Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies (62 page)

32
Adam Hanft, “Why Won’t Hillary Clinton Release Her Tax Returns?”
Huffington Post
, February 13, 2008; available online at:
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[accessed April 15, 2009].

33
Kenneth P. Vogel, “Tax returns show Clintons got rich quick,”
Politico
, April 4, 2008; available online at:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9393.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

34
Ibid.

35
Ian Wilheim, “Clinton Foundation Donors Under Renewed Scrutiny,”
Chronicle of Philanthropy
, November 18, 2008; available online at:
http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/6310/clinton-foundation-donors-under-renewed-scrutiny
[accessed April 15, 2009].

36
“Senate Confirmation Hearing: Hillary Clinton,”
New York Times
, January 13, 2009; available online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/us/politics/13text-clinton.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

37
Mary Bruce, “Questions Linger Over Bill Clinton’s International Work, Lugar Says,”
abcnews.com
, November 30, 2008; available online at:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/story?id=6361640&page=1
[accessed April 15, 2009].

38
Gilbert Chagoury web site; available online at:
http://www.gilbertchagoury.com/background.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

39
Ibid.

40
Ken Silverstein, “Clinton Foundation Donors and Hillary’s Confirmation,”
Harper’s
, January 21, 2009; available online at:
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/01/hbc-90004256
[accessed April 15, 2009].

41
John R. Emshwiller, “Bill Clinton’s Complicated World,”
Wall Street Journal
, December 20, 2008; available online at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122973023139522863.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

42
Ibid.

43
Ibid.

44
Lander Thomas Jr., “Can the New Rich Buy Respect? One Ukrainian Oligarch Is Trying,”
New York Times
, August 7, 2008; available online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/business/worldbusiness/08oligarch.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

45
Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, “Here an F.O.B., There an F.O.B.,”
Newsweek,
February 4, 2008; available online at:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/105650
[accessed April 15, 2009].

46
“3 Guilty in Death Leading to Ukraine’s Orange Revolution,” Associated Press, March 16, 2008; available online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/world/europe/16Ukraine.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

47
Archives of Ukraine, House International Relations Committee Hearing, “Ukraine Elections: Fraud And Abuse Run Rampant,” December 7, 2004; available online at:
http://www.archives.gov.ua/Sections/Ukraineomni/rlugar.htm
[accessed April 15, 2009]

48
Beth Fouhy and Sharon Theimer, “Saudis, Indians among Clinton foundation donors,” Associated Press; available online at:
http://www.politicalbase.com/news/saudis-indians-among-clinton-foundation-donors/154219/
[accessed April 15, 2009].

49
Clinton Foundation web site; available online at:
http://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors/index.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

50
Beth Fouhy and Sharon Theimer, “Saudis, Indians among Clinton foundation donors,” op cit.

51
Richard Stern, Eugene Schiff, and Laura Porras, “Dominican PLWA call for Massive Scaling Up of Treatment Access and End to Illegal but Widespread Discrimination,” Agua Buena, June 2006; available online at:
http://www.aguabuena.org/ingles/articules/dominicana200606.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

52
“Hillary Clinton’s Pay for Play Problem,”
obamanoms.com
, January 8, 2009; available online at:
http://obamanoms.com/?p=54
[accessed April 15, 2009].

53
Richard Lugar, “Senator Richard G. Lugar Opening Statement for Confirmation Hearing of Senator Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State,” U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, January 13, 2009; available online at:
http://foreign.senate.gov/testimony/2009/LugarStatement090113a.pdf
[accessed April 15, 2009].

54
“The Senate’s Advice,”
Washington Post
, January 14, 2009; available online at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/13/AR2009011302567.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

55
“What Hillary won’t promise,”
New York Post
, January 14, 2009; available online at:
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[accessed April 15, 2009].

56
Jo Becker and Don Van Natta Jr., “After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton,”
New York Times
, January 31, 2008; available online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

57
Matthew Mosk and Joe Stephens, “A Complex Knot of Conflicts,”
Washington Post
, November 22, 2008; available online at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/21/AR2008112103538_2.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

58
Michelle Malkin, “Hillary’s pay-for-play troubles, continued,”
michellemalkin.com
, January 13, 2009; available online at:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/13/hillarys-pay-for-play-troubles-continued/
[accessed April 15, 2009].

59
Ibid.

60
Charlie Savage, “A Donor’s Gift Soon Followed Clinton’s Help,”
New York Times,
January 3, 2009; available online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/washington/04clinton.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

61
Ibid.

62
Ken Dilanian, “Timing of gifts stirs ‘earmark’ debate,”
USA Today
, October 17, 2008; available online at:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-10-16-earmarks_N.htm
[accessed April 15, 2009].

63
Ibid.

64
“Hippie Museum Funding Proposed by Hillary Clinton Shot Down in Senate,” Associated Press, October 19, 2007; available online at:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303376,00.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

65
“Democratic donor jailed for impersonating a lawyer,” Associated Press, March 28, 2009; available online at:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20090327/twl-donor-scandal-trial-1be00ca.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

66
“Clash is one for the law books,”
mysanantonio.com
, October 5, 2007; available online at:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/MYSA100607_08A_lawyer_350d4df_html887.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

67
Rudy Trevino, “Police Reports Reveal More About Celis,” kiiitv. com, October 18, 2007; available online at:
http://www.kiiitv.com/news/local/10653896.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

68
Dan Kelley and Denise Malan, “State raids office of Celis,”
Caller-Times
, January 5, 2008; available online at:
http://www.caller.com/news/2008/jan/05/state-raids-office-of-celis/
[accessed April 15, 2009].

69
Ibid.

70
“Mauricio Celis Could Face New Charges,” KRIS-TV, May 20, 2009; available online at:
http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10398589&nav=menu192_2
[accessed May 25, 2009].

71
April Castro, “Texas Donor Under Investigation,”
Washington Post
, November 6, 2007; available online at:
http://www.washington-post.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/06/AR2007110601067_2.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

72
Chuck Neubauer and Robin Fields, “Clinton, Boxer donor to plead guilty,”
Los Angeles Times
, February 21, 2008; available online at:
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/feb/21/nation/na-jinnah21
[accessed April 15, 2009].

73
Christine Field, “Pro-Clinton ‘Dirty Cash’ Man Flees,”
New York Post
, March 4, 2007; available online at:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03042007/news/nationalnews/pro_clinton_dirty_cash_man_flees_nationalnews_christine_field.htm
[accessed April 15, 2009].

74
Peter Nicholas and Tom Hamburger, “Clinton campaign taps into an unlikely treasure-trove,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 19, 2007; available online at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-donors19oct19,0,4231217.story?coll=la-home-center
[accessed April 15, 2009].

75
Charles Hurt, “Hill’s Cash Eyed As Chinese-Laundered,”
New York Post
, October 20, 2007; available online at:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10202007/news/nationalnews/hills_cash_eyed_as_chinese_lau.htm
[accessed April 15, 2009].

76
“Dishwashers for Clinton,”
Washington Post
, October 22, 2007; available online at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/21/AR2007102101069.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

77
Tom Hamburger, Dan Morain and Robin Fields, “Candidates’ reliance on ‘bundlers’ let Hsu thrive,”
Los Angeles Times
, September 14, 2007; available online at:
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/14/nation/na-hsu14
[accessed April 15, 2009].

78
“Dem fundraiser Norman Hsu indicted,”
USA Today
, December 4, 2007; available online at:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2007-12-04-hsu_N.htm
[accessed April 15, 2009].

79
Geoff Earle, “Bill had no clue on Hsu,”
New York Post
, September 3, 2007; available online at:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09032007/news/nationalnews/bill_had_no_clue_on_hsu.htm
[accessed April 15, 2009].

80
James Gordon Meek and Michael Mcauliff, “Team Clinton can’t explain ignoring warnings on Hsu,”
New York Daily News
, September 12, 2007; available online at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2007/09/12/2007-09-12_team_clinton_cant_explain_ignoring_warni.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

81
“U.S. v. Norman Hsu,” FindLaw, November 27, 2007; available online at:
http://news.findlaw.com/usatoday/docs/hsu/ushsu112707ind.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

82
Thomas Zambito, “Jury hears Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s call to swindler Norman Hsu,”
New York Daily News
, May 13, 2009; available online at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/05/13/2009-05-13_jury_hears_hillary_clintons_call_to_swindler.html
[accessed May 25, 2009].

83
Patrick Healy, “Clinton Sees Fear Realized in Trouble With Donor,”
New York Times
, September 12, 2007; available online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/us/politics/12clinton.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

84
Christina Bellatoni, “Dodd slams Clinton,”
Washington Times
, September 6, 2007; available online at:
http://video1.washington-times.com/bellantoni/2007/09/dodd_slams_clinton.html
[accessed April 15, 2009].

EPILOGUE

1
Christopher Keating, “President Obama Will Help Sen. Chris Dodd in 2010 Race,”
Hartford Courant
, April 17, 2009; available online at:
http://blogs.courant.com/capitol_watch/2009/04/president-obama-will-help-sen.html
[accessed: April 30, 2009].