Gold Mine: Hillary Clinton’s Brother Granted Super-Rare Mining Permit from Haiti After State Dept. S

[Seeinghope]

Sent Country Billions

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s brother, Tony Rodham, sat on the board of a self-described mining company that in 2012 received one of only two “gold exploitation permits” from the Haitian government—the first issued in over 50 years.

The tiny North Carolina company, VCS Mining, also included on its board Bill Clinton’s co-chair of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), former Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive.

The Rodham gold mine revelation is just one of dozens featured in a forthcoming bombshell investigative book by three-time New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer, according to a Thursday statement from publishing giant HarperCollins. The publisher says the book, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, is the culmination of an exhaustive one-year deep dive investigation into the nexus between the Clintons’ $100+ million personal wealth, the Clinton Foundation, and the decisions Hillary made as Secretary of State that benefited foreign donors, governments, and companies.

http://www.haitian-truth.org/gold-mine-hillary-clinton%E2%80%99s-brother-granted-super-rare-mining-permit-from-haiti-after-state-dept-sent-country-billions/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. What a coinkydink.

[My Good Babushka]

2. I think we will rue the day

we've indulged the aspirations of this syndicate for too long.

[DemocracyDirect]

3. We don't even have to do any looking anymore...

... to find evidence of graft and influence peddling and corruption.

What the heck are they thinking about supporting this?

[Octafish]

4. It really is nice to have family in business.

Especially when they control offices of the US Government.

[BernieforPres2016]

5. Hillary's brothers almost make Bill look classy

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/hillary-clinton-hugh-tony-rodham

<Tony, meanwhile, landed a job as a field organizer with the Democratic National Committee and married Sen. Barbara Boxer's daughter, Nicole. But he soon struck out on his own, launching a consulting firm. In 1997, he traveled with three business partners to Cambodia, where he met with newly installed dictator Hun Sen to discuss possible investments in the country. Hun Sen, who had come to power in a bloody coup, was gearing up for the upcoming election by intimidating his political opponents, and the US government had taken a hands-off approach to the regime. Rodham suggested that his visit might help the peace process and open up the nation to American business. "We came to see what fits here in Cambodia, and there are many fits," he told reporters—speaking at a hotel, the Associated Press dryly noted, that was owned by a Cambodian businessman banned from doing business in the United States because of his alleged involvement in the drug trade.

A few years later, another embarrassing foreign adventure landed the Rodham brothers in the news. In 1999, Hugh and Tony entered into a $118 million joint venture to grow and export hazelnuts with Aslan Abashidze, a strongman in a semiautonomous region of the Republic of Georgia (who had allegedly murdered one of his top deputies in the early 1990s). Abashidze and the Rodhams weren't just partners—Tony Rodham agreed to become the godfather to Abashidze's grandsons. Abashidze interpreted his deal with the brothers as a de facto endorsement by the president himself, and he told reporters that the American branch of the hazelnut-importing business would be located "next to the White House." This was news to the Clinton White House, which was allied with Abashidze's rival, Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze. Ultimately, the Rodhams called off the deal because of the controversy. Abashidze would later flee to Russia shortly before a Georgian court sentenced him to 15 years in prison for embezzlement.

The Rodhams continued to trade on their family connection. In 2000, Tony Rodham successfully lobbied President Clinton to pardon a Tennessee couple convicted of bank fraud, over the objections of the Justice Department. Tony insisted that he took up the couple's cause pro bono. But congressional investigators later found the couple had paid him a $244,769 salary as a consultant. And Hugh Rodham was paid $434,000 to lobby—successfully—for pardons for a cocaine trafficker and a fraudster who peddled an anti-baldness treatment. (He later gave the money back.)>

[SamKnause]

6. I am sick of the Bush family.

I am sick of the Clinton family.

The misery, destruction, and death these 2 families have

caused across the globe, and in this country, is incalculable.

[CharlotteVale]

16. +1000000

[beedle]

18. +^ Squared nt

[merrily]

7. According to the rules and laws made by lawmakers who

love lobbyists, it's actionable corruption only if you can prove a specific quid pro quo.

Was the permit for her brother promised to her if she agreed to take a specific action that she was not going to take anyway? Did she then agree to take that action? Very high standard, but it's the standards our public "servants" set for themselves.

[northernsouthern]

8. Hey watch it or Delores will call you sexist.

(starts at 11m23s, but the "start at time" link does not appear to work here)

That was her response to comments about her brother is considered sexist.

Definition
sexist: I'm not with her*




*Her: offer only applies to Hillary Clinton, offer void after election, DNC may choose to reinstate offer at any time

[Buzz Clik]

9. Will we be promoting Ann Coulter's new book when it comes out, too?

[Seeinghope]

11. So many sources saying the same thing. Is it hard having your fingers in your ears all of the time?

[Buzz Clik]

13. Yeah, but you chose to hawk a book about it.

[Seeinghope]

15. Sad thing..I didn't do these things, I am just posting about what Hillary does and that is

important because I don't like ALL of the things that she has done while in office. There is just too much to overlook. This is just ANOTHER thing to have to try to swallow. It is totally disgusting. The President of the United States shouldn't be this bad. To say that ALL OF THIS is not true is naive. She is CERTAINLY NOT FOR THE PEOPLE she is a wolf in Sheeps clothing.

We will get scraps and some "monumental" looking things that really don't mean anything.

Bill Clinton was going to privatise Social Security. Do you know what that means? That means if we hit another big recession, we don't even have the small amount for essentials that Social Security would provide. Why you say? Because privatising would put us at the mercy of Wall Street and that in turn would make us need Wall Street need to stay healthy. Mission Accomplished.

Have you ever heard the term"conquer and divide"? That is what a vote for Clinton will do right now. They worked their professional life to make a lot of money and to have a lot of power. They are friends with the powers that want to keep us repressed. People that vote for the Clintons are voting against themselves......unless they are extremely wealthy.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Peter Schweizer is definitely a right-winger.

So this should be considered with that slant in mind. Oddly, though, he also worked as a consultant to the Office of Presidential Speechwriting in the White House during 2008-09.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schweizer

[whatchamacallit]

12. So?

standard hilbot response

[ViseGrip]

14. Worse than the Bush's! Hillary did this for Chelsea's hubby's friend!!!!!OMG!

http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/hillary-clinton-intervened-for-a-st-petersburg-firm-after-request-to/2257053

HILLARY CLINTON INTERVENED FOR A ST. PETERSBURG FIRM AFTER REQUEST TO SON-IN-LAW
• By Stephen Braun, Associated Press

Wednesday, December 9, 2015 9:33am

Investors in Neptune Mining had asked Mezvinsky for help setting up a meeting with Clinton or other State Department officials, AP reports. [Associated Press]

WASHINGTON — As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton intervened in a request forwarded by her son-in-law on behalf of a deep-sea mining firm to meet with her or other State Department officials, according to the recently released Clinton emails.

One of the firm's investors had asked Clinton's son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky, who is married to Chelsea Clinton, for help setting up such contacts, the emails show.

The lobbying effort on behalf of Neptune Minerals Inc. came while Hillary Clinton — now the leading Democratic presidential candidate — was advocating for an Obama administration push for Senate approval of a sweeping Law of the Sea Treaty. The pact would have aided U.S. mining companies scouring for minerals in international waters, but the Republican-dominated Senate blocked it.

Clinton ordered a senior State Department official in August 2012 to look into the request. Her action came three months after an investor in the mining firm emailed Mezvinsky, a partner in Eaglevale Partners LP, a New York hedge fund, asking for his help in setting up State Department contacts.

Clinton relayed a copy of the investor's email to Thomas Nides, then a deputy secretary of state and now vice chairman at Morgan Stanley, a major New York financial services firm. "Could you have someone follow up on this request, which was forwarded to me?" Clinton asked Nides. He replied: "I'll get on it."

[AzDar]

17. The Clintons have learned well from their self-proclaimed Bush relatives...

[nc4bo]

19. Some get the whole bakery while some only get what fell on the floor. nt

[John Poet]

20. The Democrats are poised to nominate

George W. Bush, in a pantsuit.

[Seeinghope]

21. LOL!!!! I think that she is more dangerous, remember the loose cannon called Bill?

[KoKo]

22. Recommend for exposure.

[restorefreedom]

23. my, my, some people have such good luck!