Friday, March 7, 2008

What Are They Hiding Anyway?

Why won't the Cheneys–er–the Clintons release those tax returns?
Bill Clinton profits from company tied to felon, China
The spring before his wife began her White House campaign, former President Bill Clinton earned $700,000 for his foundation by selling stock that he had been given from an Internet search company that was co-founded by a convicted felon and backed by the Chinese government, public records show.

Mr. Clinton had gotten the nonpublicly traded stock from Accoona Corp. back in 2004 as a gift for giving a speech at a company event. He landed the windfall by selling the 200,000 shares to an undisclosed buyer in May 2006, commanding $3.50 a share at a time when the company was reporting millions of dollars of losses, according to interviews.
Then there's this:
Bill Clinton's Kazakhstan Money
Today, the New York Times reports that Bill Clinton flew to Kazakhstan in 2005 on a private jet of Candadian financier who wanted to achieve a mining contract for extensive amounts or recently discovered uranium. The two men met with the President of Kazakhstan, who has quashed any political dissent in that country; he is an absolutist. The Canadian achieves the contract. In return, the Canadian makes a $31.3 Million donation to the Bill Clinton charitable foundation. Info just made public in December, 2007. The initial Clinton response is that there is no connection between the trip and the donation.

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