No, Hillary Hasn’t Been Indicted
August 13, 2016 at 3:29 a.m.
By Gary [email protected]
So this week we find out – big shock – that one of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, was simultaneously taking part in high-level tasks for the Clinton Foundation.
The documents raised new questions about whether the foundation worked to reward its donors with access and influence at the State Department.
Well, duh.
In one email exchange, according to multiple published reports, an executive at the Clinton Foundation in 2009 attempted through Hillary’s State Department to put a billionaire donor in touch with the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon because of the donor’s interests there.
In another email, the foundation was urging Hillary’s aides to help find a job for a foundation associate. The aides assured the foundation that the State Department was working on the request.
Hillary was asked about the relationship between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation in the past, before the emails were revealed.
She, of course, said they were completely separate – not intertwined at all.
Yeah.
Just add that to the long and growing list of Hillary’s prevarications.
And then – and this is the bigger story – the Daily Caller reported Thursday night that:
“Multiple FBI investigations are underway involving potential corruption charges against the Clinton Foundation.”
Reporter Richard Pollock quotes “a former senior law enforcement official” who told him the investigation centers on New York City where the Clinton Foundation has its main offices.
Pollock reports that the law enforcement official he quotes has direct knowledge of the activities,
The report also states the investigation will receive prosecutorial support from various U.S. Attorneys Offices – “a major departure from other centralized FBI investigations.”
From the report:
The New York-based probe is being led by Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Bharara’s prosecutorial aggressiveness has resulted in a large number of convictions of banks, hedge funds and Wall Street insiders.
The official said involvement of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York “would be seen by agents as a positive development as prosecutors there are generally thought to be more aggressive than the career lawyers within the DOJ.”
Bharara’s official biography notes that he “has applied renewed focus on large-scale, sophisticated financial frauds by creating two new units – the Complex Frauds Unit and the complementary Civil Frauds Unit.
“The Civil Frauds Unit has collected close to $500 million in settlements since its inception, including multi-million dollar settlements with Deutsche Bank and CitiMortgage for faulty lending practices and other fraudulent conduct.”
Of course, a spokesman for Bharara declined comment and FBI spokeswoman Samantha Shero said, “We do not have a comment on investigative activity.”
Hmm. But she didn’t say there was no investigation, did she?
And then there was the story Thursday by CNN’s Justice Department reporter Pamela Brown.
She reported that earlier this year, Justice Department officials in three different field offices agreed a public corruption investigation should be launched regarding Clinton Foundation activities.
Brown says the probe resulted from a bank notifying the FBI about something fishy going on with regard to a Clinton Foundation foreign donor.
Brown reported the FBI and Justice Department officials met but there was “disagreement” whether to launch such an investigation. In the end, the investigation was killed.
OK, so read that to mean the Obama Justice Department killed the investigation.
If the investigation would have been launched, Brown reports, it would have looked at conflict of interest between requests by foreign donors and official acts by Hillary as Secretary of State.
But no. Nothing to see here, people, move along now.
I tell ya, looks like our government will do whatever it takes to make sure there is a Hillary coronation next January.
In a twist on the old “devil you know” adage, one of my colleagues actually uttered the sentence, “I’d rather vote for the criminal I know than the ***hole I don’t.”
And the other day someone in the newsroom was bemoaning how “crooked” Hillary is. Someone else pointed out she hadn’t been convicted of anything.
Ah, yes, some of the most ringing endorsements for Hillary I have heard yet.
The tragedy in all this is that if Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio was the Republican nominee, they’d be up by 20 points by now.
So this week we find out – big shock – that one of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, was simultaneously taking part in high-level tasks for the Clinton Foundation.
The documents raised new questions about whether the foundation worked to reward its donors with access and influence at the State Department.
Well, duh.
In one email exchange, according to multiple published reports, an executive at the Clinton Foundation in 2009 attempted through Hillary’s State Department to put a billionaire donor in touch with the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon because of the donor’s interests there.
In another email, the foundation was urging Hillary’s aides to help find a job for a foundation associate. The aides assured the foundation that the State Department was working on the request.
Hillary was asked about the relationship between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation in the past, before the emails were revealed.
She, of course, said they were completely separate – not intertwined at all.
Yeah.
Just add that to the long and growing list of Hillary’s prevarications.
And then – and this is the bigger story – the Daily Caller reported Thursday night that:
“Multiple FBI investigations are underway involving potential corruption charges against the Clinton Foundation.”
Reporter Richard Pollock quotes “a former senior law enforcement official” who told him the investigation centers on New York City where the Clinton Foundation has its main offices.
Pollock reports that the law enforcement official he quotes has direct knowledge of the activities,
The report also states the investigation will receive prosecutorial support from various U.S. Attorneys Offices – “a major departure from other centralized FBI investigations.”
From the report:
The New York-based probe is being led by Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Bharara’s prosecutorial aggressiveness has resulted in a large number of convictions of banks, hedge funds and Wall Street insiders.
The official said involvement of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York “would be seen by agents as a positive development as prosecutors there are generally thought to be more aggressive than the career lawyers within the DOJ.”
Bharara’s official biography notes that he “has applied renewed focus on large-scale, sophisticated financial frauds by creating two new units – the Complex Frauds Unit and the complementary Civil Frauds Unit.
“The Civil Frauds Unit has collected close to $500 million in settlements since its inception, including multi-million dollar settlements with Deutsche Bank and CitiMortgage for faulty lending practices and other fraudulent conduct.”
Of course, a spokesman for Bharara declined comment and FBI spokeswoman Samantha Shero said, “We do not have a comment on investigative activity.”
Hmm. But she didn’t say there was no investigation, did she?
And then there was the story Thursday by CNN’s Justice Department reporter Pamela Brown.
She reported that earlier this year, Justice Department officials in three different field offices agreed a public corruption investigation should be launched regarding Clinton Foundation activities.
Brown says the probe resulted from a bank notifying the FBI about something fishy going on with regard to a Clinton Foundation foreign donor.
Brown reported the FBI and Justice Department officials met but there was “disagreement” whether to launch such an investigation. In the end, the investigation was killed.
OK, so read that to mean the Obama Justice Department killed the investigation.
If the investigation would have been launched, Brown reports, it would have looked at conflict of interest between requests by foreign donors and official acts by Hillary as Secretary of State.
But no. Nothing to see here, people, move along now.
I tell ya, looks like our government will do whatever it takes to make sure there is a Hillary coronation next January.
In a twist on the old “devil you know” adage, one of my colleagues actually uttered the sentence, “I’d rather vote for the criminal I know than the ***hole I don’t.”
And the other day someone in the newsroom was bemoaning how “crooked” Hillary is. Someone else pointed out she hadn’t been convicted of anything.
Ah, yes, some of the most ringing endorsements for Hillary I have heard yet.
The tragedy in all this is that if Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio was the Republican nominee, they’d be up by 20 points by now.
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