CLINTON FOUNDATION DONORS MET HER AT STATE

CLINTON FOUNDATION OWERS MET WITH HER AT STATE

In pursuit of the truth - http://www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com -  Thursday, August 25, 2016

 

Ref. Associated Press: By Stephen Braun and Eileen Sullivan - Many Donors To Clinton Foundation Met with Her at State Department - August 23, 2016

Preface:

    Everything possible must be done to prevent the historic great Democratic Party from becoming the party of lies and corruption. It is not fair to all American. It was a fatal mistake indirectly  for the U.S. Catholic Church and the country when Bill Clinton was reelected President in 1996.

  

  Catholic-in-name-only politicians and their supporters elected Bill Clinton. All other religious beliefs voted in a majority No to Clinton. If Hillary Clinton is elected, we will have a corrupt presidency. . Prevention is worth a pound of cure and tragedies for the nation. (GHK)

 

Washington (AP) -- More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money - either personally or through companies or groups - to the Clinton Foundation. It's an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible Ethics challenges if elected president.

 

    At least 85 of 154 from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to the Associated Press. "Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million."

 

    Donors who were granted time with Clinton included an internationally known economist who asked for help as the Bangladesh government pressured him to resign from a nonprofit bank he ran; a Wall Street executive who sought Clinton's help with a visa problem; and Etee Lauder executives who were listed as meeting with Clinton while to counter gender-based violence in South Africa.

 

    The meetings between  Democratic presidential nominee and foundation do not appear to violate legal agreements Clinton and former president Bill Clinton signed before she joined the state department in 2009. But the frequency of the of the overlaps shows the intermingling of access and donations, and fuels perceptions that giving the foundation money was a price of admission for face time with Clinton. "Her calendars and emails released as recently as this week describes scores of contacts she and her top aides had with foundation donors.

 

    The AP's findings represent the first systematic effort to calculate the scope of the intersecting interests of Clinton foundation donors and people who met personally with Clinton or spoke to her by phone about their needs.

 

    The 154 did not include U.S. federal employees or foreign government representatives. Clinton met with representatives of at least 16 foreign governments that donated as much as $170 million to the Clinton charity, but were not included in AP's calculations because such meetings would presumably have been part of her diplomatic duties.

 

    Clinton's campaign said the AP analysis was flawed because it did not include in its calculations meetings with foreign diplomats or U.S. government officials, and the meetings AP examined covered only the first half of Clinton's tenure as secretary of state...

 

    Last week, the Clinton Foundation moved to head off ethics concerns about future donations by announcing changes planned if Clinton is elected. On Monday, Bill Clinton said in a statement that if his wife were to win, he would step down from foundation's board and stop all fundraising for it. The foundation would also accept donations only from U.S. citizens and what it described as independent philanthropies, while no longer taking gifts from foreign groups, U.S. companies or corporate charities.

 

    Clinton said the foundation would no longer hold annual meetings of its international aid program, the Clinton Global Initiative, and it would spin off its foreign-based programs to other charities. Those planned would not affect more than 6,000 donors who have already provided the Clinton charity with more than $2 billion in funding since its creation in 2000.....

 

GEORGE H. KUBECK