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The media has been gaslighting the general public for over a year in the Rittenhouse case. This is the breakdown, and the awakening. Brian Stelter. David A. French. CNN.
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>Declan Kelly
5 Points On How Allies Funneled Money To Clinton Foundation
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A hacked memo published Wednesday by WikiLeaks sheds new light on the previously reported connections between the Clinton Foundation and a corporate consulting firm run by two longtime allies of the Clinton family.
Plenty of ink has been spilled on how onetime Clinton aide Douglas Band and Declan Kelly, who worked for Hillary Clinton’s State Department, leveraged their connections to the former first family to attract investors to their firm, Teneo. Teneo clients were invited to attend annual meetings of the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Global Initiative event, and the consulting firm used those meetings as an opportunity to recruit even more new clients.
The documents published by WikiLeaks this week purported to show that these intimate ties between Teneo and the Clinton Foundation made some in Clintonland deeply uneasy, fearing that they could lead to allegations of quid pro quo. One memo released Wednesday describes in detail how Band encouraged Teneo clients to donate to the Clinton Foundation, and pushed those donors to provide consulting contracts and paid speaking engagements for Bill Clinton.
TPM outlines what we know about the ties between Teneo, Bill Clinton’s private finances and the Clinton Foundation.
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Who first reported on Teneo-Clinton Foundation ties and when
Founded in 1997, the Clinton Foundation came under intense scrutiny from news organizations when Hillary Clinton joined the organization following her tenure as secretary of state. As early as 2013, The New York Times and the New Republic published investigations into the overlap between Teneo and the foundation, highlighting the work that Band and Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s closest aide, did for both Teneo and the State Department simultaneously. That year, the Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee began investigating whether the consulting firm had improper access to senior government officials in Clinton’s State Department.
The WikiLeaks documents appear to reinforce many conflicts uncovered in previous coverage of the links between Teneo and the Clinton Foundation. The New York Times reported in August 2013 that some at the foundation were uncomfortable with Band’s dual efforts to attract new donors to Teneo, which was founded in 2009, and help to build up the foundation’s coffers.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/what-we-know-clinton-foundation-teneo-doug-band
>Declan Kelly
How a Clinton insider used his ties to build a consulting giant
Hillary gave a special State Department post to an ex-fundraiser — even as he was laying the groundwork for a global firm with ties to her husband called Teneo.
When Hillary Clinton became secretary of state she personally sought out a man named Declan Kelly to be her economic envoy to Northern Ireland, giving her 41-year-old former fundraiser a special status outside normal diplomatic channels.
“Yeah! Is he now official? Can I call him? Can I ask him to start?” she wrote in an Aug. 28, 2009 email to her chief of staff, Cheryl Mills.
By some measures, Kelly was a bargain for the government. The Ireland-born businessman refused a salary, hired five staffers on his own dime and pushed for U.S. companies to invest in the once-troubled region, a diplomatic priority for Clinton.
But while serving as Clinton’s special envoy, reaching out to global corporations for those investments, he was also working for two of them as a private consultant — earning about $2.4 million from Dow Chemical, a longtime client of his and one of the firms that participated in Clinton’s Ireland initiative.
It was also during this time period that Kelly and Doug Band, a close aide to former President Bill Clinton, were preparing to launch a global consulting business that would soon become a well-known and controversial success story. Their new venture, Teneo Holdings, would go on to employ numerous Hillary Clinton associates, including her closest confidante, Huma Abedin, and, for a time, Bill Clinton as “honorary chairman,” giving clients rare access to the couple and their network of world leaders.
The fact that Kelly and Band were laying the groundwork for their enterprise while Kelly was working for the State Department, reported here for the first time, represents a fresh illustration of the blurring of the lines between Hillary Clinton’s political network and her State Department that critics have long noted. And it shows how one enterprising fundraiser was able to insinuate himself into Clinton's inner circle and then built a 500-person, multinational consulting firm whose value, at least at first, was greatly enhanced by its founders’ closeness to the Clintons.
Manhattan-based Teneo has been a center of palace intrigue for years because of its proximity to the former first family. And in its early days, Teneo directly benefited the couple themselves, though the company emphasizes that it no longer has those ties.
Bill Clinton got involved in Kelly’s work early on. Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime Hillary confidant and adviser to the Clinton Foundation, proposed the idea of a CGI event featuring the former president and Irish ministers in the fall of 2009. According to an Irish Times account of the event, Kelly also pitched Bill on the session in New York.
Hillary loved it: “I think this is a good idea and see no conflict,” she emailed senior aides, adding Band on the list. At least one adviser, Mills, urged caution, writing back, “Let’s discuss — I can see how they might feel differently.” And though it’s not clear who “they” meant, the CGI panel occurred that fall, with Kelly joining President Clinton and the Irish ministers onstage.
Kelly and his staff, meanwhile, created a U.S.-Northern Ireland mentoring program for Irish youth, arranging internships with American companies. Two of the first to sign up were Coca-Cola, Kelly’s longtime client, and UBS, which was then working with Paul Keary’s company and would soon join the Teneo fold.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/teneo-final-221807
Now we know why Hillary is so involved with Northern Ireland
can you darken him up? kek