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Bill Clinton Triggered, Denies Clinton Foundation's Haiti Funds Were Used For Chelsea Wedding
Zero Hedge,
14 January, 2018
Former President Bill Clinton lashed out on Twitter Saturday in response to accusations that daughter Chelsea Clinton used Clinton Foundation funds to pay for her wedding, calling it a "personal insult to me, to Hillary, and to Chelsea and Marc," referring to son-in-law Marc Mezvinsky.
No Clinton Foundation funds—dedicated to Haiti or otherwise—were used to pay for Chelsea’s wedding. It’s not only untrue, it’s a personal insult to me, to Hillary, and to Chelsea and Marc.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-chec…
Bill
was triggered after controversy surrounding the Clinton Foundation's
involvement in Haiti was rehashed following a tweet by Chelsea
Clinton - criticizing President Trump's alleged use of the word
"shithole" in reference to several impoverished countries,
including Haiti - which the Clintons have a long and sordid history
of screwing over.
Mr. President, immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti and the 54 countries in Africa likely helped build your buildings. They’ve certainly helped build our country. cc @POTUS twitter.com/business/statu…
In
response to Chelsea Clinton's tweet that "Immigrants from El
Salvador, Haiti and the 54 countries in Africa likely helped build
your buildings," conservative journalist Paul Joseph Watson
brought up claims revealed in an email published by WikiLeaks that
the Clinton Foundation used money designated for Haiti relief towards
Chelsea Clinton's wedding:
Mr. President, immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti and the 54 countries in Africa likely helped build your buildings. They’ve certainly helped build our country. cc @POTUS twitter.com/business/statu…
Chelsea loves the Haitian people. They paid for her wedding, after all. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
Linked
at the bottom of Bill Clinton's tweet is a Washington Post article,
"fact checking" a 2012 email published by WikiLeaks sent
from long-time Bill Clinton aide, who became notorious in the weeks
before the 2016 presidential election for his extensive insider
revelations on the true nature of the Clinton Foundation, as leaked
by WikiLeaks, Doug Band to John Podesta, in which Band urges Podesta
to speak with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about
"The
investigation into her [Chelsea Clinton] getting paid for
campaigning, using foundation resources for her wedding and life for
a decade, taxes on money from her parents.."
Hilariously,
the WaPo "fact check" Bill Clinton links to relies on the
suggestion that Doug Band lied to John Podesta about Chelsea due to
"bad blood" - after Band had left the Clinton Foundation to
start Teneo Holdings.
Band
appears to be alleging Chelsea Clinton engaged in some inappropriate
use of Clinton Foundation “resources” — whatever that is —
for her 2010 wedding to Marc Mezvinsky. Clearly, there’s some bad
blood between Chelsea Clinton and Band, who had left the foundation
in 2011 to start his own company, Teneo Holdings. -WaPo
WikiLeaks
points out that while Bill Clinton's tweet says no Clinton Foundation
"funds" were used on Chelsea's wedding, Doug Band uses the
word "resources."
Bill Clinton claims that no Clinton Foundation "funds" were used to pay for Chelsea Clinton's wedding. However, the leaked email from then top Bill Clinton aide Doug Band doesn't say "funds" it says "resources": twitter.com/wikileaks/stat… twitter.com/BillClinton/st…
In
addition to Chelsea's wedding, WikiLeaks emails also revealed that
husband Marc Mezvinsky used Clinton Foundation connections to raise
money for his hedge fund.
In
a Jan. 2012 email to Podesta, Mills and current Virginia Gov. Terry
McAuliffe, Band wrote that Mezvinsky invited “several potential
investors” for his hedge fund “and a few current business ones”
to a foundation poker night fundraiser he had been planning.
“I
assume all are contributing to the foundation, which of course isn't
the point,” Band wrote. “The entire plan of his has been to use
this for his business.”
In
the same email, Band — referring to Chelsea Clinton by her initials
— wrote that Mezvinsky “has CVC making some calls for him to get
mtgs with some clinton people.”
And,
in a Nov. 2011 memo released Sunday, Band wrote that major Clinton
Foundation donor Marc Lasry was “assisting Marc Mezvinsky –
Chelsea Clinton Mezvinsky’s husband – in raising money for his
new fund.” -Politico
Who
is Doug Band?
Band,
45, was a longtime personal assistant to Bill Clinton, and considered
the "key architect" of the Clinton post-presidency; helping
to create the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative
(CGI) which allowed the Clintons to accept foreign aid. Band left the
Clinton Foundation in 2011 to form investment banking and advisory
firm, Teno Holdings, along with Hillary Clinton's top fundraiser for
her 2008 campaign, Declan Kelly.
Of
note, Band negotiated with the Obama administration for the
appointment of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State:
Inside
the Obama transition, the intense vetting for the Clintons, dubbed by
some as "the project," is being handled by a small circle
of close advisers to each side. Representing the Clintons are: Cheryl
Mills, a former Clinton administration official and top aide to Sen.
Clinton during her presidential bid; Doug Band, counselor to Mr.
Clinton; and Bruce Lindsey, chief executive of the William J. Clinton
Foundation. Obama transition chief John Podesta, and his deputy, Todd
Stern, are spearheading the discussions for Mr. Obama. -WSJ
Chelsea
vs. Doug
As
we wrote in October, 2016 - with each new WikiLeaks dump, the rabbit
hole in the feud between Chelsea Clinton and Doug Band seemed to grow
a little deeper. In a November 11, 2011 email from Chelsea to John
Podesta, Cheryl Mills and the Clinton Foundation lawyers - Chelsea
clearly lists out her issues with Clinton aides Doug Band, Justin
Cooper and someone referred to only as "Hannah," which is
presumably Hannah Deletto, Director of Membership at the Clinton
Foundation.
Among
other things, the email alleges that Justin Cooper installed spyware
on Bill Clinton's computer in order to monitor his email traffic,
that both Justin Cooper and Hannah Deletto stole "significant
sums of money" from the Clintons and that Doug Band / Teneo
"hustled business at CGI."
Band,
meanwhile, had a bad habit of being brutally honest over email about
"spoiled brat" Chelsea... The following example comes from
January 2012 when Band forwards a complimentary email from Chelsea
(aka "Diane Reynolds") essentially calling her a two-faced
backstabber.
She
sends me one of these types of emails every few days/week
As
they say, the apple doesn't fall far
A
kiss on the cheek while she is sticking a knife in the back, and
front
Of
course, this wasn't the first time Band intimated his true feelings
about Chelsea to Podesta. Just a couple of months earlier, in
November 2011, Band sent the following email after Chelsea expressed
her views that Band's firm, Teneo, created potential conflicts of
interest in going to State Department officials to seek assistance
for clients, including MF Global.
"She
is acting like a spoiled brat kid who has nothing else to do but
create issues to justify what she's doing because she, as she has
said, hasn't found her way and has a lack of focus in her life. I
realize she will be off of this soon but if it doesn't come soon
enough...."
After
that, the situation escalated to the point that Band sent the
following email two days later saying that Chelsea had pushed Clinton
Foundation COO, Laura Graham, to the brink of suicide. Within the
email Band describes an encounter in which he received a "late
night" call from Graham who was:
"...on
staten island in her car parked a few feet from the waters edge with
her foot on the gas pedal and the car in park. She called me to tell
me the stress of all of this office crap with wjc and cvc as well as
that of her family had driven her to the edge and she couldn't take
it anymore."
Chelsea,
meanwhile launched an internal investigation into the Clinton Global
Initiative and Clinton Foundation, according to a January, 2012 email
Doug Band sent to John Podesta:
I
just received a call from a close friend of wjcs who said that cvc
told one of the bush 43 kids that she is conducting an internal
investigation of money within the foundation from cgi to the
foundation
The
bush kid then told someone else who then told an operative within the
republican party
The
Clintons vs. Haiti
Doug
Band and Chelsea Clinton's feud aside, the Clintons have a long and
sordid history with Haiti, including;
Hillary
Clinton's State Department pressured Haiti to suppress their minimum
wage in sweatshops in order to benefit US clothing manufacturers
factory
owners refused to pay 62 cents per hour, or $5 per day, as a measure
unanimously passed by the Haitian Parliament in June 2009 would have
mandated. And they had the vigorous backing of the US Agency for
International Development and the US Embassy when they took that
stand.
To
resolve the impasse between the factory owners and Parliament, the
State Department urged quick intervention by then Haitian President
René Préval.
A
deputy chief of mission, David E. Lindwall, said the $5 per day
minimum “did not take economic reality into account” but was a
populist measure aimed at appealing to “the unemployed and
underpaid masses.”
-The
Nation
Clinton
Foundation donors were were allegedly handed government contracts to
clean up in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake:
Bill
Clinton intervened in the jail sentence of Laura Silsby, a convicted
child trafficker who attempted to smuggle 33 children out of Haiti.
Of
note, Huma Abedin was constantly forwarding Hillary Clinton articles
on Silsby's organization.
Laura Silsby was arrested at the Haitian border attempting to smuggle 33 children out of Haiti without documentation. Her sentence and charges were reduced after an intervention by Bill Clinton.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-2…
Hillary
and Bill Clinton took an extraordinary interest in Silsby’s case
from the moment she was arrested and almost immediately stepped in on
her behalf. The Harvard Human Rights Journal stated that one of Bill
Clinton’s first acts as special envoy for the United Nations in
Haiti “was to put out the fire of a child abduction scandal
involving American citizens.” On February 7th, 2010, The Sunday
Times reported that Bill Clinton had intervened to strike a deal with
the Haitian government, securing the release of all co-conspirators
except for Silsby. Prosecutors ultimately sought a six-month sentence
in Silsby’s case, reducing charges for conspiracy and child
abduction to mere “arranging irregular travel.” A shockingly
light penalty given the circumstances of her arrest, which would
likely not have been possible but for the intervention of the
Clintons in Silsby’s case. -Disobedient Media
And
the attorney who represented Laura Silsby? Convicted human trafficker
Jorge Puello Torres.
SANTO
DOMINGO, March 19 (Reuters) - A Dominican Republic man who acted as
legal adviser to a group of U.S. missionaries held for several weeks
in Haiti on child kidnapping charges has been arrested in Santo
Domingo, local police said on Friday. Jorge Puello Torres, wanted by
El Salvador as a suspect in a human trafficking ring, was detained at
a car wash in the city late on Thursday, a spokesman from the
Dominican Republic's police anti-narcotics unit said. He was arrested
in the Dominican Republic's capital on a warrant issued by Interpol,
the international police organization. (reuters)
Oddly,
a former Haitian government official set to expose the Clinton
Foundation's misdeeds in Haiti shot himself in the head a week before
he was able to testify. Klaus Eberwein, was found dead in a Miami
Dade motel room in what examiners ruled a suicide.
According
to Miami-Dade’s medical examiner records supervisor, the official
cause of death is “gunshot to the head.“ Eberwein’s death has
been registered as “suicide” by the government. But not long
before his death, he acknowledged that his life was in danger because
he was outspoken on the criminal activities of the Clinton
Foundation.
Eberwein
was a fierce critic of the Clinton Foundation’s activities in the
Caribbean island, where he served as director general of the
government’s economic development agency, Fonds d’assistance
économique et social, for three years. “The Clinton Foundation,
they are criminals, they are thieves, they are liars, they are a
disgrace,” Eberwein said at a protest outside the Clinton
Foundation headquarters in Manhattan in 2016. Eberwein was due to
appear before the Haitian Senate Ethics and Anti-Corruption
Commission where he was widely expected to testify that the Clinton
Foundation misappropriated Haiti earthquake donations from
international donors. But this “suicide” gets even more
disturbing…
Eberwein
was only 50-years-old and reportedly told acquaintances he feared for
his life because of his fierce criticism of the Clinton Foundation.
His close friends and business partners were taken aback by the idea
he may have committed suicide. “It’s really shocking,” said
friend Gilbert Bailly. “We grew up together; he was like family.”
You
can watch more on the Clintons and Haiti here:
Perhaps actor James Woods summed up the relationship between the Clintons and Haiti best;
The balls on this guy! You looted Haiti like a peg-legged pirate. You, your crooked wife, and your cheesy slush fund “foundation” worked in concert to turn it into the shithole it has become. #BagmanBill #ClintonFoundation #Haiti twitter.com/billclinton/st…
I bet
the Independent would like to take this back but they can't. From
November, 2016
Chelsea Clinton 'used Clinton Foundation funds to help pay for wedding', hacked Wikileaks emails claim
Emails
also allege Chelsea Clinton used the
non-profit foundation's resources for her 'life for a
decade'
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