Hillary Criticizes Corporate 'Inversions' BUT Takes $$$$ From Financiers Benefiting from the Deals:

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Hillary ad against corporate inversions brought to you in part by … corporate inversion specialists

And Hillary Clinton wonders why voters question her integrity. Team Hillary released a new 30-second spot aimed at shoring up her progressive credibility by attacking corporate inversions — companies that relocate overseas in response to high American corporate tax rates, sometimes as a result of takeovers. Hillary stands outside Johnson Controls, one firm that conducted a corporate inversion, calling it an “outrage” … but failing to mention that one of her bundlers participated in the process for Johnson Controls:

Clinton has called out specific companies such as Pfizer and Johnson Controls for conducting “corporate inversions” — a merger with a foreign counterpart for tax benefits.

“On the tax code, they call that an inversion; I call it a perversion,” she said Wednesday. “And I’m going to go right after that!”

At the same time, however, Clinton continues to collect money from financiers who are benefiting from some of the deals she decries.

Among those who have raised at least $100,000 for her campaign is Blair Effron, a founding partner of Centerview Partners, a boutique investment firm that played a role in the Pfizer and Johnson Controls inversion negotiations.

A Centerview spokesman declined to comment.

Not only does Hillary have that connection to Johnson Controls, her family foundation does as well, as the Boston Globe noticed last month:


Left unmentioned were Clinton’s family ties to the firm. Since 2009, Johnson Controls has been a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, which is led by Bill Clinton, and the firm has donated as much as $250,000 to the charity in membership dues.

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/02/23/hillary-ad-against-corporate-inversions-brought-to-you-in-part-by-corporate-inversion-specialists/

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