Crooked Hillary in Hot Water Again
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has launched a new investigation into Hillary Clinton over whether the former secretary of state meddled in a Bangladeshi corruption probe to help a Clinton Foundation donor.
‘This new evidence of pay-to-play and special treatment reinforces the appearance that donations to the Clinton Foundation resulted in favorable treatment by Secretary Clinton’s State Department,’ Grassley said.
The Daily Caller first reported Grassley’s move after the publication’s Investigative Group published a piece in May saying that Clinton had sent top U.S. diplomats to pressure Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheik Hasina, and her son Sajeeb Wazed, as the country investigated Clinton friend Muhammad Yunus for corruption.
Yunus, who led the country’s Grameen Bank and whose microfinance concept won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, was accused of overcharging customers and ‘sucking blood from the poor.’
Hasina’s targeting of Yunus, which led to the Clinton ally being removed from atop the bank, was viewed as political retribution for when Yunus briefly flirted with getting into politics, the U.K.’s Independent found.
But because Clinton and other American officials got involved and Yunus had been a Clinton Global Initiative and Clinton Foundation donor, Grassley smelled pay-to-play.
Yunus had given between $100,000 and $250,000 to CGI, the annual Clinton-fronted gathering in New York, along with $25,000 to $50,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
‘If the Secretary of State used her position to intervene in an independent investigation by a sovereign government simply because of a personal and financial relationship stemming from the Clinton Foundation rather than the legitimate foreign policy interests of the United States, then that would be unacceptable,’ Grassley wrote in a letter dated June 1 to current Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
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