Hillary Helps a Bank—and Then It Funnels Millions to the Clintons

[Teddy Pollins]

Hillary Helps a Bank and Then It Funnels Millions to the Clintons - Yahoo News
I am not surprised with every stupid story about Hillary.
How is it possible that Clinton is the presumed front runner? With all of the baggage she comes with, she should be out there with Trump, tilting at windmills.
She is too old and too bad for this chair.

 

[Blackrook]

What Hillary lacks in good looks and charisma, she more than makes up for in cunning and deception. She would make an excellent dictator for a third world country.

 

[The Irish Ram]

She's too evil for this chair.
Hitlery --> uranium--Russia-- Iran--Hamas.

 

[buddhallah_the_christ]

Hillary is ever exposed to critics. Moreover she deserves it. Good to know that some people can be counted on to fall in line and not question the presumptive nominee. Sure, Hillary, keep shoveling that cash, let's keep this train on the track.

 

[Jackson]

Hillary Helps a Bank—and Then It Funnels Millions to the Clintons



The Swiss bank UBS is one of the biggest, most powerful financial institutions in the world. As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton intervened to help it out with the IRS. And after that, the Swiss bank paid Bill Clinton $1.5 million for speaking gigs. TheWall Street Journal reported all that and more Thursday in an article that highlights huge conflicts of interest that the Clintons have created in the recent past.

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The piece begins by detailing how Clinton helped the global bank.

“A few weeks after Hillary Clinton was sworn in as secretary of state in early 2009, she was summoned to Geneva by her Swiss counterpart to discuss an urgent matter. The Internal Revenue Service was suing UBS AG to get the identities of Americans with secret accounts,” the newspaper reports. “If the case proceeded, Switzerland’s largest bank would face an impossible choice: Violate Swiss secrecy laws by handing over the names, or refuse and face criminal charges in U.S. federal court. Within months, Mrs. Clinton announced a tentative legal settlement—an unusual intervention by the top U.S. diplomat. UBS ultimately turned over information on 4,450 accounts, a fraction of the 52,000 sought by the IRS.”



If you’re Bill Clinton and your wife has recently intervened, in her capacity as a cabinet secretary, to help a giant corporation avert a significant threat to its bottom-line, the very least you could do, if only to avoid the appearance of impropriety, is to avoid negotiating seven-figure paydays with that same corporation. This is particularly jaw-dropping because ultra-wealthy Bill Clinton has virtually unlimited opportunities to give lucrative speeches to any number of audiences not directly implicated by decisions that his wife made as secretary of state.

But maximizing the Clinton family’s wealth and power requires him to speak beforethe very wealthiestpaymasters. And that’s exactly what the ex-president has done.

As McClatchynoted last monthin a more broadly focused article that also mentions UBS, “Ten of the world’s biggest financial institutions––including UBS, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs––have hired Bill Clinton numerous times since 2004 to speak for fees totaling more than $6.4 million. Hillary Clinton also has accepted speaking fees from at least one bank. And along with an 11th bank, the French giant BNP Paribas, the financial goliaths also donated as much as $24.9 million to theClinton Foundation––the family’s global charity set up to tackle causes from the AIDS epidemic in Africa to climate change.”

Hillary Helps a Bank and Then It Funnels Millions to the Clintons - Yahoo News

And the dough keeps coming in...improper or not to the "Clinton Foundation, that is Bill, Hillary and Chelsea."

 

[PaintMyHouse]

The best government, or potential government, that money can buy. Enjoy.

 

[Moonglow]

What Hillary lacks in good looks and charisma, she more than makes up for in cunning and deception. She would make an excellent dictator for a third world country.

Yeah, old Trump with his live action comb over is a regular dandy of a Cary Grant...

 

[Jackson]

What Hillary lacks in good looks and charisma, she more than makes up for in cunning and deception. She would make an excellent dictator for a third world country.

Yeah, old Trump with his live action comb over is a regular dandy of a Cary Grant...

Really? Is that all you've got?

 

[Moonglow]

What Hillary lacks in good looks and charisma, she more than makes up for in cunning and deception. She would make an excellent dictator for a third world country.

Yeah, old Trump with his live action comb over is a regular dandy of a Cary Grant...

Really? Is that all you've got?

No, but I didn't want to get your hopes up..........