So how did Hillary's brother go from being a prison guard to owning a gold mine in Haiti?

[Cheese Sandwich]

Just wondering about that. You don't see that every day. He must be exceptionally talented and bootstraps.

MORNE BOSSA, Haiti — Drive down the rutted dirt road a couple of miles to the guardhouse, then hike 15 minutes up to the overgrown hilltop, and there it is: a piece of 3 1/2 -inch-wide PVC pipe sticking out of the ground.

This is what, at least for the time being, a gold mine looks like.

It also has become a potentially problematic issue for Hillary Rodham Clinton as she considers a second presidential run, after it was revealed this month that in 2013, one of her brothers was added to the advisory board of the company that owns the mine.

Tony Rodham’s involvement with the mine, which has become a source of controversy in Haiti because of concern about potential environmental damage and the belief that the project will primarily benefit foreign investors, was first revealed in publicity about an upcoming book on the Clintons by author Peter Schweizer.

In interviews with The Washington Post, both Rodham and the chief executive of Delaware-based VCS Mining said they were introduced at a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative — an offshoot of the Clinton Foundation that critics have long alleged invites a blurring of its charitable mission with the business interests of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their corporate donors.
...

Rodham, a former repo man, prison guard and private detective, has long been a source of controversy for the Clintons. Among other things, he and his brother, Hugh, caused consternation in the Clinton White House in 1999 for trying to operate a hazelnut-processing business in the Republic of Georgia with political opponents of the Georgian president, who was a U.S. ally at the time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/role-of-hillary-clintons-brother-in-haiti-gold-mine-raises-eyebrows/2015/03/20/c8b6e3bc-cc05-11e4-a2a7-9517a3a70506_story.html


Hillary is risky to nominate because she has stuff like this.

[hrmjustin]

1. Desperate times call for desperate ops.

[Cheese Sandwich]

3. You gotta admit he one hell of a talented business man. Really rising to his god given potential.

Such bootstraps.

[bettyellen]

6. And Chelsea is friends with Ivanka Trump! HRC goes to funerals and weddings where people she fights

are!!

OMG, the horrors.

[cali]

18. One of those is unlike the other two.

[SidDithers]

8. Perfect response...

Sid

[hrmjustin]

9. .

[reformist2]

20. To the family and friends go the spoils!

[ThePhilosopher04]

12. What's desperate about it? I find it extremely troubling. Clinton fan should too.

[msongs]

2. not GDP - her brother is not a candidate. belongs in the bernie forum with lolita nt

[bjo59]

5. It seems GDP to me. The brother benefitted off the sister's foundation, connections, etc. and the

sister is running for the Democratic Party nomination. The post is entirely germane even if it doesn't phase Clinton supporters in the slightest. The is the last election that pro-labor and "great society" Democrats will be messing up for the Third Way wing that has taken over the Democratic Party. Corporatist Republicans will move in with the Corporatist Democrats and things will continue down the globalist path. So relax and enjoy the fact that the party has finally gone far enough to divest itself of those pesky "bleeding hearts" and look forward to all those "sensible" Republicans you'll be able to join forces with in the future. Happy days!

[SMC22307]

4. I figured it would be a sweep...

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Off topic, this has nothing to do with GD-P .. only connection is the person is the brother of Secretary Clinton and it's a smear job.

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[Cheese Sandwich]

7. Oh that's a welcome change. Thank you

[grasswire]

10. I got a hide tonight...

...because when one poster questioned Sanders' droopy eye, I said I was too polite to ask what of Hillary's might be droopy.

No sense of humor out there.

[passiveporcupine]

14. I saw that, and I had to laugh

sorry if that's at your expense...but that was the silliest damn hide I've ever seen.

But not unexpected in these days of turmoil. We are all walking on eggshells.

[grasswire]

16. LOL

and a damned shame it it! Seems incongruous that the people who want to share truth are censored here. Well, mine was a smart-ass joke, no truth involved.

[larkrake]

11. The Clintons utterly carpetbagged Haiti

[dreamnightwind]

13. from his Wikipedia page:

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

Following the 2010 Haiti earthquake and with Bill Clinton co-chair of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, Rodham and some partners proposed a $22 million deal to rebuild homes in the devastated nation, with funding to come from the Clinton Foundation.[5] The deal never went forward and the Clinton Foundation said it was unaware of the proposal.[5] In October 2013, Rodham joined the advisory board of VCS Mining, a Delaware-based company that was planning a gold mine in the Cap-Haïtien Arrondissement area of Haiti.[28] By 2015 the project had become controversial due to possible environmental effects and the level of foreign ownership; for his part Rodham objected to any inference that he had gotten this position due to his family: "I'm a very accomplished person in my own right. I raise money for a lot of people. That's what I basically do."

Tony Rodham is also the man who married Barbara Boxer's daughter

On May 28, 1994, Rodham married Nicole Boxer, daughter of United States Senator from California Barbara Boxer, in a ceremony at the White House attended by 250 guests;[7] it was the first White House wedding since Tricia Nixon married Edward Cox in 1971.[7] They had one son, Zachary, in 1995[8][9] (who later held a unique distinction in that he was simultaneously the grandson and nephew of sitting U.S. senators), before separating by 2000[10] and then getting a divorce.

Reading his wiki page is like a preview of the kind of scandals we can regularly expect if the Clitons return to the White House. We must be crazy to nominate her. Tony has been investigated multiple times for various shady dealings, ugh.

[Cobalt Violet]

19. yeah they are an opportunistic lot.

If she loses in November will they finally go away? I don't see a bush running anytime soon.

[snowy owl]

15. People ignore the money. They don't want to know. Too loyal to want to be informed.

Sunlight Foundation - Hillary's dark money

[John Poet]

17. Is Hillary's brother a beneficiary of the Clinton Foundation?

I was wondering where the money goes...

[bobthedrummer]

21. "The Clinton Global Initiative, an offshoot of The Clinton Foundation..."

[AgingAmerican]

22. This morning Rush Limbaugh was calling her collection of speeches, "A goldmine of material"

...for the General Election.

[lostnfound]

23. Wow,did he get impacted by the minimum wage increase?

Poor guy