all over the news and it won't stop.
JudyM
(29,265 posts)amborin
(16,631 posts)JudyM
(29,265 posts)DanTex
(20,709 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Legal_and_Policy_Center
Peter Flaherty worked for Romney, and his job was convincing the GOP that Romney was right-wing enough.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/us/politics/romney-aide-flaherty-leans-to-right-with-soft-touch.html
amborin
(16,631 posts)restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)for their massive "donations"and , "speaking fees" for access to OUR government and OUR resources. the idea that she could end up in the wh unfettered should make us all shudder.
i hate to say this, but the only thing that could prevent her from literally selling our country piece by piece to overseas interests is a balanced government.
yes, a balance government. its the only thing short of impeachment that will stop her.
if she is the nom i am seriously considering my downticket choices, and i will leave it at that.
amborin
(16,631 posts)restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)that the pres seems to be dragging his feet about releasing the 28 pages.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)has donated at least dozen times, to keep the money in that $27 bragging point (contributing to perpetuating a lie), that got a ticket for crapping in the park....ewwww he should have been vetted.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)A primer on using money to gain power and power to protect wealth.
Is the Clinton Foundation the Dulles Brothers Sullivan and Cromwell?
by JOHN STANTON
CounterPunch, APRIL 15, 2016
EXCERPT...
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton instigated and legitimized the overthrow of the Honduran government in 2009 not all that unlike the 1954 Guatemala Coup engineered primarily by CIA Director Allen Dulles, supported by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and with the glowing approval of President Dwight Eisenhower.
In a March 2016 interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now, Greg Grandin, a professor of Latin American history at New York University, discussed the fallout from the 2009 Honduran Coup. I mean, hundreds of peasant activists and indigenous activists have been killed. Scores of gay rights activists have been killed. I mean, its justits just a nightmare in Honduras. I mean, theres ways in which the coup regime basically threw up Honduras to transnational pillage. And Berta Cáceres [a prominent Honduran activist assassinated in 2016], in that interview, says what was installed after the coup was something like a permanent counterinsurgency on behalf of transnational capital. And that wasthat wouldnt have been possible if it were not for Hillary Clintons normalization of that election, or legitimacy.
In an April interview with Dana Frank, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Democracy Now, Frank indicated that President Obama had basically turned over Central and South America to Hillary Clinton. Frank then said this: I think its really about the U.S. pushback against the democratically elected governments of the left and the center-left that came to power in Latin America in the 90s and in the 2000sVenezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, El Salvador, all these countries. And Zelaya was the weakest link in that chain. He, himself, did not come out of a big social movement base at the time of his election, certainly since the coup. And I think they werethe U.S. was looking for a way to push back against that. Theres a very important military base, U.S. military base, Soto Cano Air Force Base, in Honduras. And Honduras has always been the most captive nation of the United States in Latin America. So, I think they were testing what they could get away with. And they got away with it. It was the first domino pushing back against democracy in Latin America and reasserting U.S. power, in service to a transnational corporate agenda.
CONTINUED...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/15/is-the-clinton-foundation-the-dulles-brothers-sullivan-and-cromwell/
It is the foreign policy of Empire -- war abroad and repression at home to empower and profit the connected few.