Bill Clinton Profits From Company Tied To Felon, China

Bill Clinton Profits From Company Tied To Felon, China

Washington Times   |  Jim McElhatton   |   March 7, 2008 03:19 PM


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The spring before his wife began her White House campaign, former President Bill Clinton earned $700,000 for his foundation by selling stock that he had been given from an Internet search company that was co-founded by a convicted felon and backed by the Chinese government, public records show.

Mr. Clinton had gotten the nonpublicly traded stock from Accoona Corp. back in 2004 as a gift for giving a speech at a company event. He landed the windfall by selling the 200,000 shares to an undisclosed buyer in May 2006, commanding $3.50 a share at a time when the company was reporting millions of dollars of losses, according to interviews.


 
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More rumor and innuendo on the Clintons. You would think the buffoon who posted this also thinks everyone who owned Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and hundreds of other company"s stock shares or private placements are also somehow involved in that company"s scandal.

Get a REAL scandal. You cannot find any real ones can you. This is why the Clintons have been vetted you dopes. The ginned-up Tax returns and Library issues are intended for you people to go on a witch-hunt and imply more unproven rumor and innuendo ala Starr, who in the end also could not find anything his investigation was originally targeted. After six years.

Trying to orchestrate a scandal just because you want to deflect from Obama who is actually involved in a real one with Rezko is so obvious.

Finally Power on Obamas first foreign relation adventure reflects the true Obama judgment and foreign policy skills, when what you say and do matter. You guys have been drinking your own cool aide or smoking something to even dream that Obama can be effective any time soon in foreign relations given he has a couple of years on the national stage and not even a year on the Global stage. His team has already made two major rookie mistakes on the Global stage and he isn"t even President yet!

1. In Europe, obviously the Hillary comment but also Power revealed that Obama does not have a plan for Iraq and his 18-month retreat is fantasy shot from the hip of a novice and never thought through.

2 Next the confusion around what was said on NAFTA and other issues with the Canadians. It does not matter who is right on NAFTA, you must be able to manage the relationships.

Maybe you International preschoolers think everything will be so *Barney* once Obama is elected. Yet, he has screwed up twice with countries who are our Friends. Can"t wait to see how he will do with our enemies.

The train wreck in the DNC will look like bumper cars compared to the train wreck this international newbie will engineer. It is so obvious that it is getting scary. He is a one note trying to pin the entire Iraq issue on whoever he is attacking, simply because, and I can conclude this now, he was lucky with a riskless speech in 2002. That is his entire tangible rationale for being president! Amazimg!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:43 AM on 03/08/2008

Once again the Clintons are the height of hypocrisy. I used to believe that I could vote for Mrs Bill Clinton if she became the nominee. Now I am not so sure. Her willingness to play the damsel in distress and then go on a vicious attack like a fatally attracted but spurned woman is distasteful to me. Would you really trust this woman to answer the red phone?

Finally, her surrogates continuous and specious referrals to the Rezko trial while the Clintons have more damaging and shady stock trades just lets me know that we will never be able to trust not only Mrs. Bill Clinton's judgement or her words if she ever became the President of the United States.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:07 AM on 03/08/2008

BLUE DRESS DEMOCRATS: Democrats supporting Billary Clinton!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:50 AM on 03/08/2008

Another reason why Hillary will never release her (presumably joint) tax returns as promised.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:41 AM on 03/08/2008


ANOTHER STORY YOU'LL NEVER SEE ON HUFFINGTON ROAST:

On November 8, 2007, Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times reported on a story by Marc Ambinder in The Atlantic in which Ambinder revealed that the Obama campaign had been behind the outing of Hsu:[29]

Barack Obama"s presidential campaign "scored a significant hit" against chief rival Hillary Rodham Clinton "by helping to place" a story about tainted Democratic donor Norman Hsu ...
The story, titled Teacher and Apprentice by associate editor Marc Ambinder, describes how Obama campaign staffers were "frustrated" because the press was not covering Clinton "in the way they expected it would."

"¦And at a campaign event in Iowa, one of Obama"s aides plopped down next to me and spoke even more bluntly. He wanted to know when reporters would begin to look into Bill Clinton"s postpresidential sex life," Ambinder writes. ...

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Norman_Hsu

HOWEVER, THE REAL IRONY IS -- NORMAN HSU RAISED FUNDS FOR OBAMA TOO

Before becoming a major bundler for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, disgraced Democratic donor Norman Hsu helped host a 2005 California event for Barack Obama's political action committee and introduced the senator from Illinois to one of the biggest fundraisers for his presidential bid.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/07/AR2007090703047.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:04 AM on 03/08/2008
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LOL Norman was a bagman thief.. everyone in the chinatown community knew this. If Eddie Chan didn't vouch for him .. he would have been finished many years ago. His job was to continue funneling funds to All politicians including the DNC. The bigger the Politician the more cash was doled out. Obama was a new commer to the scene... of course he was tasked to dole out the cash,,, btw the Republicans also got funds. But Norman gave over $1million Dollars to Hillary Clinton's Senate and Presidential campaign. You think that Triad party bosses are philantropists? I assure you they are not.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:15 AM on 03/08/2008

Ok, I'll play Political Poker with you. I raise you Carlos Vignali, Almon Braswell, Mark Rich (pardoned & wife gave Hillary campaign funds and Bill library money), Mehmet Celebi, Oscar Wyatt, Ron Burkle, Frank Giustra, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid (Dubai), Peter Paul (fraud lawsuit AND alleged campaign finance fraud), Keith Raniere (NXIVM), International Profit Associates.

Some of those are Billary transgressions but many are Hillary's. Give up? I've got lots more where that came from.

Trump card: Hillary Clinton endorsed John McCain 3 times in the past week for president.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:35 AM on 03/08/2008
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Um, well, the name Norman Hsu actually first came up in the 1996 Presidential election. You remember that year, don't you? There were actually some hearings in Congress concerning that. So tell us again how "Obama's campaign brought that out."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:50 AM on 03/08/2008
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Normans picture actually comes out sooner than that. During United States Senate, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, Asian Organized Crime. A Chart was produced showing Triad and US Tong hierachy charts... at the very bottom in the gang affiliate section there is the gang hierachy sub part. Gang leadership, lieutenants foot soldiers and associattes are listed including some photo's idiot Norman shows up as being a lowly associate of the gang controlled by Tong Leader Eddie Chan...1984,1989, 1993 are the key sub committee hearings. I'm not sure which hearing his picture was in. To narrow it down it was the hearing were a witness that was ( a protected federal witness) hidden behind a screen and had his voice altered when he testified before the committee.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:17 AM on 03/08/2008
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Billary's ties to a particular faction of the chinese organized group has been well documented. The american public is so slow to catch on. go back in history just a little bit... Everything is connected no other politician in american history has the ties that the Clintons have. Remeber this is only the documented stuff.

A tiny glimpse of history may be in order; for those too young too remember:

Charle Trie
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/op080397.htm

Norman Hsu's Boss Chan Tse-Chiu aka Eddie Chan
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2D6173AF931A3575AC0A966958260

Norman
The return Of Dollar Bill's magic money men ... err pass it on to Hillary please...
Norman
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=5643329

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:04 AM on 03/08/2008

Maybe she was just 'associating' with Hsu so she could 'bring equality to the Chinese women". You know, along with "bringing peace to Northern Ireland"?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:09 PM on 03/08/2008

with all the hate i've been reading here, to follow this logic, laura bush must be on her way to jail, too. she obviously is in colusion with everything bush has done illagal in the country and against our costitution

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:48 PM on 03/07/2008

I agree with you. Hillary claims being married to him makes her qualified to lead by osmosis, that she soaked up his experience from him. So she doesn't get to pick and choose what qualities she absorbed. She's actually had her own hands in her own cookie jars over the years.

If there was a remote off-chance that she's not corrupt, I would think that someone that claims she can deal with the entire world's big problems that she could keep her own house clean.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:26 AM on 03/08/2008

now let's talk about rudy giuliani, or maybe john mc cain's ties with lobbyists- any body seen or heard from the girl friend lately? what happened to her if nothing was going on?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:40 PM on 03/07/2008

BOTTOM LINE

Bill and Hillary are 1st class liars. They don't care about the middle class, the working class, etc.
All Bill and Hillary care about is lining their own pockets.

Let's Go Obama!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:29 PM on 03/07/2008

By Hillary's definition of experience - Yes.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:13 AM on 03/08/2008

It's imperative that Obama kick Hillary's rear-end in Pensylvania, so that the country can be spared 4 more years of Clintonian toxic sludge

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:16 PM on 03/07/2008

"The Clintons' Terror Pardons" --- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, FEB 12, '08 ---http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120277819085260827.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

the New York Times published an investigative news story that discovered Bill brokered a uranium deal in Kazakhstan that led to a $31.3 million donation to his Clinton Global Initiative. The deal included a midnight dinner with the President of Kazakhstan. Clinton spokespersons denied the event occurred until the New York Times produced a photo of the event from an aide to President Nazarbayev.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html?ex=1359435600&en=23a4d96223965ebf&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:06 PM on 03/07/2008

lobbyists love Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, the No. 1 recipient of lobbyist cash, receiving $823,000 in 2007 from the lobbying industry, which gave about $2.7 million overall.

Lawyers and law firms have contributed more than any other industry, giving $46.6 million. Democrats got 77 percent of that, with Clinton the top recipient.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/military-donors.html


Defense Industry Embraces Democrats, Hillary By Far The Favorite

The defense industry this year abandoned its decade-long commitment to the Republican Party, funneling the lion share of its contributions to Democratic presidential candidates, especially to Hillary Clinton who far out-paced all her competitors.

An examination of contributions of $500 or more, using the Huffington Post's Fundrace website, shows that employees of the top five arms makers - Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, Raytheon and General Dynamics -- gave Democratic presidential candidates $103,900, with only $86,800 going to Republicans.

Senator Clinton took in $52,600, more than half of the total going to all Democrats, and a figure equaling 60 percent of the sum going to the entire GOP field. Her closest competitor for defense industry money is former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R.), who raised $32,000.

Insofar as defense workers making political donations reflect the interests of their employers, the contributions clearly suggest that the arms industry has reach the conclusion that Democratic prospects for 2008 are very good indeed. Since their profits are so heavily dependent on government contracts, companies in this field want to be sure they do not have hostile relations with the White House.

The strong support for Clinton indicates that a majority of defense industry executives currently believe Clinton is a favorite to win the Democratic nomination and, in November, 2008, the general election.


Mama Warbucks

But it was enough to leave them with a sense of optimism. One manager, who kept marveling that "someone so powerful would come to visit us," said how fortunate the local defense industry is. "Having Hillary on that committee will bring business back to these facilities."

It's a sentiment echoed over and over by local defense experts, most of whom have nothing but praise for the senator. "I haven't heard anyone say anything negative," says U.S. Congressman Peter King, a Long Island Republican. "They are pleased with her, and they tell me that every chance they get."

Adds George Hockbrueckner, a D.C. lobbyist for New York defense companies: "She gets the job done, and people love her for it."

And why wouldn't they? Defense and military folks give Clinton high marks for listening to their concerns, promoting their products, leveraging her ties to the Pentagon "in effect, for classic constituent services.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0518,lombardi,63597,5.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:25 PM on 03/07/2008

lobbyists love Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, the No. 1 recipient of lobbyist cash, receiving $823,000 in 2007 from the lobbying industry, which gave about $2.7 million overall.

Lawyers and law firms have contributed more than any other industry, giving $46.6 million. Democrats got 77 percent of that, with Clinton the top recipient.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/military-donors.html

Defense Industry Embraces Democrats, Hillary By Far The Favorite

The defense industry this year abandoned its decade-long commitment to the Republican Party, funneling the lion share of its contributions to Democratic presidential candidates, especially to Hillary Clinton who far out-paced all her competitors.

An examination of contributions of $500 or more, using the Huffington Post's Fundrace website, shows that employees of the top five arms makers - Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, Raytheon and General Dynamics -- gave Democratic presidential candidates $103,900, with only $86,800 going to Republicans.

Senator Clinton took in $52,600, more than half of the total going to all Democrats, and a figure equaling 60 percent of the sum going to the entire GOP field. Her closest competitor for defense industry money is former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R.), who raised $32,000.

Insofar as defense workers making political donations reflect the interests of their employers, the contributions clearly suggest that the arms industry has reach the conclusion that Democratic prospects for 2008 are very good indeed. Since their profits are so heavily dependent on government contracts, companies in this field want to be sure they do not have hostile relations with the White House.

The strong support for Clinton indicates that a majority of defense industry executives currently believe Clinton is a favorite to win the Democratic nomination and, in November, 2008, the general election.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/17/defense-industry-embraces_n_68927.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:29 PM on 03/07/2008

And the military war profiteering complex is not expecting anything in return for donating all that money to Hillary.

Gee, did that have any influence at all on her war votes? Just asking.

Me, personally, I am still trying to figure out how you can go from being dead broke and owing money in 2000 and by 2008 you have $50 million and can loan yourself $5 million from your checking account. I think I'd be hiding my tax records too.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:42 AM on 03/08/2008

This is why from "I didn't inhale" that I loathe the Clintons. Not once, NEVER, have they ever owned a single imperfection. Obama openly has volunteered information about things from his past of which he's not proud. Even admitted on the property in Chicago with Rezko that it was a boneheaded move. Do you think a Clinton would have owned these things without trying to hide behind a smokescreen or ask for the definition of prepositions and conjunctions when lies weren't enough? No. Heck, we all know Bush to not be a good man but when confronted with his past he's acknowledged them all. Great character is defined by accepting your accountability. Imagine, even G-Dub has more character than does a Clinton.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:33 AM on 03/08/2008

Come on Hillary, come forward with the tax returns and list of Clinton Presidential Library donors so we will know the desperation you show for the POTUS position is not because you and Bill have become extremely beholden to questionable or foreign interests!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:51 PM on 03/07/2008
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All of this could be easily cleared up with the release of her tax records, and list of donors. How simple. Until then, speculation will aobund...so if you wish to ensure that your mistress stays unscathed, the press her to release her squeaky clean tax records, white house papers, and whatever else needs disclosure...unless...god forbid, you think she has something to hide??

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:20 PM on 03/07/2008



I'm going to start calling this website: "Huffington Roast"

Headline reads:

"Bill Clinton Profits From Company Tied To Felon, China."

I go to read the entire 2-page article and I find,

QUOTE:

"The China Daily Information Co., or CDIC, a subsidiary of the Chinese-controlled newspaper China Daily, holds nearly a 7 percent stake in Accoona, records show. Mr. Zammit said CDIC also has no management role."

7% ... China owns a whole whopping SEVEN PERCENT of this company and has no management role. Now read further to find out how much of this company the felon owns.

QUOTE:

Accoona, based in Jersey City, N.J., was co-founded by Armand Rousso, who as of last year held more than 14 percent of the company's shares.

14% ... The Felon owns FOURTEEN PERCENT of this company. And another point to not -- the felon became a felon more than a year after Clinton received a stock gift for his speech.

So let's cruicify Clinton for not being PSYCHIC and knowing in advance this man would be arrested.

And let's crucify Clinton for giving a speech at a company that the Chinese government has a SEVEN PERCENT interest in.

Last quote from same article:

"Sheila Krumholz, executive director for the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, which studies political money and ethics, said even though the law doesn't require former presidents to disclose donations and stock transactions to their foundations, they should do so to avoid the appearance that money was buying special access."

See? The LAW DOES NOT REQUIRE HIM TO DISCLOSE THIS INFORMATION.

Gee - what can that mean? HE did nothing illegal.

And I don't know why China in the headline is such a bug-a-boo, at the moment the USA is in debt to China for close to a trillion bucks. Yep - CHINA is our banker. Our nation is in debt to China.

But let's crucify Bill Clinton for a gift given to his foundation from a company in which China has a 7-percent interest.











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    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:05 PM on 03/07/2008
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The MSM needs to ask Hillary about Peter Paul.

Search google and youtube.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:14 PM on 03/07/2008
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You know why I say this? Because this stuff is all over the internet, so it's no secret to the Republican swiftboaters. If she plans on being the nominee, she should go ahead and get this crap out of the way because it is out there. Tell us what is going on with this, Hillary. If you don't and it turns out to be something, then you are just sabotaging the Democratic Party with your silence. Don't fool yourself. The Republicans are already planning to bring this up so you'd better have an answer.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:43 PM on 03/07/2008

I checked a legal site -- there is no such case filed anywhere.

About the CON MAN Peter F. Paul (his middle initial must stand for FRAUD) who is SUING Bill Clinton, supposedly. I checked a legal site -- there is no such active case filed anywhere in CA.

So I go to "Con Watch" and find this about Peter Paul, QUOTE:

Under the Carter administration, he was convicted for cocaine possession and an attempt to bilk Cuban dictator Fidel Castro of $8 million.

He ascribes that to politics, arguing he was embraced by Ronald Reagan's kitchen cabinet, which "realized the problems I had were more related to being gung ho about removing Castro."

Paul's current felony -- his role in a $25 million stock scam involving Stan Lee Media, which Paul co-founded with the comic-book legend. ..."Paul pleaded guilty to one count of violating Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on the trading of his stock. He insists his actions did not defraud shareholders, and that, in fact, he lost money in the transaction." Paul faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and a maximum fine of $5 million for the charge to which he pleaded guilty.

Paul's LIES: Paul claims that "the Clinton Justice Department had him jailed while he was in Brazil and then extradicted [sic] to the United States."

In fact, as the U.S. attorney's office points out, the original indictment against Paul was not issued until June 2001, and he was arrested in Brazil in August 2001 -- months after the Clinton administration left office and, thus, no longer ran the Justice Department.

http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2005/wndpaul.html

And Peter Paul is bio'd on Wiki:

Paul alleged that Clinton was deceitful in this,[33] and retained public interest law firm, and frequent Clinton opponent, Judicial Watch to represent him in a series of civil and criminal lawsuits against the Clintons, the Clinton campaign, and ultimately the Federal Election Commission (which he charged was negligent in failing to convict Mrs. Clinton).[34][35][36][37] T

These charges were delayed, as courts held that Paul could not bring charges against the Clintons as he fought extradition from Brazil,[38] but proceeded once he was returned to the States.[39]

Paul's claims have not found traction. An audit by the Federal Elections Commission found that neither Senator Clinton nor her Senate campaign had accepted any illegal funds in connection with the Hollywood fundraiser[40], though the campaign was asked to pay $35,000 in fines for having underreported the cost of the party.[41]

Paul's suit against the FEC was thrown out; his attempt to bring ethics charges against Clinton were rejected,[42] and his fraud charges against Senator Clinton were tossed out in April 2006.[43]

Paul continued to press civil charges against Senator Clinton and former President Clinton for "looting"[44] his business, but the courts refused to allow him to sue Senator Clinton, with the appellate court specifying that her behavior had been "perfectly legal," and allowing her to recoup her legal fees from Paul.[40]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_F._Paul#_note-30

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:12 PM on 03/07/2008
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Well, then, this has been a good exercise. The whole point is this: Can the candidate, whether it is Hillary or Obama, withstand scrutiny? Can the candidate answer these charges, however false they may be? Remember, the charges the swiftboaters used against John Kerry were not true, either. Neither are the charges that Obama is a Muslim. But these crazy charges require a response. John Kerry lost because he did not have a response that was quick enough. I do not want to get to September only to find out that we've got a major problem. Better to get everything out in the open now when it can be dealth with. And if there is nothing to hide, then bring it on.

Don't you understand that is why we are being so nasty to each other? We are trying to force the truth out into the open, whether it's Clinton or Obama.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:14 PM on 03/07/2008
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