Handy Monster Guide to Why The Clintons Are Hiding Their Tax Records from the American People

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Fri Mar-07-08 07:52 PM
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Handy Monster Guide to Why The Clintons Are Hiding Their Tax Records from the American People

Hillary and Bill Clinton have plenty of reasons to hide their 2006 and 2007 tax records.

They know that what we will find out about who they get their money from is indeed the perfect Achilles Heel that will destroy any chance of Hillary Clinton ever getting elected.

Thankfully, it's a near mathematical impossibility that she will be the nominee if she has to play by the rules. Since Hillary has decided to endorse the Republican nominee recently, there should be no reason why this exposure of Clinton corruption should be a problem.

Breaking the law and rules while lying is the only way we will see her as the nominee. Perhaps she already knows that when she has stated this comment about releasing tax records:

"I will release my tax returns," Clinton said during the debate. "I have consistently said I will do that once I become the nominee, or even earlier."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4353926

She either knows she won't be the nominee or she and Bill will just not release their records at all. Again, there is plenty of new reasons why they would want to hide who their donors are and where their money is coming from. Bill Clinton, one of the biggest trouble magnets in American history, has made a lot of money on shady deals, such as this:

Late on Sept. 6, 2005, a private plane carrying the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra touched down in Almaty, a ruggedly picturesque city in southeast Kazakhstan. Several hundred miles to the west a fortune awaited: highly coveted deposits of uranium that could fuel nuclear reactors around the world. And Mr. Giustra was in hot pursuit of an exclusive deal to tap them.

Unlike more established competitors, Mr. Giustra was a newcomer to uranium mining in Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic. But what his fledgling company lacked in experience, it made up for in connections. Accompanying Mr. Giustra on his luxuriously appointed MD-87 jet that day was a former president of the United States, Bill Clinton.

Upon landing on the first stop of a three-country philanthropic tour, the two men were whisked off to share a sumptuous midnight banquet with Kazakhstan�s president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev, whose 19-year stranglehold on the country has all but quashed political dissent.

Mr. Nazarbayev walked away from the table with a propaganda coup, after Mr. Clinton expressed enthusiastic support for the Kazakh leader�s bid to head an international organization that monitors elections and supports democracy. Mr. Clinton�s public declaration undercut both American foreign policy and sharp criticism of Kazakhstan�s poor human rights record by, among others, Mr. Clinton�s wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

Within two days, corporate records show that Mr. Giustra also came up a winner when his company signed preliminary agreements giving it the right to buy into three uranium projects controlled by Kazakhstan�s state-owned uranium agency, Kazatomprom.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html?_r=2&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

For the past four years, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton have jetted around on Vinod Gupta�s corporate jet, to Switzerland, Hawaii, Jamaica, Mexico�US$ 900,000 worth of travel. The former president secured a US$ 3.3 million consulting deal with Gupta�s technology firm. His presidential library got a six-figure gift, too.

Gupta, whose big donations to the Democratic Party earned him a Lincoln Bedroom overnight when Bill Clinton was president, has emerged as a key benefactor of Clinton�s post-presidency�and Hillary Clinton�s presidential candidacy.

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The dispute over Gupta�s bankrolling of the Clintons offers new detail about how successfully Clinton has leveraged the inner circle of donors he cultivated during his tenure in the White House to his personal financial benefit since he left office. In addition, it suggests the degree to which Hillary Clinton�s political career is also benefiting from those connections.

http://www.indianexpress.com/story/31963.html

BONUS! Here is just a taste of some of the photos you might find in Hillary Clinton's photo Scrapbook of Shame:

Jorge Cabrera is currently serving federal time for smuggling at least 3,000 pounds of cocaine into the United States He pleaded guilty to those charges and was sentenced to 19 years in federal prison and fined $1.5 million. He sure looks happy standing next to Hillary Clinton at Christmas time in the White House.

Hillary and Bill at a Democratic fund raiser with Ng Lapseng, a Macau criminal boss, who deals in heroin, murder for hire and gun smuggling and donated thousands of dollars to the Clintons.

Johnny Chung gave thousands of dollars to Mrs. Clinton and later pleaded guilty to bank fraud and tax evasion.

Norman Hsu, here with Hillary Clinton, was accused of bilking investors of $1 million and could have been sentenced to up to three years in prison and ordered to pay restitution.

We could talk about Mark Rich, who Clinton pardoned, but it appears that Bill is feeding him large meals very nicely.

In many ways, this just scratches the surface of the levels of corruption that sticks to the Clintons. In case you're not familiar with how money laundering works and want to follow along with these and other Clinton Family money mysteries, this illustration offers some wonderful guidance: