About That John Ashe Story….

Hat tip to Bob for the unsurprising story that lead to this post.

Chris wrote in comments that this report from Snopes settles the matter regarding the mysterious death of John Ashe. Chris always thinks he’s found just the source to discredit items with potential to harm Hillary and the Democrats once and for all…typical authoritarian. But Chris is a poor communicator. He operates on belief system, partisan politics, and (noticeable) bigotry toward those who do not think as he does. Let’s examine what was in that Snopes article:

WHAT’S TRUE: Former UN Official John Ashe died in June 2016 at his Dobbs Ferry home. His death was initially misreported as a heart attack rather than an accident, and he was about to begin pre-trial meetings related to corruption charges at the time he died.

WHAT’S FALSE: Ashe’s corruption trial wasn’t set to begin just days after his death, and he wasn’t going to testify against Hillary Clinton.

Okay, while it’s true that Ashe wasn’t scheduled to testify “against” Hillary Clinton specifically, it IS TRUE that he was set to answer questions related to “corruption charges” regarding ” Hillary Clinton and “co-defendant” Chinese billionaire Ng.”

So who is this Ng character? Back to Bob’s source, Mac Slavo of Zero Hedge. He calls attention to the thing that makes a possible conspiracy believable: “Call it conspiracy theory, coincidence or just bad luck, but any time someone is in a position to bring down Hillary Clinton by testifying they wind up dead.”:

Now, another official has found himself on the wrong end of the Clintons. That John Ashe was a former President of the United Nations General Assembly highlights the fact that no one is safe once in their sights. … The New York Post’s Page Six reported that after Ashe was found dead Wednesday, the U.N. claimed that he had died from a heart attack. Local police officers in Dobbs Ferry, New York, later disputed that claim, saying instead that he died from a workout accident that crushed his throat.

Adding to the mysterious nature of Ashe’s death was the fact that he had been slated to be in court Monday with his Chinese businessman co-defendant Ng Lap Seng, from whom he reportedly received over $1 billion in donations during his term as president of the U.N. General Assembly.

And then there is this: During the presidency of Bill Clinton, Seng , [Ng] illegally funneled several hundred thousand dollars to the Democrat National Committee.

Hmmm…lets dig deeper. In April 2016 McClatchy reported on the Panama Papers, the scandal involving off shore accounts:

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 Clinton’s first campaign for the U.S. Senate; Frank Giustra, a Canadian mining magnate who has traveled the globe with Bill Clinton; a member of 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.

More here:

Ng Lan Seng, currently incarcerated in the U.S. on charges of bribery in the John Ashe case, has close ties to the Clinton family and the Democratic National Committee, not only being a major donor to the Clinton Foundation in recent times but also pleading guilty to a felony for illegal contributions to the DNC in a Democratic fund-raising scandal towards the end of Bill Clinton’s presidency and the beginning of Al Gore’s presidential campaign. In 1998, a Senate committee reported Ng, of Macau, China, sent $1.1 million to Little Rock, Arkansas restaurateur, Yah Lin, who in turn contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Democratic National Committee for years on Ng’s behalf. Ng’s relationship with the Clintons is well documented as he had visited the White House 10 times from 1994 to 1996 and had his photograph taken with President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, as seen in the attached photo from ABC News. Ng was also, according to court papers, served in July 2014 with a subpoena to appear Sept. 17, 2014 in connection with an unrelated investigation, but never showed up.

USA Today reports on Ng’s recent incarceration,

At a bail hearing Saturday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Richenthal described Yin, a U.S. citizen, as Ng’s right-hand man in his U.S. operations, someone who played a key role in transmitting funds.

The prosecutor said Yin spoke to law enforcement after his Saturday arrest, admitting he transmitted money on Ng’s behalf to pay people to do unlawful things, though Yin interrupted the prosecutor, saying: “That is not true,” according to a hearing transcript.

Federal Defender Sabrina Shroff, representing Yin, said at the hearing that her client, educated in the United States with family here, may have served as Ng’s “mouthpiece” but the cash and the investments were not Yin’s.

“He doesn’t know what Mr. Seng is doing with the money at the end of the day,” Shroff said.

Ng’s arrest occurred in September of 2015 and spurred the investigation into John Ashe when authorities discovered Ng had, according to Manhattan federal court papers, smuggled over $4.5 million into the United States over several years with the excuse that he had used the money for gambling and buying paintings from art dealers. According to the New York District Attorney Preet Bharara and the FBI, Ng and Yin were previously arrested on September 19, 2015, based on a separate complaint alleging that Ng agreed to make false statements to Customs and Border Protection officers about the true purpose of the cash that Ng and Yin had brought into the U.S. from China since 2013.

There’s a big freakin’ cloud of smoke around Hillary and Bill Clinton. We owe it to ourselves to see every stick of material that sourced the fire!

People like Chris who can casually dismiss evidence of corruption, including a criminal investigation involving Hillary’s time at State as well as possible ties to her Foundation, should concern any American…our leaders must be held accountable! Our nation is grounded and supported by the rule of law. If the courts are seen to be corrupt then the very foundation of the nation is compromised. The law must apply to all citizens, even the wealthy power couple Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Evidence of corruption and wrong doing is serious and should be taken seriously. Suspicion of criminality should be thoroughly investigated and, when appropriate, brought to trial WITHOUT political interference. Attempts to dismiss and minimize Hillary’s legal troubles indicate deep moral corruption and stupidity among too many in our citizenry.

Related: The FBI may, should, or could be asking Putin for copies of Hillary’s emails. I say, whatever it takes. The destruction of that server alone should have spelled the destruction of Hillary’s political career, and would have, if not for the likes of her many apologists both professional and nonprofessional.

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28 Responses to About That John Ashe Story….

  1. bob says:

    Thank you for the research.

    The fact is the Clintons are more crooked than a dogs hind leg. They live in a cesspool of corruption and are hardcore psychopathic criminals.

    Check this out:


    Slush funds to pay ‘personal consultant’ Huma Abedin, a $34,000 a night Caribbean holiday for daughter Chelsea and payoffs to silence Bill’s sex accusers – How Hillary has used donations to the Clinton Foundation as her ‘personal piggy bank’

    The money that was donated to help earthquake victims in India and Haiti and HIV/AIDs sufferers has mostly enriched the Clintons

    The Clinton family also schemed to monetize the White House
    Hillary used her position as Secretary of State to leverage lucrative deals for the Foundation as well as six-figure speaking fees for Bill Clinton
    The scheme engineered through the Foundation has enriched the Clintons by hundreds of millions of dollars

    It also added $2billion to the Clinton Foundation and raised $1billion for Hillary’s second run for the presidency

    The Clinton Foundation is ‘a philanthropic foundation the Clintons appear to use as a personal piggy bank’

    The Clinton Foundation is ‘a vast, criminal conspiracy’ and ‘a slush fund for grifters’ with thousands of honest people who are victims after contributing their hard-earned money to what they believed would be used for philanthropic causes.

    In truth, the money that was donated to help earthquake victims in India and Haiti and HIV/AIDs sufferers in the Third World has mostly enriched the Clintons and their friends through scams spanning the globe, claims author Jerome Corsi in his book, Partners in Crime: The Clintons’ Scheme to Monetize the White House for Personal Profit, which will be published in August.

    Driven by insatiable greed while crying they were near-broke, the couple schemed and Hillary used her position as secretary of state to leverage lucrative deals for the Foundation as well as six-figure speaking fees for Bill Clinton.

    In 2001, Clinton had to pay the Arkansas Bar Association $25,000 for lying under oath that he ‘did not have sex with that woman’, Monica Lewinsky.

    He had to pay Paula Jones $850,000 three years earlier to drop the sexual harassment lawsuit.

    Their legal bills in defense of Whitewater affair and the Lewinsky scandal were estimated to be as high as $10.6million.

    While declaring themselves essentially broke in 2001, the Clintons walked away with $360,000 worth of White House furnishings.

    They were inspired to make money and they did – some $230 million over the next fourteen years through speaking engagements, book deals and consulting gigs.

    And there’s more than just Corsi’s book. Others have investigated these criminals and their crimes are jaw-dropping.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3659123/Slush-funds-pay-personal-consultant-Huma-Abedin-luxe-Caribbean-holiday-daughter-Chelsea-payoffs-silence-Bill-s-sex-accusers-Hillary-used-donations-Clinton-Foundation-personal-piggy-bank.html

    • Tina says:

      The Clintons are corrupt elitists and there’s evidence everywhere but you have to be willing to see it…you have to be willing to see it is how they run their lives and always have.

      Huffington Post, “Are the Saudis Terrorists or Philanthropists? The Clintons Can’t Decide”

      The New York Times and The Washington Post are both sited in an article at Slate, “The Clinton Foundation’s Foreign Dealings Are Looking Ugly for Hillary”

      MSNBC, “Clinton Foundation tied to uranium deal: NYT- Canadian records are cited to show the chairman of Uranium One made more than $2M in donations which the Clinton Foundation reportedly did not disclose.”

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/foreign-governments-gave-millions-to-foundation-while-clinton-was-at-state-dept/2015/02/25/31937c1e-bc3f-11e4-8668-4e7ba8439ca6_story.html“>Washington Post, “Foreign governments gave millions to foundation while Clinton was at State Dept.”

      Most of the contributions were possible because of exceptions written into the foundation’s 2008 agreement, which included limits on foreign-government donations.

      <acau Business Daily, “Ng Lap Seng companies tied to Panama Papers”

      A list of offshore companies used by individuals with ties to the Clinton family has emerged as part of the Panama Papers investigation and contains corporations linked to billionaire Ng Lap Seng according to a publication under the umbrella of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), reported Hoje Macau yesterday. McClatchy Newspapers – who worked in concert with the ICIJ on the leaks – lists the businessman as ‘at the centre of the Democratic fund-raising scandal when Bill Clinton was President.’

      The two companies in question are registered in the British Virgin Islands and both list Ng as a shareholder. The offshore company of the South News International Group Ltd. was the most recently established of the two, set up in May 2010, while the older GOLUCK Ltd. was established in 2004.

      Regarding Ng’s ties to the Clinton’s McClatchy reports that Ng was accused of sending over US$1.1 million to a Little Rock restaurant owner who consequently contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Democratic National Committee. Restaurant owner Charlie Trie pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance laws but Ng was never charged despite a congressional report criticising the businessman for failing to co-operate in the investigation, reported the publication.

      Ng reportedly visited the White House 10 times between 1994 and 1996, with his photo taken on various occasions with both Bill and Hillary Clinton, McClatchy reports.

      Last year, Ng was charged with bribing John Ashe, a former ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United Nations General Assembly from 2013 to 2014.

      Independent Sentinel, “Lest We Forget Chinagate, The Most Serious Scandal in US History”

      The “Chinagate” fundraising scandal plagued the 1996 Bill Clinton-Al Gore campaign and Hillary was very much involved. Chinagate aka Commercegate is the most serious scandal in U.S. history. It involves the transfer of America’s most sensitive technology, including but not limited to nuclear missile and satellite technology, apparently in exchange for millions of dollars in contributions to the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election effort and the Democratic National Committee.

      The Chinagate scandal of 1996 ended up in an award of 900,000 in attorney’s fees and costs to Judicial Watch ten years later.

      The scandal was an apparent scheme by the Clinton administration to sell seats on taxpayer-funded trade missions in exchange for campaign contributions to the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign.

      Judicial Watch began an investigation and Clinton administration officials deliberately concealed and destroyed records regarding the trade mission and testimony was falsified.

      Nolanda Hill, a business partner and confidante of the Clinton then-Commerce Secretary Ron Brown testified in a court hearing during the litigation that the Clinton White House told Brown to “delay the [Judicial Watch] case by withholding the production of documents prior to the 1996 elections and to devise a way not to comply with the court’s orders.”

      She also testified that Brown, who died in a plane crash during a trade mission to Bosnia, told her that Hillary conceived of the scheme to sell trade mission seats. Brown complained of being “Hillary’s blankety-blank tour guide.”

      The case was so serious and so damaging that the Commerce Department asked for a judgment against itself to avoid any further revelations. The court refused and insisted the Commerce Department conduct a new search for trade mission records and authorized discovery into the illegal concealment and destruction of government records.

      Congressional investigations, FEC investigations, a criminal inquiry by the Justice Department and the FBI followed. The DOC changed its trade mission policy which abandoned all political contributions affecting mission seats.

      Finally, in 2006, without any fanfare, an appellate court upheld an award of 900,000 to Judicial Watch.

      While there was a lot of circumstantial evidence, there was never a smoking gun.

      ~ Clinton friend Yah Lin “Charlie” Trie pleaded guilty to charges of violating campaign finance rules in exchange for having pending indictments dropped against him in Washington and Arkansas.

      ~ According to news reports in 1997, Democratic donor Johnny Chung received a $150,000 transfer from the Bank of China three days before he handed then-First Lady Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff a $50,000 check.

      ~ Then-Vice President Al Gore received political donations from Buddhist nuns who had taken a vow of poverty.

      ~ President Clinton admitted in 1997 that he invited major campaign donors to spend the night in the White House. The Clintons hosted 404 overnight guests.

      ~ During the investigation by the Department of Justice, about 120 people connected to “Chinagate” either fled the country or pleaded the Fifth Amendment to prevent testifying.

      We do not want these two back in the White House.

  2. bob says:

    ‘All years from 2001 onward when the Clinton Foundation operated are not audited as required, so it is difficult to be precise, but total Clinton Foundation fraud runs to hundreds of millions of dollars’, Ortel told the publisher WND, ‘with diversions for political purposes and personal enrichment likely to exceed $200 million’.

    I wonder how the Demonrat apologists who infest this blog will explain that one away…

    • bob says:

      I knew you’d say that. I know you hate Corsi. Why don’t you dispute Corsi’s claims? And that article sites a Forbes reporter and the other person they sited, Ortel, has nothing to do with WND. Many investigators have exposed Clinton criminality but you are too brainwashed to comprehend that.

  3. bob says:

    And it just doesn’t stop.

    As a New York State Senator, Hillary Clinton worked to create a climate that supported ethanol investments pursued by her husband’s friends and her political supporters’.

    When forced to reveal her 2000-2007 tax returns, they showed that Burkle’s fund had paid Bill Clinton $15million in consulting fees between 2003 and 2007.

    Bill Clinton spent so much time flying on Burkle’s custom Boeing 757 jet, it became known as ‘Air F**k One’, Corsi writes.

    Clinton always made a habit of flying on rich businessmen’s planes.

    He had been a frequent flyer taking as many as twenty-six trips between 2001 and 2003 on now-convicted pedophile Jeffery Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ that flew junkets around the world with underage girls or just flew directly to Little St James Island, East of Puerto Rico in the US Virgin Islands, where they continued their private romp.
    Bill Clinton also took as many as twenty-six trips between 2001 and 2003 on now-convicted pedophile Jeffery Epstein’s (pictured) ‘Lolita Express’

    Bill Clinton also took as many as twenty-six trips between 2001 and 2003 on now-convicted pedophile Jeffery Epstein’s (pictured) ‘Lolita Express’

    Epstein, a 63-year old wealthy American financier and major donor to the Democratic Party, owned the Boeing 727 that had earned its Nabokov-nickname because it was reportedly outfitted with a bed large enough for group sex, Corsi writes.

    Female passengers were identified on manifests by their initials or first names that always included the girl’s name, ‘Tatiana’.

    The billionaire used traffickers to procure girls as young as 12 years old who could service his pals on ‘Orgy Island’.

    And there’s even more…unbelievable…how on earth could Hillary ever be elected? How on earth can the liberals who infest this blog vote for such a criminal?

  4. Pie Guevara says:

    Thank you Post Scripts. Thank you Bob. That needed to be said.

  5. Libby says:

    People, the case has nothing to do with Hillary … at all. It does have to to with this Ng guy, who did arrange illegal campaign contributions to the Clintons … 16 years ago. But when the Clintons found out the monies were illegal, they gave it back.

    Ya got nothing … but the worst case of political gullibility ever.

    • bob says:

      Nothing???

      It is overwhelmingly obvious that all of the Clintons and their cronies are criminals but you are so brainwashed you can’t comprehend that. You are just as brainwashed as the people at Jonestown.

    • Tina says:

      Libby you don’t know that it had “nothing to do with Hillary” and now that Ashe has turned up dead we’ll never know what he knew.

      Have you seen a photo of Ashe? He doesn’t strike me as a man that would “accidentally” drop a barbell on his neck…big guy, obviously fit. This accident is about as believable as Harry Reid’s little accident.

      • Libby says:

        Weight lifting without a spotter is just the sort of thing big guys will do, getting themselves seriously injured and/or killed. A big sweaty palm is even more dangerous than a little sweaty palm.

        You’re fantasizing. Bill Clinton is no Joe Kennedy.

      • Libby says:

        Now there’s a thought. If we put her on the receiving end, maybe, finally, she will get how uncool is her behavior.

        Alas, she is not a public figure, and those libel laws do apply.

    • Libby says:

      “Libby you don’t know that it had “nothing to do with Hillary” and now that Ashe has turned up dead we’ll never know what he knew.”

      Yes you will, if you go look at the complaint against the Ng guy, which has nothing to do with the Clinton campaign incident, 16 years ago. So, Ashe was not going to testify about Ng exploits of years last. He was going to testify about Ng doings, recently. There is no Clinton anywhere in this, but that won’t stop you, will it?

      It’s very difficult to respect the positions of peoplewho have so little disregard for facts.

  6. dewsterMcGuggystein says:

    Really? 1st paragraph…. Attack than Slurp to up old useless political Attacks?

    Well I guess you guys have more time on your hands than I do…

    Never Mind the Foreign Money buying the election…. just Keep defending what ever you think you are defending///Yawn

    • Pie Guevara says:

      Sheesh, just when I thought when Dewey could not possibly be ever more stupid and inane, he outdoes himself … again. I am beginning to think Dewey is a stooge created by half-baked conservative wannbe manipulators playing a rotten game.

      The same thought has crossed my mind about Libby, Chris, and Pete.

  7. Tina says:

    Kindly buzz off.

    Justice.gov

    Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-In-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Thomas E. Bishop, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI”), announced today that former United Nations (“UN”) Ambassador for Antigua and Barbuda (“Antigua”) and President of the UN General Assembly (“UNGA”) JOHN W. ASHE, Deputy UN Ambassador for the Dominican Republic FRANCIS LORENZO, NG LAP SENG, a/k/a “David NG” (“NG”), JEFF C. YIN, a/k/a “Yin Chuan,” SHIWEI YAN, a/k/a “Sheri YAN,” and HEIDI HONG PIAO, a/k/a “Heidi Park,” were charged in connection with a multi-year scheme to pay more than $1.3 million in bribes to ASHE in exchange for official actions in his capacity as UNGA President and Antiguan government official in support of Chinese business interests. LORENZO, NG, YIN, YAN, and PIAO are charged with multiple bribery-related counts. ASHE is charged with tax fraud for failure to report or pay income taxes on the over $1 million he received in bribes in 2013 and 2014. YAN and PIAO are also charged with laundering bribery money from China. ASHE was arrested in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and LORENZO, YAN, and PIAO were arrested in New York, New York, this morning, and are scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge James C. Francis IV in Manhattan federal court later today. NG and YIN were previously arrested on September 19, 2015, based on a separate complaint alleging that NG and YIN agreed to make false statements to Customs and Border Protection officers about the true purpose of approximately $4.5 million in cash that NG and YIN had brought into the U.S. from China since 2013.

    U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said: “If proven, today’s charges will confirm that the cancer of corruption that plagues too many local and state governments infects the United Nations as well. As alleged, for Rolexes, bespoke suits, and a private basketball court, John Ashe, the 68th President of the UN General Assembly, sold himself and the global institution he led. United in greed, the defendants allegedly formed a corrupt alliance of business and government, converting the UN into a platform for profit. We will continue to do everything we can to root out public corruption – whether we find it in a city council, in Albany, or as here, in the United Nations.”

    FBI Assistant Director-In-Charge Diego Rodriguez said: “The charges announced today are sending a message to those who come to the United States from other countries with corruption plans or bags full of cash – no one is above or beyond the law. Investigating public corruption remains a top priority for the FBI.”

    IB Times:

    Cisco Systems had a public relations problem: Having invested $16 billion in the Chinese market, the technology giant was suddenly facing congressional scrutiny over its alleged complicity in building the so-called Great Firewall that helps China’s authoritarian regime censor information and surveil its citizens.

    The San Jose, California, company endured a high-profile Senate hearing about its Chinese operations in 2008 and reaffirmed its “continued commitment to China.” But the issue wouldn’t die. A group of investors stormed the company’s annual meeting in November 2009, pressing a shareholder resolution that would force the company to prevent the Chinese government from using Cisco technology to engage in what critics said was widespread human-rights abuse.

    That’s when then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tossed the company a lifeline. Weeks after Cisco executives opposed the initiative and it was then voted down by shareholders, Cisco was honored as a finalist for the State Department’s award for “outstanding corporate citizenship, innovation and democratic principles.” The next year, the company won the award. While the honors were for the company’s work in the Middle East, they gave Cisco a well-timed opportunity to change the subject and present itself as a champion of human rights.

    What Clinton did not say at the State Department award ceremonies was that Cisco had been pumping money into her family’s foundation. Though the foundation will not release an exact timeline of the contributions, records reviewed by International Business Times show that Cisco had by December 2008 donated from $500,000 to $1 million to the foundation. The company had hired lobbying firms run by former Clinton aides. After the money flowed into the foundation, Clinton’s State Department not only lauded Cisco’s human rights record, it also delivered millions of dollars worth of new government contracts to the company.

    Time:

    Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe invited the Chinese businessman whose donations to him have been named as a focus of Justice Department investigators to a 2013 fundraiser at Hillary Clinton’s personal Washington, D.C., residence.

    Wang Wenliang, a Chinese national with U.S. permanent residency, briefly shook Clinton’s hand at the Sept. 30 event, a representative for Wang told TIME. An American company controlled by Wang made a $60,000 contribution to McAuliffe’s campaign three weeks before the fundraiser. Less than a month later, a separate Wang company pledged $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation, the first of several donations that eventually totaled $2 million.

    Breitbart-Guccifer :

    A hacked 42-page Democrat National Committee memo released on Monday reveals the dizzying array of Clinton Foundation scandal facts the DNC considers “vulnerabilities” for presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

    The secret document, titled “Clinton Foundation Vulnerabilities Master Doc FINAL,” is one of several newly released internal memos obtained by the hacker known as “Guccifer 2.0.” Totaling over 22,000 words in length, the DNC vulnerabilities dossier paints a portrait of a political party besieged by media coverage of foreign Clinton Foundation donations spawned by the investigative New York Times bestselling book, Clinton Cash.

    The document chronicles hundreds of news reports of Clinton Foundation malfeasance featured under devastating headings created by DNC staffers themselves. Track-change comments featured inside the document contain the names “Lauren Smith” and “Jeremy Brinster,” both of whom are listed as former or current DNC research staffers. The DNC’s own descriptive headings, which are backed up by mainstream media reports, demonstrate how politically toxic the DNC considers the Clinton Foundation’s acceptance of foreign donations during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Sec. of State.

    The Atlantic, ”
    Hillary Clinton Makes It Hard to Follow the Money

    Her family’s foundation collects millions from foreign donors. As secretary of state, she benefited from pricey intelligence reports, but it’s unknown who footed the bill. To whom is she beholden?”

    Dhaka Tribune:

    US Democratic presidential race front-runner Hillary Clinton recently blasted the hidden financial dealings exposed in the Panama Papers, but a recent revealtion depicts 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 Clinton’s first campaign for the US Senate; Frank Giustra, a Canadian mining magnate who has traveled the globe with Bill Clinton; the Chagoury family, which pledged $1bn 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.

    However, the Clintons themselves do not appear to be in Mossack Fonseca’s database, nor does it appear that their daughter, Chelsea, or her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, who co-founded a hedge fund, are listed, McClatchy, the California-based newspaper that broke the story, reports. The ties are both recent and decades old, not surprising for the Democratic presidential front-runner and her husband, who have been in public life since the 1970s.

    Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon declined to answer specific questions about her connections but referred to Clinton’s earlier comments that criticised the behaviour last week. Bill Clinton’s office and the Clinton Foundation declined to comment on the matter.

    The appearance of several shady businessmen with Clinton connections comes as Clinton’s formidable opponent in the White House race Bernie Sanders has criticised Hillary Clinton for pushing for the passage of the Panama Free Trade Agreement as secretary of state.

    The Vermont senator, who opposed the trade pact, has said that the agreement made it easier for corporations to utilise tax shelters set up in Panama. The 74-year-old democratic socialist has also asserted that Clinton opposed the trade agreement when she was in the Senate but flip-flopped after taking over the State Department.

    The ties have also shed lights on the shady relationships the Clintons have developed over the years.

    One such link stems all the way back to the Clintons’ Arkansas days. As governor, Bill Clinton met twice with Jean-Raymond Boulle, a diamond miner born in Mauritius. After the meetings Clinton granted Boulle mining rights in a state park near Hope, Clinton’s hometown.

    According to McClatchy, Boulle was listed as director of two firms listed in the Panama Papers: Auk Limited, which was listed in the British Virgin Islands, and Gridco Limited, which was registered to the Bahamas.

    According to Peter Schweizer, the author of last year’s “Clinton Cash,” Boulle was invited to Bill Clinton’s 1993 inauguration. At a party after the inauguration, then-First Lady Hillary Clinton donned a 3.5-carat diamond culled from one of Boulle’s mines, according to Schweizer.

    Another mining company appears in the Panama Papers.

    Giustra’s UrAsia Energy was registered in the British Virgin Island in May 2005, according to McClatchy. That September, Bill Clinton flew with Giustra on his private jet to Kazakhstan, where the Canadian hoped to secure a $500m deal for uranium mining rights in the Central Asian nation. Clinton and Giustra met with Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev. Before leaving the country, Clinton publicly praised Nazarbayev, who was up for re-election.

    The mining deal was awarded to UrAsia. Months later, Giustra made a $30m contribution to the Clinton Foundation. The pair later formed the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership.

    A Russian businessman who was reportedly involved in setting up Clinton’s trip with Giustra is also linked to companies named in the Mossack Fonseca records.

    Sergei Kurzin is tied to several oil companies listed in the papers, according to McClatchy. The mysterious financier — who reportedly pledged $1m to the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative and gave at least $50,000 directly to the Clinton Foundation — has several connections to players in the Clinton world. Besides dealings with Giustra, he also helped Marc Rich develop business relationships in Russia.

    On his last day in the White House, Bill Clinton pardoned Rich, who had been indicted by the US government in the 1980s for tax evasion. The controversial move came after Rich’s ex-wife, Denise, contributed $1m to the Democratic party, $100,000 to Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign, and $450,000 to Clinton’s library.

    Rich’s Industrial Petrolium Limited appears in the Panama Papers. The company was registered in the Bahamas in 1992.

    Ng Lap Seng also used Mossack Fonseca’s services. According to McClatchy, he’s listed as a shareholder of two companies registered in the British Virgin Islands.

    Ng is the Chinese billionaire who in 1996 was accused of funneling $1.1m to the Democratic National Committee through a restaurant owner in Little Rock. The restaurant owner pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations. Ng, who visited the White House nearly a dozen times in the mid-1990s, faced no charges. He was charged last year with bribing a UN official.

    Connecting the dots…that’s what this story is about, an attempt to connect the dots. She’s running for president, nothing is off the table in terms of her fitness…including what John Ashe might have revealed, had he lived, in a plea deal or at trail.

    • Tina says:

      CHRIS YOU HAVE MADE ACCUSATIONS OF RACISM, BIGOTRY, AND HOMOPHOBIA AGAINST PEOPLE ON THESE PAGES WITH NOT A SHRED OF SOLID EVIDENCE.

      IT IS NOT YOUR JOB TO PLAY EDITOR HERE.

      KINDLY STOP!

    • Libby says:

      Seriously, Tina, none of this makes a case against Hillary. It does, however make a ferocious case for publicly financed Prezzy campaigns.

  8. J. Soden says:

    Boy, ya really gotta watch out for those exercise equipment attacks. First it’s Dirtier Harry Reid, and now Mr. Ashe . . . . .
    Shades of Vince Foster and Ron Brown!!!!!!

  9. Dewster says:

    Look yes the Clinton’s are corrupt. So is Trump.

    What is worse yet is the fact people are not waking up. This is much how they all roll. This has been gong on so long that it is Business as Usual for DC Elite and the Donors.

    This is the kind of stuff I have been talking about. The USA is for sale. No Law gets passed unless someone is going to profit off it. Foreign Donors buy parts of our candidates. The superpacs are the hidden way but now they are all so Blatant about it like it is normal?

    Wake Up Only the rise of the People with their pitchforks and torches can change this…

    Stop blaming one side they both do it!

    and you have the battle of the oligarch’s running for the White House? They are in it for themselves not Us or America.

    #NeverHillaryNeverTrump I will make that stand and work to fix things by the 2020 Election

  10. Tina says:

    Dewey we cannot investigate or prosecute political parties. Nor can we prosecute a group, “the big corporations.” In America individuals are held responsible through the courts. When individuals are protected from scrutiny by media and fawning citizens the system breaks down. When corrupt politicians are allowed to “try” individuals in Kangaroo courts (Clarence Thomas) with the willing corrupt partisan press, the system breaks down.

    Your argument that Trump is just another corrupt politician and part of “business as usual” in Washington doesn’t hold water. He lives in New York, a “town” of corrupted bureaucrats and mob connected unions in the building trade that shut out competition from independents, protect their buddies in related fields of work, and keep prices sky high. It’s said you can’t get anything done in NY without playing the game…as a builder, Trump is well aware of how these corrupt bodies work. His international dealings, and his inclusion in the world of the famous with its glitz and paparazzi give him insight into the machinery of these things on a global scale as well. Unless you have evidence to demonstrate criminal activity please refrain from lumping him in with the truly bad actors in DC that we do have evidence against. He has not been convicted or tried for any crime as far as I know. Civil cases are not the same thing. Even there, nothing of substance has been brought against him that’s gone unresolved as far as I know. Trump works within the system, including the courts.

    Campaign contributions alone do not mean corruption. Generally speaking anyone who contributes to a campaign is looking out for his own interests. Ordinary citizens pick candidates based on issues like healthcare, taxes, and the environment…and they expect action for their contributions! There is only verifiable criminality and corruption when a direct line can be drawn between a sizable contribution and specific legislation. That seems to be the case with Hillary Clinton and foreign donors with the added improper wrinkle of her foundation and her time at State. She has attempted to avoid transparency with that private server, she later lied about it several times…there is hard evidence that she is corrupt.

    The most direct way to reduce pay to play corruption is downsizing. Our government is too big and costly with to much power to pick winners and losers and way too much power to destroy businesses and lives. The current governments wanton destruction of the coal industry, aside from the environmental issue, should make every American gravely concerned. If the government can destroy or takeover one business it can do the same with any business thus effecting thousands of lives. This is fascism. It is ugly and it is absolutely against everything we Americans once stood for in solid unity.

    The Republicans in Congress have announced a tax plan with reforms in the tax code to make it simpler, to eliminate loop holes, and to allow the average American family to report their taxes on a postcard. It also structures business taxes to provide incentives for businesses to locate and pay taxes in America rather than spending money to avoid oppressive taxes by moving elsewhere. This is a move in the direction of less bloated and less powerful government. If you really do care about eliminating corruption you need to get on board.

    Flailing about and waving red flags is fine as far as it goes, people do need to wake up. But if we are not awakened with clarity of purpose and well defined goals we will be left to enraged anarchy without direction…chaos. This is where ideology emerges as an important factor. Chaos would suit the radicals of the left just fine. They operate on agitation; they want the populous enraged and misdirected to a “cause” but lacking in grounding that would preserve freedom and rights. They make “others” in the population the enemy to give agitators a place to focus their attention…a distraction that serves a dual purpose: A) Corrupt elites are free to “transform” America without scrutiny, and B) Conditions are created to create permanent single party rule. Those who agitate on the left are dupes, unconscious participants in a corrupt scheme to transform America away from a representative republic as founded and toward a Marx based one party state. “The Soviet government argued that multiple parties represented the class struggle, which was absent in Soviet society, and so the Soviet Union only had one party: the Communist Party.” Fascism is simply another step in the transformation.

    Hillary Clinton is part of the elites that think of themselves as worthy to lead the world. If she is elected president we will move swiftly to become just another cog in the wheel that international elites believe they should control. There’s no evidence to suggest Trump is part of this elitist ideological cabal. He is the only viable choice we have that offers an intention to preserve our free nation and move in the direction of restoring limited government (A daunting task).

    Today more than any others it should be made clear that the Democrat Party is not a party that celebrates individual rights and freedom. It is a body whose leaders push an agenda that is antithetical to individual freedom and rights and that works to undermine political competition and individual participation.

    Our choices for president in this election are between a demonstrably corrupt woman of international reach and a man who has yet to be tested in the world of politics. Trump is the only candidate that gives us a prayer of beginning to reverse the damage already done to this great nation.

    It isn’t about “blame” Dewey. And it isn’t just about corruption at the highest levels. It is about deep ideological differences. If you don’t put those differences in the picture you can’t see why it’s so important to expose individual corruption and to root it out.

  11. Peggy says:

    Great job pulling together all of this documentation connecting the dots to the Clinton’s corruption. You guys nailed it. I kept reading an article here and another there, but there were so many it was hard to keep them all straight along with those involved. Many of the names kept coming up again and again. It’s very confusing as I’m sure it is designed to be. Plus, information once disclosed never has an ending.

    Been absent the past three weeks because of a massive muscle spasm covering the bottom right side of my back, which curved my backbone enough to bulge two disk. Can’t walk, sit, or lie down. Thank God for pain pills, a chiropractor and PT.

    I do have two items to add to her long list of corruption that will hopefully aid in keeping her out of the WH and in prison where she belongs.

    Sen. D’Amato Drops Bomb: Hillary Allowed Russia to Take Ownership of US Uranium to Sell to Iran (Video):

    “Former Senator Al D’Amato (R-NY) dropped a bomb on Sunday Morning Futures this AM. D’Amato told Maria Bartiromo that Hillary allowed Russia to take ownership of US uranium so they could sell it to Iran.

    Hillary made it possible for the Russians to take control of one of our huge uranium producers and allow them to own the company, export the uranium and who do they sell the uranium to? Iran! Now if people knew that and that the foundation as a result of that got $135 million. I think people would start saying, “What?”
    http://www.usapoliticstoday.com/sen-damato-drops-bomb-hillary-allowed-russia-take-ownership-us-uranium-sell-iran-video/

    In ‘Crisis of Character’ by former Secret Service agent Gary Byrne the author describes an incident identical to Bill Clinton’s “chance” meeting with Loretta Lynch on the Phoenix runway and an agent who had testified during the Monica Lewinsky investigation.

    Read this excerpt from Byrne’s blockbuster book:

    “Not long after my video deposition, I was talking to a Secret Service colleague who worked the West Wing Lobby. He had just resumed his shift after returning from his own testimony. The president had just visited him. That was extremely suspicious—my associate was spooked.

    ‘He just came out and came straight up to me like—like he was looking for me. Yeah, and he asked how I was by name. We chatted—like small talk—like normal. And then he asked how my wife and kids were. . . . We’ve never actually talked before.’

    Nothing about that was normal. It was obviously a subtle form of intimidation. The president was sending a message that he knew of the officer’s recent testimony—and perhaps was sending an even more sinister message. I certainly was glad to be at JJRTC, away from them. It was all so wild, so bizarre. Prior to that, the president didn’t seem to know my fellow officer by name. Someone—most likely the president’s attorneys—advised him to make small talk immediately after the officer testified. The president’s little ‘hint’ spooked both of us. It confirmed to me what I suspected: That was indeed how they operated.

    It was reminiscent of the stories we had heard of some of the women who alleged that the president, while governor, had either raped or sexually assaulted them. In one of the stories Mrs. Clinton had homed in on the alleged victim, despite having never met her beforehand, just as the president zeroed in on the West Wing Lobby officer.”
    http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/secret-service-agent-claims-bills-meeting-with-loretta-was-a-soft-threat-typical-clinton-move/

    Also, whatever happened to all of those incorrect Clinton Foundation donation entries the IRS said they had to correct and refile? I believe the last I read was the Foundation wasn’t going to make them.

    Clinton Foundation To Amend, Re-file 990s:
    “The Clinton Foundation expects to re-file tax forms for the years 2010 through 2012 because of possible errors in reporting contributions from foreign governments. The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) also is expected to re-file its Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 990 for 2012 and 2013.

    The Foundation reported receiving no funding from foreign and U.S. governments for three consecutive years starting in 2010, after millions in contributions reported in previous years, according to reports by the Reuters new agency. The foundation also might audit returns going back 15 years.

    In a statement on its website, the Clinton Foundation said total revenue was “reflected accurately on each year’s tax form, and there was no under-reporting or over-reporting. We are in the midst of conducting a voluntary external review process and will determine whether to re-file after that process is completed.”

    “As far as we know, the only error on our tax forms was that government grants were mistakenly combined with all other contributions for three years. These grants were properly listed and broken out on audited financial statements and donors also were included on the annual donor listing. All total revenue and expenditures on these forms were accurate but as we are committed to transparency and accountability and as such, we expect to re-file.”

    Reuters news agency reported that the charity was under-reporting or over-reporting donations from foreign governments and in other cases omitting to break out government donations entirely when reporting revenue.
    http://www.thenonprofittimes.com/news-articles/clinton-foundation-to-amend-re-file-990s/

    • Tina says:

      Oh Peggy so sorry to hear of your neck troubles. I know how painful that can be, not to mention disabling! Hope you are on your way to mending completely.

      I’ve had similar problems in my back. There are over the counter creams (and patches) with lidocaine now; I intend to use the cream whenever I start to feel those twinges.

      Most of what you posted has been covered either here or on other threads but it doesn’t hurt to repeat them! Glad to see you back!

  12. Tina says:

    Chris: “No, I have always supported those accusations with evidence. For example, you have suggested that we should ban all members of a specific religion from entering the US. That is bigotry. ”

    You are such a PC bully!

    It would be bigotry if the suggestion of a temporary ban came up based in attitudes against all people of the religion. It did not. It sprung from factual knowledge that Islamic terrorists are embedding in the hordes of refugees fleeing Syria and the then recent Islamic terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. It is based in security not religion; the radical warring political Islam…not the religion.

    Your insistence in pushing this false claim of bigotry shows you are an ignorant, PC, partisan more interested in labeling and targeting your political “enemy” than in whether or not the American people, INCLUDING AMERICAN MUSLIMS, are kept safe.

    It may have been inaccurate to claim that Ashe’s testimony had anything to do with the current case against Hillary. It is not outside the realm of possibility that his testimony could reveal connections to Hillary given her criminal troubles, her past involvement with her husband to Ng, their many connections discovered in the Panama papers, and the connection of the their foundation and the “global Initiative” to the UN. It is entirely within the realm of possibilities that something Ashe had to say would further indict or at least besmearch the reputations of Hillary and Bill.

    • Libby says:

      “A ban on Muslim immigration will NOT keep Americans safe, ….

      Amen.

      They just gotta suck it up. I got so infuriated with “Hear and Now” going on and on the other day about airport security after the Attaturk bombing. There is no such thing as as airport security that will prevent three guys from getting out of a cab and opening fire. Security can deal with it once it starts, but there is no preventing it … with increased security.

      Counter-terrorism is a wide-ranging field of endeavor, however, and one very important component is NOT to be seen to publicly violate the founding principles. If the enemy can provide examples, instances, where we demonstrate that the principles and protections are not extended to Christians, but not to Muslims … they win.

      But Jack and Tina do not get this.

      So how about we take in our fair share of refugees?

  13. Pie Guevara says:

    The bottom line here is that Democrats, progressives, and the left do not really give a crap about rape, injustice, national security, political corruption and such when it effects their political heroes and agenda. Simply witness Chris’ desperation if you need a damn clue.

    John Ashe, Benghazi, Hillary email server, denial of clams of rape against Bill and his rapist enabler Hillary and more are in the same bucket of Rat filth.

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