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April 16, 2016
Interesting ...
Inside Panama Papers: Multiple Clinton connections
Interesting ...
Inside Panama Papers: Multiple Clinton connections
By Anita Kumar, Marisa Taylor and Kevin G. Hall
McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON
Hillary Clinton recently blasted the hidden financial dealings exposed in the Panama Papers, but she and her husband have multiple connections with people who have used the besieged law firm Mossack Fonseca to establish offshore entities.
Among them are Gabrielle Fialkoff, finance director for Hillary Clintons first campaign for the U.S. Senate; Frank Giustra, a Canadian mining magnate who has traveled the globe with Bill Clinton; the Chagoury family, which pledged $1 billion in projects to the Clinton Global Initiative; and Chinese billionaire Ng Lap Seng, who was at the center of a Democratic fund-raising scandal when Bill Clinton was president. Also using the Panamanian law firm was the company founded by the late billionaire investor Marc Rich, an international fugitive when Bill Clinton pardoned him in the final hours of his presidency.
Were going after all these scams and make sure that everyone pays their fair share here in America, she [Hillary Clinton] said. Im going to hold them accountable, and were going to have a special effort to track all these resources wherever they might lead.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article72215012.html#storylink=cpy
April 15, 2016
What if there were no speeches?
What if somebody just gave her the money and the "speeches" were the cover?
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