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Clinton FACT Complaint
Clinton FACT Complaint
The law directs OGE to establish a clear set of executive branch standards for
ethical conduct and refer any criminal violation to the Department of Justice.
Subpart B of the law cited by the organization prohibits employees from
soliciting or accepting gifts from prohibited sources or gifts given because of their
official position, according to the OGEs website.
The term prohibited source includes anyone seeking business with or official
action by an employees agency and anyone substantially affected by the
performance of the employees duties, according to OGE.
When ethics officials find evidence that an employee has violated an ethics
criminal statute or regulation, they must refer the that evidence to the appropriate
authority for action, according to the law.
The names of the rich and powerful come up repeatedly in the thousands of
emails released by the State Department under a Freedom of Information Act
request by Judicial Watch.
Clinton granted access to such people as billionaire George Soros,
philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates, designer Diane von Furstenberg and her
husband Barry Diller, retired Citigroup Chairman Sanford Weil, real estate
magnate Walter Shorenstein, former Lorel CEO Bernard Schwartz and media
mogul Haim Saban.
The emails show Clinton met twice as Secretary of State with billionaire donor
George Soros, even going as far as to appoint his personal candidate as the U.S.
Governments special envoy to Albania during a period of political unrest. Soros
has given at least $2 million to super PACs supporting Clinton, according to the
Washington Post.
Georg Soros is anxious to see you before he leaves for Europe next Tuesday,
an aide wrote to Clinton. Could I fit him in for tomorrow, the aide asked. Yes,
Clinton replied.
Melanne Verveer, a top Clinton aide who followed her from the White House to
the State Department passed on to the Secretary the views of Victor Pinchuk, a
Ukrainian Oligarch who married the daughter of former Ukrainian Communist
president Leonid Kuchma.
Both Bill and Hillary Pinchuk have personally met Pinchuk, even attending his
2014 annual conference the he hosts at Livadia Palace, the last Russian czars
summer retreat on the Black Sea. He has given at least $13 million to the
Clinton Foundation, according to the New York Times.
Civic reform groups widely criticized Kuchmas presidency as riddled with
corruption and nepotism. The former communist leader was tainted with
allegations by a Ukrainian prosecutor that he was tied to the grisly murder of a
prominent anti-government journalist whose headless and mutilated body was
found in 2000.
FACT charges Clintons contacts with the rich and powerful with were not a single
event, but rather Clinton Foundation and political donors were regularly granted
access to Secretary Clinton or one of her aides to discuss issues before the
State Department.
The ethics laws require that all citizens be treated equally and fairly by
government officials and that citizens are confident in the impartiality and
integrity of the government, FACT states in their letter to OGE.
The donors were able to meet with high-ranking State Department officials,
voice their opinions, and advocate for certain government opinions, the group
asserts.
Even the mainstream media has reported on Clintons mixing of State
Department business with political donors.
Because she and her family have raised so much money over the years from
wealthy individuals and major corporations, reported Washington Post reporter
Tom Hamburger about Secretary Clinton in October, 5 of last year, her public
business as secretary inevitably brought her in contact with private interests that
helped boost her familys philanthropy and income.