Clinton was paid speaking fees from "undisclosed third parties." Who was the source?
'The truth is no one will ever be able to reconstruct completely the accounting required'
Bill and Hillary Clinton
A new report from the Free Beacon points out that there were many times when
the “staggering” speaking fees paid to former President Bill Clinton
came from “undisclosed third parties” even though Hillary Clinton listed
“small foreign speaking firms” as the source.
Which was no surprise at all to Jerry Corsi, a WND senior staff writer and author of the new book “Partners in Crime: The Clintons’ Scheme to Monetize the White Hous...
“As
I point out in ‘Partners in Crime,’ the Clintons used ‘front
corporations’ to mask the identity of the person or group actually
putting up the dollars to pay their speaking fees not only to avoid
transparency, but more importantly as a central part of the criminal
scheme behind the Clinton Foundation,” Corsi explained.
“As
‘Partners in Crime’ points out, to perpetrate the criminal fraud at the
heart of the Clinton Foundation, the Clintons needed to make audited
financial statements dense to read, summary in form, and impossible to
trace back to the actual source of funds.”
The Beacon report said one situation developed when Bill Clinton on Oct. 30, 2009, spoke to people packed into the Park Lane Hilton in London.
“While
Clinton’s speech helped raise a substantial sum for the prominent
cricket charity, his staggering $290,000 speaking fee was not covered by
the group, according to organizers. The fee also was not covered by
‘World Management Limited,’ the marketing company Hillary Clinton listed
as the payment source in her federal financial filings,” the report
said.
Instead, it was paid by wealthy British businessman named Robert Whitton.
The
newspaper’s review found Hillary Clinton often listed “small foreign
speaking firms as the sources of her husband’s lecture payments in her
Senate and State Department disclosures, even though the actual
paychecks came from undisclosed third parties.”
And
some, like Whitton, had business pending before UNESCO, which gets a
quarter of its funding from the State Department, which Hillary Clinton
was running.
Corsi explained what was done.
“In
many instances, the speaking fees appear to have been paid directly to
the Clintons, by-passing the Clinton Foundation altogether. There is no
public accounting or regulatory reporting for the shell corporation, WJC
LLC, that Bill Clinton created so payments could be made to him and his
wife directly. The ‘pass-through’ bank account maintained by WJC, LLC
advanced the money-laundering scheme by borrowing a technique from
international drug cartels and trans-national terrorist operations.”
He
continued, “Over and over again, the Clintons devised fraudulent
payment mechanisms, making a sham out of the audited financials the
Clinton Foundation and its subgroups, including the Clinton Global
Initiative, submitted annually to federal and state regulators.
“The
truth is no one will ever be able to reconstruct completely the honest
accounting required to determine who precisely was the source of the
hundreds of millions of dollars the Clintons stole, in their elaborately
designed and still on-going criminal inurement scheme designed to
enrich themselves by violating virtually all laws written at the state
and federal level to keep charities honest,” Corsi said.
The
Beacon said, “Government watchdogs say the practice is troubling from a
transparency perspective, because it obscures the actual source of
Clinton’s hefty payments. While the Free Beacon was able to track down
information on the likely funders of several of these speeches, at least
30 of them remain a mystery.”
The
report said officials for the Hillary Clinton campaign as well as at
Bill Clinton’s office declined to “provide the names of any actual
payment sources.”
Ken
Boehm, of the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog
group, like Corsi, opined that practice “suggests secrecy and
non-transparency.”
He
told the news agency, “While those paying the exorbitant fees have
included special interests with lobbying efforts to influence federal
policy, even more troubling is the fact that the true financial sponsors
are sometimes hidden through cut-out middlemen or anonymous donors. The
tens of millions in speaking fees going directly to the Clintons should
be completely transparent. Anything less suggests unethical conduct.”
The Beacon said its investigation found a lack of transparency was “routine.”
“Hillary
Clinton disclosed that 16 of her husband’s speeches, which brought in
nearly $4 million, were paid for by ‘World Management Limited’ or ‘World
Celebrity Event, Ltd.,’ Mallorca-based speaking bureaus run by a former
celebrity promoter named Onni Nordstrom,” the report said.
But it said Clinton’s staggering speaking fees appear nowhere in World Celebrity Event, Ltd.’s annual financial reports.
Laura J Alcorn
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