Thread: Clinton ignores question of how much money Goldman Sachs CEO gave her son-in-law

Clinton ignores question of how much money Goldman Sachs CEO gave her son-in-law’s hedge fund

Published time: 28 May, 2016 02:40

Hillary Clinton refused to disclose how much money Goldman Sachs’ chief executive invested in her son-in-law’s fund, ignoring questions from The Intercept during a photo-op fundraising event in San Francisco.

The publication’s reporter, Lee Fang, visited Clinton’s campaign rally in San Francisco on Thursday, as she kept busy touring California to raise last minute support ahead of the crucial June 7 primary.

As the former secretary of state was doing photo ops, Fang jumped in with his question.

“Do you know how much money [Goldman Sachs chief executive] Lloyd Blankfein invested in your son-in-law’s hedge fund?”

In fact, he peppered her with the question, but Clinton chose not to pay any attention at all, staying focused on picture-taking with her supporters.

Moments later, Clinton’s campaign traveling press secretary Nick Merrill stepped in, but he was unable, or unwilling, to help when asked the same question.

“I don’t know, has it been reported?” Merrill responded, before promising to “email it right now” once Fang handed off his contact information.

Merrill has yet to follow up, according to Fang.

Eaglevale Partners LP, founded by Marc Mezvinsky, husband of Hillary’s daughter Chelsea Clinton, and his two partners, has been supported with investments from several wealthy names of Wall Street, including

Goldman Sachs chief executive Blankfein.

The CEO also allowed the use of his name in the marketing of Mezvinsky’s flagship fund, which is currently managing about $330 million.

However, despite having Blankfein by his side, Mezvinsky and his fund suffered losses linked to an ill-timed bet on Greece’s economic recovery. It was reportedly the Clinton’s son-in-law, who recommended his investors to put their money behind Greek government bonds, betting that the Greek economy would improve.

In February 2015, the Wall Street Journal broke the news that Eaglevale admitted in a letter to its investors that it was “incorrect” on Greece. According to the newspaper, the dedicated Greek fund also included an investment from Marc Lasry, a longtime Clinton donor, who formerly employed Chelsea Clinton at his $13.3 billion New York hedge-fund firm, Avenue Capital Group.

After losing 90 percent of its value, Mezvinsky was forced to close the Greece-focused fund called Eaglevale Hellenic Opportunity earlier this year. According to The New York Times, the fund raised $25 million from investors in order to buy Greek bank stocks and government debt.

Goldman Sachs is known to have cozy financial relations with the Clintons, including the company’s paying $675,000 in personal speaking fees to Hillary Clinton as well as $1,550,000 to Bill Clinton for the same service. Donations between $250,000 and $500,000 were also made to the Clinton Foundation, The Intercept reported.

The publication has been trying to find out whether Hillary Clinton is going to release the transcripts of her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs. Fang is reported to have been the first to pose that question in January, but four months later, the likely Democratic nominee for president only laughed and turned away.

Throughout her campaign, Clinton has been repeatedly called upon to disclose her relationships with Wall Street banks, but she has so far avoided giving direct answers.

Clinton ignores question of how much money Goldman Sachs CEO gave her son-in-law’s hedge fund

Goldman Sachs is known to have cozy financial relations with the Clintons, including the company’s paying $675,000 in personal speaking fees to Hillary Clinton as well as $1,550,000 to Bill Clinton for the same service. Donations between $250,000 and $500,000 were also made to the Clinton Foundation, The Intercept reported.

And Hillary Clinton talks about Trump seeking the opportunity to buy low when real estate values were falling. It seems to me that GS was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the real estate collapse of 2008. I am sure plenty of their profits headed to the Clintons. Again, real easy information for Trump to bring up during any debate and demolish Clinton because she is nothing more than a phony you can see right through.

Leaked “Demand” Memo Proves MASSIVE Hillary Lie About Speaking Engagement Fees

During the Democrat primary, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was regularly attacked by her chief rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, over her paid speeches to Wall Street banks and the fees she earned for them.

Clinton claimed that she only took what companies offered her when it came to compensation for her speeches, but an alleged leaked document showed that Clinton actually had very specific demands regarding her speaking engagements.

The document published by WZ detailed Clinton’s “standard requirements” for speaking, and they were absolutely absurd. She wanted $225,000 as a flat fee, in addition to other amenities.

Just remember, this is the same person who claimed that she knew what it was like to live in poverty.

The document described the type of private jet that Clinton needed for transportation — a “Gulf-stream 450 or larger” — and noted that the host would need to pay the airfare for her staff to show up ahead of time as well.

Apparently there is a lot of prep work needed for someone to stand in front of a group of people and talk.

The host also needed to provide hotel accommodations for Clinton and the plethora of people who travel with her. The memo outlined that Clinton was to have a presidential suite (ironic, considering her current situation), and her staff was to stay in adjoining rooms.

If we didn’t already know the type of person Clinton is, you would almost think this memo were some sort of bad joke. But we’re fully aware that Clinton thinks that she is royalty and demands to be treated like it wherever she goes.

This woman has no business being president. She doesn’t know anything about what it means to be a hard-working American. All she knows how to do is order people around, get Americans killed and give meaningless speeches.

http://conservativetribune.com/massi...bout-speaking/

Lot$$$$$$ of money for Billery