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Anonymous ID: 260e1e Feb. 12, 2019, 12:41 a.m. No.5137868   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7885 >>7904 >>7909 >>7958 >>7979 >>8155 >>8373 >>8584 >>8655

>>5137800 (LB)

Clinton Foundation has operations in Nigeria

 

So naturally there is corruption…

 

And in Nigerias case, it is tied into this guy….

 

He was a billionaire who donated to the Clinton Foundation. Last year, he was denied entry into the U.S.

 

Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury, one of Africa's richest men, has built a reputation as a giant of global philanthropy.

 

His name is on a gallery at the Louvre and a medical school in Lebanon, and he has received awards for his generosity to the Catholic Church and St. Jude's Children's Hospital. He owns a seven-bedroom hilltop mansion in Beverly Hills, and he has a high-level network of friends from Washington to Lebanon to the Vatican, where he serves as an ambassador for the tiny island nation of St. Lucia. His website shows him shaking hands and laughing with Pope Francis.

 

"I never imagined what the future would hold for me," Chagoury once said of his boyhood in Nigeria. "But I knew there was a vision for my life that was greater than I could imagine.… I consider it a duty to give back."

 

Since the 1990s, Chagoury has also cultivated a friendship with the Clinton family — in part by writing large checks, including a contribution of at least $1 million to the Clinton Foundation.

 

By the time Hillary Clinton became secretary of State, the relationship was strong enough for Bill Clinton's closest aide to push for Chagoury to get access to top diplomats, and the agency began exploring a deal, still under consideration, to build a consulate on Chagoury family land in Lagos, Nigeria.

 

But even as those talks were underway, bureaucrats in other arms of the State Department were examining accusations that Chagoury had unsavory affiliations, stemming from his activities and friendships in Lebanon. After a review, Chagoury was refused a visa to enter the U.S. last year.

 

Chagoury is a prominent example of the nexus between Hillary Clinton's State Department and the family's Clinton Foundation, which has come under renewed scrutiny during her presidential run. The organization, founded as a way for the Clintons to tap their vast network for charitable works, has tackled some of the steepest challenges in the developing world, including rebuilding Haiti and fighting AIDS in Africa. It has also come under fire for its willingness to accept money from foreign governments with interest in swaying U.S. policy during Clinton's time as secretary of State, and the controversial histories of some donors.

 

Part of a dictator's inner circle

 

Chagoury was born in 1946 in Lagos to Lebanese parents, and as a child attended school in Lebanon. He sold shoes and cars in Nigeria, according to a biography on his website, before marrying the daughter of a prominent Nigerian businessman.

 

During the rule of Gen. Sani Abacha, who seized power in Nigeria in 1993, Chagoury prospered, receiving development deals and oil franchises.

 

Rest here.. Worth a dig:

 

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-clinton-donor-chagoury-20160828-snap-story.html

Anonymous ID: 260e1e Feb. 12, 2019, 12:44 a.m. No.5137885   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7958 >>7979 >>8155 >>8584 >>8655

>>5137868

More on Chagoury

 

Hillary played favorites with huge number of Clinton Foundation donors

 

The shady Lebanese-Nigerian businessman who got Hillary Clinton’s State Department to arrange a high-level meeting was only one of a dizzying number of big ­donors to the Clinton Foundation to score government favors.

 

The list includes high rollers whose relationships with the Clintons made them even richer; countries with dubious human rights records; and companies looking to grease the skids to get an edge on the competition.

 

Frank Giustra, a billionaire mining magnate from Vancouver, pledged $100 million to the foundation in 2005 — and then reaped a fortune from the relationship.

 

Giustra had dinner in 2010 with Bill and Hillary Clinton right before the Clintons met with the president of Colombia.

 

Shortly afterward, a company Giustra partially owned acquired the lucrative rights to conduct logging operations in an ecologically sensitive area along the ­Colombian coast.

 

Giustra and Bill Clinton also jetted off to Kazakhstan in 2005 to meet with President Nursultan Nazarbayev, and Giustra’s mining company later signed a deal giving him stakes in three state-run uranium mines in the country.

 

The mines were acquired by the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, in a deal that got State Department approval on Hillary’s watch.

 

Gilbert Chagoury, a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire who owns Africa’s largest construction company, donated millions to the foundation and in 2009 pledged $1 billion to the Clinton Global Initiative, an offshoot.

 

That same year, longtime Bill Clinton aide Doug Band sent an email to two top Hillary aides at the State Department, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, asking them to set up a meeting with “a substance person on Lebanon,” according to emails made public Tuesday.

 

It wasn’t long before Chagoury had an appointment with Jeffrey Feltman, the former US ambassador to Lebanon.

 

A rep for Clinton claimed Wednesday that Chagoury simply wanted to talk about the upcoming Lebanese election.

 

But Chagoury was also a key financial backer of pro-Hezbollah politician Michel Aoun, who was running for parliament on the Hezbollah-aligned bloc, according to multiple press accounts.

 

A close friend of Bill Clinton, Chagoury struck a plea deal on money-laundering charges in Switzerland in 2000 and was fined $66 million.

 

On Thursday, Chagoury’s spokesman, Mark Corallo, issued a statement saying he never got to meet with Feltman.

 

“Ambassador Chagoury doesn’t understand all of the media concern over the Clinton Global Initiative which has done so much good philanthropic work around the world – especially in Africa. He is proud to be associated with what he truly believes is a wonderful charitable organization.

 

Rest here: https://nypost.com/2016/08/11/hillary-played-favorites-with-huge-number-of-clinton-foundation-donors/