Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=0

Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal


The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.

But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who would like the next one.

At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the Canadian mining industry, who have been major donors to the charitable endeavors of former President Bill Clinton and his family. Members of that group built, financed and eventually sold off to the Russians a company that would become known as Uranium One.

Frank Giustra, a mining financier, has donated $31.3 million to the foundation run by former President Bill Clinton.

Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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This is just one of the many deals made while Hillary was SOS that resulted in big donations to the Clinton Foundation.

[yourpaljoey]

1. MORE shenanigans that looks bad. Has there ever been such a flawed Democratic candidate?

I cannot name one.

[summerschild]

2. Democrats are kidding themselves

if they think the GOP isn't going to drag out all the stuff on Hillary and the Clinton Foundation as they compete for the presidency.

It exists, and it ain't Benghazi!