usan Rice's Investments Have Ties to Iran. So Do John McCain's.

By David Weigel

http:// www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/11/30/susan_rice_s_investments_have_ties_to_iran_so_do_john_mccain_s.html

Adam Kredo is out with a scoop about Susan Rice: the possible Secretary of State (and current UN Ambassador, which isn't a bad job) has "investments of hundreds of thousands of dollars in several energy companies known for doing business with Iran."

Financial disclosures reveal that Rice has had $50,001-$100,000 in Royal Dutch Shell, a longtime purchaser of Iranian crude oil.

Will this be used by the McCain troika to attack Rice? Possibly not. A source points me over to McCain's financial disclosures, which reveal $1,000 to $15,000 in the JP Morgan International Value Fund. What's the second-biggest holding in that fund? Why, Royal Dutch Shell, of course. McCain has another $1,000 to $15,000 stake in the JPMorgan Emerging Markets Equity Fund, which invests in China's CNOOC, which has contracts to "develop some of Iran’s biggest oil and gas fields."

Why haven't we heard much about these McCain investments? You might have heard of them in 2008, when ABC News revealed that both McCain and Obama had (at that point much larger) investments in funds that invested in Royal Dutch Shell. There's so much money invested in these companies that political foes risk mutually assured destruction if they go after them. Rice has far more money in Royal Dutch Shell than McCain does, but if this becomes a question of who has what politically troubling investments, it gets messy.

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>China's CNOOC

Controversy[edit]

Drug-trafficking ties[edit]

In October 2004, contract-sharing was negotiated in Burma by Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise, China Huanqiu Contracting and Engineering Corporation and CNOOC's Singaporean joint-venture partner, Golden Aaron. Golden Aaron is run by Cecilia Ng, wife of Steven Law; Law is the son of Lo Hsing Han, known as the "godfather of heroin".[18] In 2008, the US Treasury intimated that CNOOC cooperates with a company run by a family known for heroin trafficking.[18]

Human-rights abuses in Burma[edit]

In 2007, CNOOC was involved in a clash with Burmese workers who threw stones at the company offices. Ten workers from Kyaukphyu were detained and questioned by authorities after a dispute with CNOOC over low wages, long hours,[18] reported underpayment and the mistreatment of inhabitants.[19]

In 2008, CNOOC was accused of abuses of human rights in Burma. Arakan Oil Watch stated in a report that the company "left behind such a trail of abuses and environmental contamination on Ramree Island that outraged locals attacked their facilities".[20] CNOOC's actions in Burma has been compared to that of communist officials in rural China, where entrepreneurs desiring development opposed by local residents steamroll their opposition.[20] The Shwe gas project has been linked with land confiscation and human-rights abuses.[21]

Falun Gong persecution[edit]

CNOOC has been accused of participating in the persecution of Falun Gong by collaborating with the Chinese Communist Party to send Falun Gong CNOOC employees to labour camps and mind-control facilities, reducing their pay and preventing them from receiving benefits (or regular wages) unless they renounce their beliefs.[22][23][24]

https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Offshore_Oil_Corporation

http:// amctrump.org/2016/08/12/bill-hillary-mr-chagoury-and-hezbollah/

As was recently reported, a new batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s State Departmenthave been obtained by Judicial Watch. One read, as related by CNN,

In a 2009 email, [Douglas] Band directs Abedin and Mills to put Gilbert Chagoury, a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire and Clinton Foundation donor, in contact with the State Department’s “substance person” on Lebanon.

“We need Gilbert Chagoury to speak to the substance person re Lebanon,” Bandwrote. “As you know, he’s a key guy there and to us and is loved in Lebanon. Very imp.”

“It’s jeff feltman,” Abedin responded, referring to Jeffrey Feltman, who was the US ambassador to Lebanon at the time. “I’m sure he knows him. I’ll talk to jeff.”

Gilbert R. Chagoury, or Ambassador Chagoury as he prefers to be addressed, since he holds what seem to be honorary Ambassadorships (one to the Vatican for St. Lucia and another to UNESCO), is a very wealthy man. His estimated worth is $7.4 billion. A gallery at the Louvre is named for him and his wife. He is well known for making large donations and among those he has donated to, the Clinton Foundation stands out. He has given the Clinton Foundation between $1 million and $5 million. In 2009, he also pledged $1 billion to the Clinton Global Initiative. Robin Urevich revealed quite a bit about Mr. Chagoury in an extensive investigative piece for PBS’s Frontline.

“Every one knows I’m friends with the Clintons,” Chagoury says.

In addition to his a large donations to the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative, he has also donated to Mrs. Clinton’s previous Presidential campaign according to the Wall Street Journal from 2008:

Mr. Chagoury contributed $460,000 to a tax-exempt voter-registration group connected to the Democratic National Committee. A 1997 Washington Post article said that Mr. Chagoury subsequently received an invitation to a White House dinner for Democratic Party supporters. He also met with Clinton administration officials on Nigeria and later talked privately about his efforts to influence U.S. policy toward that country, says a person familiar with the matter.

(…)

Despite any controversies, Mr. Chagoury has steadily built ties to Mr. Clinton. In 2003, he helped organize a Caribbean trip where the former president was paid $100,000 for a speech. Mr. Clinton has made over $40 million giving speeches around the world. According to news reports, Mr. Chagoury attended Mr. Clinton’s 60th birthday bash two years ago in New York. He also joined the former president at the gala wedding celebration in France last year of Mr. Clinton’s top aide, Douglas Band, say people who were there.

Doug Band heads the Clinton Foundation and a global consulting business called Teneo Holdings connected to the Clintons. It was his email requesting a favor for Chagoury from the State Department which surfaced in the latest FOIA disclosure by Judicial Watch. According to an article in Newsmax (2009):

Band carries the title Counselor to President Clinton, but he is much more than an aide to the former president. He is, in fact, Bill Clinton’s chief advisor and right hand.