The Wall Street Journal’s eyebrow-raising story of how the presidential candidate and her husband accepted cash from UBS without any regard for the appearance of impropriety that it created.
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. The Wall 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.
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.”
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OK Tin Foil Hatters,
ReplyDeleteWhat do you make of this?
Is it not a conspiracy in the banking world?
The press should stop using the term "pay to play" and instead use "shakedown."
ReplyDeleteYet there's not a tiny bit of suspicion held by the DOJ. The DOJ that is under orders given by BHS.
ReplyDeleteEVERYONE on the planet (except her loving, devoted disciples and the Justice Department) looks at what was going on between her State Department ,the Clinton Foundation, and wealthy politicians, companies, friends, and family and doesn't say "bribery" or "treason", or "she did WHAT!??".
ReplyDeleteShe SOLD her influence and worse, SOLD our resources. She place personal gain over our security and freedom.
She runs for President and tells us NOT to believe all those lies people inserted into her e-mails, the lies about her attempts to hide MILLIONS in "donations", and all the lies about how her friends acquired wealth after "donating" millions, all the lies about only 10% of the foundation's money being used for charity, all the lies about the lies. Even the lies she lied about lying about. All lies!!!
Shooting for the whole ball of wax! Madame President!!
You or I would be selling our house to pay for the attorney who is trying to get us an appeal while we sit in prison.
Ignore subpoena's. Destroy evidence. Endanger lives with utterly careless handling of our nation's secrets. Get criminally investigated by the FBI.
Run for President.
Worse, she's cheered by millions. MILLIONS!
We're doomed.