Armageddon (12 page)

Hillary's ne'er-do-well brother, Tony Rodham, was implicated in a federal investigation about his efforts to obtain visas for two Chinese nationals linked to a company controlled by the Chinese Army after their applications and appeals were categorically denied by the government. Their Chinese employer, Huawei Technologies, then invested in a company ostensibly headed by Rodham to help them out. Nobody in the Clinton-Rodham family seemed to notice that this might be a big conflict of interest while his sister was Secretary of State. The brouhaha is all about the federal Immigrant Investor Program, also known as EB-5. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services administers this program that offers foreign investors, mainly Chinese, a path to citizenship in return for a $500,000 cash investment that is used to create 10 US jobs.

The investments were supposed to help immigrant investors. But these were no ordinary investors—and no ordinary immigrants. No, Huawei Technologies had been caught pirating American technology and there have been serious national security concerns about their activities. Huawei has repeatedly tried to purchase stakes in American telephone and communications companies, only to be
denied permission by the Foreign Investment Review Board on national security grounds because of suspected links to the Chinese military. We don't trust them. And we shouldn't. Equally disturbing is the company's commercial alliances with enemies of the United States, including projects in Iran, where they developed devices to track dissidents through their phones.

But that didn't stop Tony. If there was money to be made, he was right on it.

According to Bill Gertz of the
Washington Times
, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ordered American aircraft to join British warplanes in a “raid on an Iraqi air defense network that had been targeting US aircraft patrolling the skies over Iraq. Some fifty jets bombed an air defense control center for fiber optic cables that Huawei technicians had installed in violation of UN sanctions.”
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Huawei also assisted the Taliban by installing a phone system in Kabul, Afghanistan. These are the folks that Rodham was promoting. The United States doesn't want them here—and with good reason. They don't belong here. But Tony Rodham took money to be a front man in a company dedicated to helping them get the coveted visas.

Clinton family best friend and current governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, brought Rodham in to a company he had set up. The fact that Rodham's sister was secretary of state was, of course, a big plus. The Huawei Company evidently thought so, because even as brother Tony was trying to get their executives into the country, the company was lobbying the White House and the State Department over a variety of issues. Guess that Rodham name might help? Did it help to have the name Rodham on an application to the government while his sister is secretary of state?

Rodham, of course, had no professional experience in this area and only a year before becoming CEO of the company was a deadbeat dad sued for over $100,000 in back child support. His entire adult life has been spent trying to make money off his family connections—from selling hazelnuts in the nation of Georgia to
selling pardons in the White House. It's highly unlikely that Hillary had no idea what Tony was up to. Make that impossible that she didn't know. And he's still at it.

Following the Haiti earthquake, Bill and Hillary Clinton became the most powerful people in Haiti. Through the State Department, the Bush–Clinton Haiti Fund, and the Clinton Foundation, they controlled the granting of all contracts for rebuilding Haiti.

Bill Clinton ran Haiti after he was appointed as the UN Special Envoy to Haiti. In addition, he and Jean-Max Bellerive, a former prime minister, headed the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) that had to give final approval to every reconstruction project. Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton's Chief of Staff and a longtime Clinton Foundation board member, was the State Department liaison to Haiti and was a member of the IHRC. So anyone who wanted to get anything done in Haiti had to get the OK from the IHRC . . . and, presumably HRC. Let's leave aside for the moment Bill's and Hillary's own greed and malfeasance, which could fill a book, seeing yet another opportunity for trading on their famous names, Tony Rodham and Roger Clinton prowled around for a new project. Not surprisingly, both of them found something in Haiti.

Tony was given a seat on the board of a company that received the first permit to mine for gold in Haiti, again exploiting and making money, this time off Hillary and Bill's role as the savior of Haiti. How did Tony get the gold-mining gig? At a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, he met the chief executive of the Delaware-based VCS Mining Company. Guess the CEO was blown away by Tony's talents . . . or maybe he looked around and saw just how things worked. One thing is certain: Bill Clinton had to know about Tony's mining deal. When the details became public in 2013, the Haiti Senate passed a resolution calling for a moratorium on
all activities connected to gold mining permits, citing the historic “pillaging” of Haiti's natural resources. The IHRC would know all about it—and so would HRC and WJC. They just chose, once again, to look the other way.

According to the
New York Times,
Tony also tried to get approval from the Clinton Foundation Haiti Fund for a $22 million project to rebuild housing in Haiti from which he expected to make $1 million profit. Tony admitted that “a guy in Haiti” had “donated” 10,000 acres of land to him. So who was this very generous guy? And why would anyone give anything to Tony Rodham—except to try to influence the Clintons, who were running the show in Haiti. Tony testified under oath in a lawsuit filed by his former lawyer that he was in regular contact with Bill Clinton, nudging him to grant the $22 million from his Fund, and that he was assured that it would happen soon. In his testimony, Tony made it clear that the Clinton Foundation was the vehicle for his dealings. According to the
New York Times
, he said that it was the foundation that got him in touch with officials in Haiti. The Clinton Foundation denied knowing anything about it. Sure.

Meanwhile, Roger was able to pick up a $100,000 consulting gig with a group of builders who wanted to build houses in Haiti. His benefactor, businessman Wayne Coleman, told the
New York Times
, “I paid Roger $100,000 . . . Basically, he promised to get us a contract through the Clinton Foundation for a project over there. What he was really trying to do was sell the influence of his brother.”
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Neither Roger's nor Tony's Haiti schemes have worked out.

During the Clinton presidency, Bill Clinton's brother Roger collected $700,000 in cash, money orders, and American Express
Travelers Cheques issued in foreign countries. Roger told FBI agents that he “received money for President Clinton from foreign governments”
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during Bill's presidency. Roger says that the first few times he came to Washington bearing cash, he gave it to his brother. But after that, he told the FBI that either Bill or his staff told him that the president could not accept money from foreign governments and that he should send the money back.

Now that's a good one, isn't it? What are the odds that Roger Clinton packed up wads of cash and sent it back to where it came from? And what about the first few times? What happened to that money? In 2002, the House Committee on Government Reform issued a scathing report on the Clinton presidential pardons with disturbing findings about Bill's brother. “Roger Clinton engaged in a systematic effort to trade on his brother's name”
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during the Clinton administration, the report found. The section of the Committee report on Roger went well beyond just pardons and included a number of his other schemes to trade on his relationship to the president.

His combined take was $700,000—and that's just what he deposited in his bank account and could be traced. It seems likely that he pocketed or spent at least some additional cash. Roger insisted that his brother was aware of his activities and approved of them. Roger admitted to receiving $335,000 in cash and traveler's checks from foreign sources such as South Korea, Venezuela, and Taiwan that were deposited into his account during Bill's presidency, as well as an additional $150,000. Roger refused to tell the Committee why he had received the checks, but apparently told the FBI that a lot of it was for overseas “concerts” by his band. Let's get real. Roger wasn't exactly Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones.

The committee noted that the fact that the traveler's checks were provided blank, “suggests that the funds were intentionally provided to Clinton in a manner calculated to conceal their origin.”
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All of the traveler's checks were purchased overseas and brought to the United States by Roger Clinton, who did not disclose them to Customs officials as required by federal law. The Committee also
noted that it was likely that there were more traveler's checks and cash that were not deposited into his account.

The House Committee uncovered these checks totaling $335,000 in Roger Clinton's bank account: