This is the slime that the Libs want as a follow-up act to the most destructive presidency this country has ever had...God help us all!

Least surprising report of the week: Foundation headed by Clintons rife with crony capitalist conflicts of interest

By Doug Powers  •  August 15, 2013 02:02 PM

**Written by Doug Powers

The only way I could be more surprised is if I found out Bill still had a wandering eye:

On Wednesday, the New York Times ran a blistering investigative report revealing the Clinton Foundation as a nonprofit rife with crony capitalist conflicts of interest and multi-million dollar deficits despite raking in at least $492 million from 1997 to 2007.

In 2007 and 2008, the Clinton Foundation, which is soon to be renamed the “Bill, Hillary, & Chelsea Clinton Foundation,” ran a $40 million deficit. Last year, it ran a deficit of over $8 million despite the Foundation and two subsidiaries generating $214 million in revenues.
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The New York Times says the cronyism and conflicts have reached critical mass. “The Clinton Foundation had become a sprawling concern, supervised by a rotating board of old Clinton hands, vulnerable to distraction and threatened by conflicts of interest,” reports the Times. “It ran multimillion-dollar deficits for several years, despite vast amounts of money flowing in.”

What difference does it make?

Equally unsurprising, the new Clinton Foundation headquarters will serve as the “nerve center” for Hillary’s expected 2016 push.

Egypt should be a burning reminder of Hillary Clinton's failures

Today, in the interest of "reaching across the aisle," I would like to bestow upon my leftward leaning friends a quick glimpse into their potential future. How have I gained such privileged access to this crystal ball, you ask? Well, it's called a television. And right now as our major news networks are consumed with horrific images of the tragic violence in Egypt, I ask liberals to gaze into their televisions and consider the path along which they are currently plodding. While liberals seem content to anoint Hillary as their choice presidential nominee, ultimately, the future we see displayed on our TV's is the future they will be voting for in 2016. As Sec. of State, Hillary was the key player in the administration that encouraged Mubarak and his "faux-democracy" to step down, promoted the Arab Spring, and supported the Muslim Brotherhood. All of these decisions greatly influenced the constantly devolving situation in the Middle East and they especially contributed to the current crisis in Egypt. But that's not all she's "accomplished" -- in Hillary's five year stint as Secretary of State, she was able to build herself a legacy consisting of mediocre or failed diplomacy in Libya, China, Syria, and Russia. My two-cents to liberals? Learn from her legacy and keep her out of the White House.

NYTIMES:  CLINTON FOUNDATION RIFE WITH  CRONYISM

On Wednesday, the New York Times ran a blistering

investigative report

(http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/us/politics/unease-atclinton-foundation-over-finances-and-ambitions.html?hp&_r=0) revealing the Clinton Foundation as a nonprofit rife with crony

capitalist conflicts of interest and multi-million dollar deficits despite raking in at least $492 million

(http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/18/saudi-arabiabiggest-donors-clinton-foundation/) from 1997 to 2007.

In 2007 and 2008, the Clinton Foundation, which is soon to be renamed the “Bill, Hillary, &

Chelsea Clinton Foundation,” ran a $40 million deficit. Last year, it ran a deficit of over $8

million despite the Foundation and two subsidiaries generating $214 million in revenues.

Hillary Clinton plans to relocate her offices to the Foundation’s Manhattan headquarters in

the weeks to come. Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Clinton

planned to use the Foundation as a “launching pad into 2016,”

(http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/hillary-clinton-family-foundation-95468.html)

a reference to her potential presidential run.

The nexus between Clinton Foundation donors, foreign governments, and corporate

interests has long been a concern to government watchdog groups. As of 2008, the Clinton

Foundation raised at least $46 million from Saudi Arabia

(http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/18/saudi-arabia-biggest-donors-clintonfoundation/), Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei, Oman, and other foreign governments—the very

governments Secretary of State Hillary Clinton eventually negotiated with. Wealthy

foreign investors, like Saudi businessman Nasser Al-Rashid and Indian politician Amar

Singh gave at least $1 million each.

Previous news accounts have chronicled how Clinton Foundation donors have profited. In

2004, New York developer Robert Congel donated $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

Shortly thereafter, Sen. Hillary Clinton reportedly helped the developer bag millions

(http://seattletimes.com/html/politics/2008587879_donations04.html) in federal

assistance for his mall project. Congel and Hillary Clinton’s spokesperson denied any crony

pay-to-play connection

The New York Times says the cronyism and conflicts have reached critical mass. “The

Clinton Foundation had become a sprawling concern, supervised by a rotating board of old

Clinton hands, vulnerable to distraction and threatened by conflicts of interest,” reports

the Times. “It ran multimillion-dollar deficits for several years, despite vast amounts of

money flowing in.”

Despite the apparent fiscal mismanagement, well-connected Clinton allies appear to be

doing quite well. In 2009, Douglas Band, whom Clinton insiders describe as a “kind of

surrogate son to Mr. Clinton,” co-founded Teneo, a consultancy that has since hired

(http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/16/Weiner-s-Wife-Grilled-OverClinton-Crony-Consulting-Gigs) Hillary Clinton confidante and disgraced mayoral

candidate Anthony Weiner spouse Huma Abedin. As the Times explains:

Mr. Band poached executives from Wall Street, recruited other Clinton aides to join

as employees or advisers and set up shop in a Midtown office formerly belonging to

one of the country’s top hedge funds….Teneo worked on retainer, charging monthly

fees as high as $250,000, according to current and former clients. The firm recruited

clients who were also Clinton Foundation donors while Mr. Band and Mr. Kelly

encourage4d others to become new foundation donors….Some Clinton aides and

foundation employees began to wonder where the foundation ended and Teneo

began.

Among Teneo’s earliest clients was now-defunct MF Global, run by disgraced Obama

bundler Jon S. Corzine.

The Times says Chelsea Clinton “became increasingly concerned” that Band and Teneo’s

outside business were negatively impacting the Foundation.

Now, the Times says Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea Clinton are gearing up for a $250 million

fundraising push as Hillary prepares to use the Foundation “as a base for her to home in on

issues and build up a stable of trusted staff members who could form the core of a political

campaign.”