Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show.
They also obtained an eyewitness account — backed by documents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill.
My take
Hellooo? We been yelling about this since 2015
- Judicial Watch Sues Treasury for Records on Hillary Clinton-Russian Uranium Scandal
- No Investigation of Clinton Foundation Uranium Deal with Russia (note - story from April of this year)
Shortly after the deal was announced, Hillary was paid $500,000 from a Russian investment bank for a Moscow speech – an obvious conflict of interest for Hillary as secretary of state at the time.
Clinton’s public display of contempt for Putin does not match her track record of how she interacted with the Russian leader in the past as controversy swirled following a uranium deal she approved while at the State Department. The deal was quickly followed by a massive donation to her foundation, proving the “pay for play” policy she herself used to become wealthy.
- 2 CFR 200.112 - Conflict of interest.
- 18 U.S. Code § 208 - Acts affecting a personal financial interest
- Late edit - additional commentary from Ace of Spades
It's worse than that, even -- it appears that Obama and Holder deliberately under-investigated and restricted the charges to as anodyne a list as possible so as not to alert the public (or even Congress) as to the full nature of the corruption.
Nice to be vindicated on a major point. In addition, those of us who have been angered by the Trump administration's refusal to address the corruption of the Clinton Foundation specifically, can look at this as an example in which Trump et al said they were NOT moving forward...obviously, THEY DID!
LOCK HER UP