Wednesday, October 12, 2016

High Level Concern About a Clinton Cayman Islands Corporation That Was Exposed

From the WikiLeaks dump. Clinton Campaign chairman John Podesta sent this email to top Hillary Clinton aide.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:56 AM, John Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com> wrote:

  Are you looking at NYPost story on Berckle Clinton Corp being a Cayman > island tax shelter?

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From:cheryl.mills@gmail.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2016-01-20 15:06
Subject: Re: Cayman islands
 
 yes

From The New York Post editorial:

Hillary Clinton last week lunged into her most flagrant fit of hypocrisy yet.

With Bernie Sanders surging, she took new aim at the rich — including their use of tax dodges.

She told MSNBC: “We can go after some of these schemes … the kind of misclassifying of income, trying to make it look like it’s a capital gain, when it’s really ordinary income, going ahead and routing income through the Bahamas or the Cayman Islands or wherever.”


Huh. Bloomberg News reported in 2014 on the Clintons’ use of a prime tax dodge: They put their Chappaqua home into a “residence trust” in 2010. Such trusts can save hundreds of thousands of dollars in estate taxes.

Meanwhile, the Clintons’ family wealth has grown big-time thanks to firms with significant holdings in places like . . . the Caymans.

As The Daily Caller notes, Bill Clinton spent years as a partner in his (now-ex-) buddy Ron Burkle’s investment fund Yucaipa Global — registered in the Cayman Islands. In five years, Bill pocketed at least $10 million.

In 2011, her hubby also earned at least $225,000 in speaking fees from Whisky Productions for an “event that will target the business community in Grand Cayman.”

It’s a family thing: Chelsea Clinton’s hubby, Marc Mezvinsky, is a partner in a hedge fund with multiple holdings incorporated in the Cayman Islands.

And don’t get us started on the whole clan’s use of the Clinton Foundation.

A candidate luxuriating in the poshest glass house should think twice before throwing populist stones.

4 comments:

  1. The problem is making all these charges intelligible to the average person, If nothing sticks it is like all bark and no bite.

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  2. The Clintons are world class hypocrites but it doesn't matter to the legion of low info drone voters and partisan hacks who support Killery. For the typical "progressive" all that matters is the agenda. Advancing the authoritarian/utopian goals of the metastasizing welfare-warfare state is all important and justifies any conceivable amount of hypocrisy, criminality, lies, obfuscations and abject immorality.

    All of this is perpetuated by our repulsively dishonest corporate "news" media which is increasinly owned by a handful of staggeringly wealthy oligarchs like Carlos Slim and Jeff Bezos. The entire system is rigged in favor of the Clintons and their ilk, which is why they routinely get away with every manner of outrage. The Clinton Crime Family really is completely free of all legal liability and their morally obtuse supporters like it that way.

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  3. Sounds to me like the Clintons pay for excellent advice, then as candidates they plant the seed of anti-capitalism. Hypocrisy is not an indictable offense.

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  4. Make no mistake, Hill-Billy are capitalists of the old order: mercantilists by any other name...

    Their "progressive" agenda is, as with all things Clinton, a ruse.

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