Bill Clinton was paid $18 million to do nothing because of foundation connections

[jeffblue101]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...96db42-655b-11e6-be4e-23fc4d4d12b4_story.html

The guest list for a private State Department dinner on higher- education policy was taking shape when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered a suggestion.

In addition to recommending invitations for leaders from a community college and a church-funded institution, Clinton wanted a representative from a for-profit college company called Laureate International Universities, which, she explained in an email to her chief of staff that was released last year, was “the fastest growing college network in the world.”

There was another reason Clinton favored setting a seat aside for Laureate at the August 2009 event: The company was started by a businessman, Doug Becker, “who Bill likes a lot,” the secretary wrote, referring to her husband, the former president.

Nine months later, Laureate signed Bill Clinton to a lucrative deal as a consultant and “honorary chancellor,” paying him $17.6 million over five years until the contract ended in 2015 as Hillary Clinton launched her campaign for president.

There is no evidence that Laureate received special favors from the State Department in direct exchange for hiring Bill Clinton, but the Baltimore-based company had much to gain from an association with a globally connected ex-president and, indirectly, the United States’ chief diplomat. Being included at the 2009 dinner, shoulder to shoulder with leaders from internationally renowned universities for a discussion about the role of higher education in global diplomacy, provided an added level of credibility for the business as it pursued an aggressive expansion strategy overseas, occasionally tangling with foreign regulators.


“A lot of these private-education guys, they’re looking to get into events like this one,” said Sam Pitroda, a higher-education expert who was representing a policy commission from India at the State Department dinner. “The discussion itself is irrelevant. . . . It gets you very high-level contacts, and it gets you to the right people.”

While much of the controversy about Hillary Clinton’s State Department tenure has involved donations to her family’s charity, the Clinton Foundation, a close examination of the Laureate deal reveals how Bill Clinton leveraged the couple’s connections during that time to enhance their personal wealth — potentially providing another avenue for supporters to gain access to the family......

The Laureate arrangement illustrates the extent to which the Clintons mixed their charitable work with their private and political lives. Many of those who paid Bill Clinton to consult or speak were also foundation donors and, in some cases, supporters of political campaigns for one or both Clintons.

In summary a for profit college system named Laureate International Universities was given a seat at an official state department dinner because of it's clinton foundation connections and by sheer "coincidence" Bill received a do little job at Laureate for 18 million dollars over 5 years in which he would give the occasional speech and his image and likeness would be used to convince other colleges here and abroad to sell off to them.

I know that Trump was engaged in a scam of his own in Trump university, but in all honestly Trump wishes that he was this slick in his scams. this is unreal,the Clintons are like criminal master minds with their ability to straddle the fence between unethical and illegal perfectly

 

[patrick jane]

Yes, just one of dozens of shady dealings by the crooked Clintons - They should both be in prison. Remember Bill was impeached !!

 

[aCultureWarrior]

I know that Trump was engaged in a scam of his own in Trump university, but in all honestly Trump wishes that he was this slick in his scams. this is unreal,the Clintons are like criminal master minds with their ability to straddle the fence between unethical and illegal perfectly

You're not giving Donald Trump enough credit. If he didn't have the powerful leftwing connections that he does, he'd be in jail.

 

[Grosnick Marowbe]

You're not giving Donald Trump enough credit. If he didn't have the powerful leftwing connections that he does, he'd be in jail.

Seems like you really favor Hillary, huh?

 

[aCultureWarrior]

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