Huffpo's Tom Edsall: What Did Bill Clinton Do to Get $15 Million from Ron Burkle?

[flpoljunkie]

One big line item is missing from the press summary however: the $15 million paid to Bill Clinton between 2003 and 2007 by Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Global Opportunities Fund.

In fact, the Burkle payments, buried deep in the income tax forms themselves, were the only real news in tax documents, which were made public for the first time.

The Clintons' huge book profits, her salary and his speaking fees, were all well known. Hillary Clinton has been required to disclose details on many of those sources of income in the annual financial disclosure statements she has to file as a member of the U.S. Senate.

But until the release of the tax returns on April 4, the only disclosure Hillary Clinton had made about her husband's financial relationship with Burkle was the fact that Bill Clinton earned "more than $1,000" annually from the partnerships.

Now that the Clintons have disclosed that the former president received from 250 to 500 times "more than $1,000" each year since 2002, the glaring question that remains unanswered is: What did he do for all this pocket change?

Bill Clinton was, according to sources close to both Burkle and Clinton, deeply angered by a September 26, 2007, front page Wall Street Journal article detailing some of Yucaipa's questionable dealings. The story, which broke on the same day that heads of state and business leaders convened in New York to discuss the Clinton Global Initiative, described plans to invest millions of dollars in a venture to buy up Catholic Church property.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/04/what-did-bill-do-to-get-1_n_95189.html

[spoonful]

1. Hint to Edsall: Hillary Clinton is not in jail

Or perhaps Edsall could press charges.

[DerekJ]

6. Hint to spoonful, Obama is not in Jail. That didn't stop HRC supporters from saying that Rezko will

be his demise.

At least Rezko is not in his tax returns.

You might also do yourself a favor and read this article:
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=076fd56f-4aca-4683-a9d1-3c55d748946e&k=60222

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. .

:popcorn:

[Vinca]

2. Burkle was also supposedly hiding his money in the Cayman Islands.

Were the Clintons doing the same?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aGwhTXxfCSHo&refer=home

[redqueen]

11. That offshore income crap has to stop NOW.

:grr:

[totodeinhere]

3. Oh no, let's not ask any inconvenient questions about how the Clintons got their millions.

[roguevalley]

13. only obama and others who challenge the king and queen of

america can have those questions asked. rezko is much more relevant to america than the dozens of millions that bill and hillary make from foreign governments and other crooks. you see, rezko might influence our national future and we all know foreign governmental money and other such don't. I truly hope I don't need to add a sarcasm smilie.

[spoonful]

4. Flashback: Tom Edsall declares liberalism dead (2006)

"For the Democratic Party to revive, major tenets of American liberalism, economic and sociocultural, will have to be discarded. The party can join Studebaker and the Glass Bottle Blowers union, it can trudge along as No. 2, or it can undergo a painful transformation."

Ezra Klein criticized this gentlement right away for his anti-liberal comments:
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=11&year=2006&base_name=post_2135

[flpoljunkie]

5. A bit of distraction from the topic at hand, eh?

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[DerekJ]

8. kick

[TexasObserver]

9. What Bill has been doing for the past 7 years ...

whoring himself to cheesy special interests

[1776Forever]

12. ABC anticipates Clinton tax returns to see offshore income

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/ABC_investigates_Clinton_income_offshore_accounts_0403.html

ABC anticipates Clinton tax returns to see offshore income - video on bottom of page
David Edwards and Nick Juliano
Published: Thursday April 3, 2008

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And HRC supporters seem to think it is OK that Bill has lobbied for the Dubai Port deal and the East Indian Vin Gupta debacle??? Odd - Makes one wonder if he does get into the White House again even as 1st Husband what they will be wanting from the Clinton's again. They have all slept in the Lincoln bedroom so what's next?????
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