There has yet to be a pronouncement of date, time, place and manner of death, but that is a family matter.
We lost my brother Tony last night. It’s hard to find words, my mind is flooded with memories of him today. When he walked into a room he’d light it up with laughter. He was kind, generous, & a wonderful husband to Megan & father to Zach, Simon, & Fiona. We’ll miss him very much.— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 8, 2019
Perhaps, she is talking to him as we watch Bill, her husband, share with us of Hillary's ability to communicate with the dead, like Elenore Roosevelt, to figure out what to do with his Haitian gold mines and slave labor operations legacy.
Perhaps, the gold could be found and given back to the children of Haiti because you know the profits were laundered through some child welfare NGOs into children's trusts.
Bush Clinton Haiti Fund
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Haiti: How Bill and Hillary Clinton Wrecked an Entire Country
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“When I first got involved, Tony was taking part in jaunts to China, and they would do presentations. Somebody in China did recruiting and found people who were interested and could qualify,” said former Gov. Kathleen Blanco (D-La.), who until December sat on the board of Rodham’s Gulf Coast Funds Management, a company criticized this week for using political pressure to try to speed up a federal agency’s approval of visas.
Blanco told POLITICO that while Rodham was listed as president and CEO, he appeared to have little day-to-day involvement in the firm. His principal role was recruiting investors for Gulf Coast’s main client, GreenTech Automotive, a start-up automotive company linked to Terry McAuliffe, now Virginia’s governor. Both Gulf Coast and GreenTech are owned by Virginia businessman Xiaolin Charles Wang, who brought on partners with deep Democratic Party political connections as he tried to get the business going.
Blanco said both she and former IRS Commissioner Margaret Richardson left Gulf Coast’s board in December. The ex-governor also said she believed the firm was no longer actively recruiting investors.
“I think the company fulfilled its mission. Our goal was to raise money that was supposed to be used to create jobs in Mississippi and Louisiana. That was our obligation,” Blanco said.
Rodham, who did not respond to messages and emails sent to the firms, has said nothing publicly about an inspector general report issued this week that offers a detailed account of pressure exerted on a Department of Homeland Security official to try to speed up review of visa requests. The report says that both Rodham and McAuliffe contacted U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas for help and that agency employees believed the men were getting preferential treatment because of their political ties.
McAuliffe defended his actions Thursday on a radio talk show, saying the delays were inexplicable and his company needed answers.
Federal authorities have been examining the dealings of Rodham’s investment company for at least two years,beginning their inquiries months before McAuliffe launched a campaign for Virginia governor.
The Securities and Exchange Commission had an “ongoing … investigation” into Gulf Coast in 2013, according to documents released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa.) The records showed that the SEC subpoenaed records from a bank for Gulf Coast. GreenTech confirmed in September 2013 that it, too, received an SEC subpoena and said the firm was cooperating with the inquiry.
Gulf Coast’s only known investment is in GreenTech. Gulf Coast sought money from overseas investors through a federal government program that allowed wealthy foreigners to obtain green cards by investing in American businesses. Rodham’s investment company was part of a federal program that encourages foreign investors to front up $500,000 to fund American businesses, and to pay roughly $55,000 to obtain a U.S. green card.
In an SEC filing last year, GreenTech said it had raised $47 million in private equity investments of at least half a million dollars apiece and was looking to raise a total of $60 million. The filing did not say how much of the money came from foreign investors seeking U.S. residency through the so-called EB-5 visa program.
While Mayorkas said he’d not heard of McAuliffe before their interactions, fraud detection officials at USCIS were well aware of the political ties of Gulf Coast’s president and CEO, Rodham.
“The Principal Administrator is the brother to current secretary of state and former First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton,” an unnamed USCIS official wrote in an internal memo that was released by Grassley and appears to date from after Clinton’s departure from the Cabinet in 2013.
Until recently, the address listed for Gulf Coast Funds on its website was for an eighth-floor suite in a Tyson’s Corner building right next to the Ritz Carlton. The suite — on the same floor as offices for Turkish Airlines and Condur Company LLC — is now completely empty. The building also houses several financial companies like Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Charles Schwab & Co.?
Gulf Coast Funds is now based out of the same, small office suite as its sister company GreenTech Automotive in a neighboring building. The walls of the 11th-floor office are lined with pictures of GreenTech’s vehicles, but a sign in the reception area bearing the company’s name also lists “Gulf Coast Funds” below it. A receptionist in the building’s lobby said she knew that GreenTech’s offices were located on the 11th floor but was unaware that Gulf Coast Funds shared an office with the company.
Employees working in the office Thursday declined to answer a reporter’s questions or to provide their names and affiliations. They also said Wang was not in the office and was unavailable for an interview.
While Gulf Coast has a modest website, it lists only GreenTech as a client. A page on the site listing the firm’s “management team” appears to have been deleted in recent days.
GreenTech completed construction of a factory building in Tunica, Miss. last year. A news release on the firm’s website said production was to begin in November, but the facility is still getting up an running, according to a local official.
“Their employment in Tunica is approximately 80 employees and they are actively seeking more employees in skilled trades. The company continues to build their workforce, install equipment and test vehicles,” Lyn Arnold of the Tunica Chamber of Commerce said in an email Thursday.
Gulf Coast was founded in 2007 by David Voelker, a Republican businessman who donated to candidates of both parties, and George Brower, who hoped to stimulate business investments after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region. Voelker was the key force behind the project, Blanco said, but later sold the firm to Wang, a Virginia businessman.
“When Wang bought it, he thought it was a solid company,” Blanco said. McAuliffe and Rodham came aboard after Wang took over, the former governor said. McAuliffe’s goal was to bring part of GreenTech or another a manufacturing firm to rural Virginia, using the investor-visa financing. No such deal was ever cut.
Blanco said the company became controversial only in 2013, when McAuliffe began running for governor and cut his ties with both Gulf Coast and GreenTech. Suddenly, the political connections that seemed to be an asset for the business venture made it a target. That angered Wang, the former governor said.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers the keynote address at the Dreamforce convention Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, in San Francisco. Clinton said Tuesday the nation needs to close a 'word gap' between low-income children and their more affluent peers. Other topic included her support of 'net neutrality', her new granddaughter Charlotte and the importance of philanthropy. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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“It looked to me like everyone was working and working in a legitimate way,” Blanco said. “When it got politicized, it got fractured. When Terry started running for governor, everything became intensely political, and Charlie became upset with the political piece of it.”
In 2013, GreenTech Automotive filed an $85 million libel lawsuit against a Virginia-based, self-styled watchdog group, the Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity, which investigated the company and raised questions about its political connections and business prospects.
A federal judge in Mississippi dismissed the libel claims against the group and its writer last July. GreenTech’s appeal of that ruling is pending before a federal appeals court. GreenTech also refiled the libel suit in September in a state court in Alexandria, Virginia.
Mayorkas has adamantly denied any wrongdoing and described himself as “impervious” to political influence. However, in a response to Homeland Security investigators he described his dealings with McAuliffe as “difficult and unpleasant.” The former immigration official, who now serves as deputy secretary of homeland security, also said he received “caustic,” “inflammatory” and expletive-laden phone calls from McAuliffe, a charge the now-governor didn’t deny Thursday.
”I was angrier than heck at all these people,” McAuliffe told WRVA radio in Richmond on Thursday, noting that the calls came before he was elected in 2013. “Just as I do as governor. … I pick up the phone and I raise heck. I do what I think is right.”
Blanco said Thursday that she remembered people affiliated with Gulf Coast being mystified at the lack of action by immigration officials, but she didn’t recall what the firm’s management decided to do about it. She said she was disappointed by the flap but sympathetic to McAuliffe’s efforts to try to get federal officials to approve the firm’s applications.
“I don’t like anything I’m involved with to have anything negative said about it, but it was a very legal program,” the former governor added. “What are people supposed to do when they find a level of frustration with the bureaucracy?”
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