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In the 1980s, Hillary Clinton made a $44,000 profit on a $2,000
investment in a cellular phone franchise deal that involved taking
advantage of the FCC's preference for locals, minorities and women. The
franchise was almost immediately flipped to the cellular giant, McCaw.
She and her husband set up a resort land scam known as Whitewater in
which the unwitting bought third rate property 50 miles from the nearest
grocery store and, thanks to the sleazy financing, about half the
purchasers, many of them seniors, lost their property.
The Clintons' partners in Whitewater were each convicted of multiple
felonies: 18 counts of fraud and conspiracy in the case of Jim McDougal
and four counts of fraud and conspiracy in the case of Susan McDougal.
Hillary Clinton's partner and mentor at the Rose law firm, Webster
Hubbell, pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud and tax evasion charges.
Hubbell admitted he had defrauded former clients and former partners out
of more than $480,000. According to Susan Schmidt of the Washington
Post, part of this fraud was to conceal work that he and Hillary Clinton
had done for the firm: "The 15-count indictment alleges that Hubbell
covered up the Rose Law Firm's involvement in a phony
multimillion-dollar land deal that caused losses big enough to bankrupt
Madison Guaranty S&L, the thrift owned by the late James B. McDougal,
the Clintons' Whitewater business partner. Hillary Clinton's legal work
for Madison in the mid-1980s is referred to throughout the indictment
but she is accused of no wrongdoing. . . She is mentioned some 35 times
throughout the indictment, but only as Rose's '1985-86 billing partner'
for the Madison account. The document describes some of her work on
Madison's ill-fated Castle Grande project, an 1,100-acre industrial and
trailer park development south of Little Rock."
After quitting the Justice Department and before going to jail, Hubbell
met with Hillary Clinton, and followed up by getting together with major
scandal figures John Huang, James Riady, and Ng Lapseng. Riady and Huang
went to the White House every day from June 21 to June 25, 1994
according to White House records. Hubbell had breakfast and lunch with
Riady on June 23. Four days later -- and one week after Hubbell's
meeting with Hillary -- the Hong Kong Chinese Bank, jointly owed by
Lippo and the Chinese intelligence services, sends $100,000 to Hubbell.
The New York Times reported on March 17, 1992: "Hillary Clinton said
today that she did not earn 'a penny' from state business conducted by
her Little Rock law firm and that she never intervened with state
regulators on behalf of a failed Arkansas savings and loan association.
. . " Records would show that she did, in fact, represent Madison before
the state securities department. After the revelation, she says, "For
goodness sakes, you can't be a lawyer if you don't represent banks."
The Clintons claimed they were passive shareholders in Whitewater. In
1993, however, journalist Jerry Seper found that Hillary Clinton had
written to Jim McDougal enclosing a power of attorney for him to sign
"authorizing me to act on your behalf with respect to matters concerning
Whitewater Development Corporation." Another power of attorney was
enclosed for Susan McDougal. The power of attorney included the right to
endorse, sign and execute "checks, notes, deeds, agreements,
certificates, receipts or any other instruments in writing of all
matters related to Whitewater Development Corporation."
In 1993 Hillary Clinton and David Watkins moved to oust the White House
travel office in favor of World Wide Travel, Clinton's source of $1
million in fly-now-pay-later campaign trips that essentially financed
the last stages of the campaign without the bother of reporting a de
facto contribution. The White House fired seven long-term employees for
alleged mismanagement and kickbacks. The director, Billy Dale, charged
with embezzlement, was acquitted in less than two hours by the jury. An
FBI agent involved in the case, IC Smith, wrote later, "The White House
Travel Office matter sent a clear message to the Congress . . . Lying,
withholding evidence, and considering - even expecting - underlings to
be expendable so the Clintons could avoid accountability for their
actins would become the norm."
HRC'S 1994 health care plan, according to one account, included fines of
up to $5,000 for refusing to join the government-mandated health plan,
$5,000 for failing to pay premiums on time, 15 years to doctors who
received "anything of value" in exchange for helping patients
short-circuit the bureaucracy, $10,000 a day for faulty physician
paperwork, $50,000 for unauthorized patient treatment, and $100,000 a
day for drug companies that messed up federal filings. Her response to
complaints that this could easily bankrupt small businesses: "I can't be
responsible for every undercapitalized small business in America." Her
plan also would have required people to carry national identification
cards that embedded confidential patient information on computer chips.
HRC completely dismissed the idea of single payer health care Tom
Hamburger and Ted Marmor in the Washington Monthly told of a
single-payer proponent being invited to the White House in February
1993. It was, he said, a "pseudo-consultation;" the doctor was quickly
informed that "single payer is not politically feasible." When Dr. David
Himmelstein of the Harvard Medical School pressed Mrs. Clinton on single
payer, she replied, "Tell me something interesting, David.". . .
Reported Thomas Bodenehimer in Nation: "Around Hillary Rodham Clinton's
health reform table sit the managed-competition winners: big business,
hospitals, large (but not small) commercial insurers, the Blues,
budget-worried government leaders and the 'Jackson Hole Group,' the
chief intellectual honchos of the managed competition movement. . .
Adherence to the mantra of managed competition appears to be the price
of a ticket of admission to this gathering."
Two months after commencing the Whitewater scheme, Hillary Clinton
invested $1,000 in cattle futures. Within a few days she had a $5,000
profit. Before bailing out she earns nearly $100,000 on her investment.
Many years later, several economists will calculate that the chances of
earning such returns legally were one in 250 million.
In 1996, the Clintons' pal Johnny Chung agreed to plead guilty to
election law violations and cooperate with a Justice Department
investigation into illegal campaign fund-raising. Reported CNN: "During
one visit, Chung gave first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's then-chief of
staff, Maggie Williams, a $50,000 check for the Democratic National
Committee. The check was delivered inside the White House." Chung
reportedly funneled several hundred thousand dollars from Chinese
military intelligence to Bill Clinton's 1996 campaign. As Chung put it
once, "I see the White House is like a subway -- you have to put in
coins to open the gates."
In 1996, Hillary Clinton's Rose law firm billing records, sought for two
years by congressional investigators and the special prosecutor were
found in the back room of the personal residence at the White House.
Clinton said she had no idea how they got there.
Drug dealer Jorge Cabrera gave enough to the Democrats to have his
picture taken with both Hillary Clinton and Al Gore. In a 1997 story,
Don Van Natta Jr. of the NY Times reported, "Jorge Cabrera, a drug
smuggler who has emerged as one of the most notorious supporters of
President Clinton's re-election campaign, was asked for a campaign
contribution in the unlikely locale of a hotel in Havana by a prominent
Democratic fund-raiser, congressional investigators have learned. . . On
his return to the United States several days after that meeting, in
November 1995, Cabrera wrote a check for $20,000 to the Democratic
National Committee from an account that included the proceeds from
smuggling cocaine from Colombia to the United States, said the
investigators, who spoke on condition of anonymity."
On April 27,1998, deputy independent counsel Hickman Ewing met with his
prosecutors to decide on whether to indict Hillary Clinton. Here's what
happened as reported by Sue Schmidt and Michael Weisskopf in their book,
Truth at Any Cost: "[Ewing] paced the room for more than three hours,
recalling facts from memory in his distinctive Memphis twang. He spoke
passionately, laying out a case that the first lady had obstructed
government investigators and made false statements about her legal work
for McDougal's S&L, particularly the thrift's notorious
multimillion-dollar Castle Grande real estate project. . .The biggest
problem was the death a month earlier of Jim McDougal. . . Without him,
prosecutors would have a hard time describing the S&L dealings they
suspected Hillary Clinton had lied about."
In 2000, Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign returned $22,000 in soft
money to a businesswoman linked to a Democratic campaign contribution
from a drug smuggler in Havana. The donation by Vivian Mannerud Verble,
according to the NY Post, was the largest single contribution received
by Clinton's soft-money committee.
In August 2000 Hillary Clinton held a huge Hollywood fundraiser for her
Senate campaign. It was very successful. The only problem was that, by a
long shot, she didn't report all the money contributed: $800K by the US
government's ultimate count in a settlement and $2 million according to
the key contributor and convicted con Peter Paul. This is, in election
law, the moral equivalent of not reporting a similar amount on your
income tax. It is a form of fraud. Hillary Clinton's defense is that she
didn't know about it.
Hillary Clinton's participation in a Whitewater related land deal became
suspicious enough to trigger an investigation by the Arkansas Supreme
Court. Jerry Seper reported in 2000 the probe centered "on accusations
about Mrs. Clinton's legal representation of a failed Madison Guaranty
Savings and Loan Association real estate venture, which the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp. called a 'sham.'"
While HRC's candidacy is being hailed as a great step forward for women
that was not the case for a number of women who crossed paths with Bill
and Hillary. A number of sources have concluded that HRC ran an
extensive operation to ferret out and suppress any women who might cause
the campaign problems because of her husband's social habits. Detectives
were hired for what Dick Morris called a "a systematic campaign to
intimidate, frighten, threaten, discredit and punish innocent Americans
whose only misdeed is their desire to tell the truth in public."
Among the women who ran into problems was Kathleen Willey who had the
tires on her car mysteriously punctured with dozens of nails and her cat
suddenly disappeared. Subsequently, Willey was out jogging near her home
when a stranger approached and asked if the tires had been fixed and if
the cat had been found. The man then asked Willey, "Don't you get the
message?" and jogged off. Willey also found an animal skull on her porch
the day after she testified in the Paula Jones case.
In 2007, A Pakistani immigrant who hosted fundraisers for Sen. Hillary
Rodham Clinton became a target of the FBI allegations that he funneled
illegal contributions to Clinton's political action committee and to
Sen. Barbara Boxer's 2004 re-election campaign. Authorities say
Northridge, Calif., businessman Abdul Rehman Jinnah, 56, fled the
country shortly after being indicted on charges of engineering more than
$50,000 in illegal donations to the Democratic committees
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Friday, June 01, 2007
A FEW GOOD REASONS TO DUMP HILLARY CLINTON
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