What Would Harry Truman Do?

Family tradition: Chelsea Clinton demanded $65,000 to make a 10-minute speech at The University of Missouri at Kansas City in February 2014 (pictured) after staff balked at her mother's fee.
[From article]
Chelsea Clinton demanded $65,000 to make a 10-minute speech at a public university after they balked at her mother's appearance fee, it has been revealed.
The University of Missouri at Kansas City was looking for a celebrity to open their women's hall of fame in February 2014.
Their initial choice was former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
But when they were told how much it would cost - $275,000 - they turned it down and went to what they thought was the next best thing.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3144664/Hillary-2-0-Chelsea-Clinton-demands-65-000-10-minute-speech-public-university-staff-refuse-pay-mother-s-275-000-fee.html

Hillary 2.0: Chelsea Clinton demands $65,000 for 10-minute speech at public university after staff refuse to pay her mother's $275,000 fee
University of Missouri at Kansas City wanted a celebrity to open their women's hall of fame in February 2014
Initial choice was the former Secretary of State and presidential candidate
But they balked at her extortionate fee and instead asked her daughter
The mother, 35, spoke for 10 minutes and answered questions for 20
She has made the Clinton Foundation $800,000 in speeches in recent years
By WILLS ROBINSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 09:49 EST, 30 June 2015 | UPDATED: 21:29 EST, 30 June 2015

Clintons Charge $500,000 For College Event, Diverting Money From Assisting Poor Students

Even if no taxpayer funds were used as claimed, hard to prove in any case, the same money could have funded ten students tuition for a year at $50,000 each. Once again this shows how the Clintons are exploiting their public positions for private gain. 

[From article]

Many people were shocked when they learned last year Hillary Clinton earned nearly $2 million in the span of 18 months giving speeches at colleges nationwide. Turns out there’s plenty more where that came from.
Arizona State University gave $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation for hosting a Clinton Global Initiative University event on the Tempe campus in 2014, The Arizona Republic reports.
Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton all headlined the three-day meeting, which encourages student attendees to pledge themselves to causes such as education, climate change, human rights, poverty, and public health, the initiative’s website states.
[. . .]
ASU spokesman Mark Johnson told The Arizona Republic in an e-mailed statement that the money used to pay for the event did not come from publicly funded coffers, but rather other parts of the university’s budget, such as tuition, private donations and grants.
“[T]he university co-invested in this educational and promotional opportunity, which was co-produced for our students, and for students from around the world. No state funds were used for this purpose,” Johnson stated.
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This year’s Clinton Global Initiative University event was held in March at the University of Miami, where once again Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton headlined the festivities. It was the second time the campus played host to the event. It has yet to be reported what the university paid the foundation.
For the last 14 years that private university was run by Donna Shalala, who served at Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Clinton. Now Shalala is set to become chief executive officer of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the Wall Street Journal reports.

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/22603/

REPORT: PUBLIC UNIVERSITY PAID CLINTON FOUNDATION $500,000 TO HOST EVENT
by JENNIFER KABBANY - FIX EDITOR

MAY 26, 2015

When Rich Become Poor; When Poor Become Rich

[From article]
Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, are worth between $10 and $50 million, according to their financial disclosure forms – but taxpayers will still pony up nearly $1 million this year to fund their post-White House lifestyle.
Like the three other living former presidents, Jimmy Carter and the two George Bushes, Clinton receives a $201,000 annual pension. But that just scratches the surface of the government benefits he shares with his wife Hillary.
The total for 2014 also includes $157,000 for staff salaries and benefits, $414,000 for office space and $9,000 for phone bills.
In all, The Washington Post first reported, taxpayers are providing Clinton with $944,000 in post-presidential pay and benefits.
That tab was $1.28 million in 2002, the year after he left office, according to a Congressional Research Service report cited by the Post and the Washington Free Beacon.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2667949/Taxpayers-spend-944-000-support-multimillionaire-Bill-Clintons-post-presidential-lifestyle-2014.html

Taxpayers will spend $944,000 to support Bill Clinton's lifestyle in 2014 as he claims he and Hillary are not 'out of touch' because they 'talk to people in our town'
Bill Clinton said Tuesday his wife's claim that they were 'dead broke' after his presidency was 'factually true'
He and Hillary are not 'out of touch,' he insisted, because they go to the grocery store and 'talk to people in our town'
An April Congressional Research Service report found that the federal government has spent $15.9 million on Bill Clinton's retirement since 2001
He got $1.28 million in benefits the year after he left office
Clinton said Tuesday that attacking his wife as a wealthy elite in the run-up to the 2016 election is 'the wrong debate'
This year Clinton's costs include a $201,000 pension, $157,000 for staff salaries and benefits, $414,000 for office space and $9,000 for phone bills
Former president George W. Bush spends even more, costing taxpayers $1.28 million this year and averaging 4 per cent more per year than Clinton
The government inexplicably budgeted $102,000 for Bush's telephone expenses in 2014, and planned to spend $135,000 more on furniture, computers, office supplies and other miscellany
By DAVID MARTOSKO, U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 16:08 EST, 24 June 2014 | UPDATED: 17:00 EST, 24 June 2014

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[From article]
There are two sorts of stock human dramas that play out in every age of history. The first concerns people who were once rich but are now discovering they are poor. The second is their opposite; people who were once poor who suddenly realize they are rich.
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The problem of course is what happens when the long-rich go broke. The once-rich-now-bankrupt become worse than bust, they become ridiculous. A modern example is John Kerry who is making a beggar’s tour of the Middle East.
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Kerry is almost a central-casting perfect picture of a degenerate aristocrat. Just as Chelsea doesn’t do money, neither does Kerry do Foreign Policy. He at least does artistic gestures. Only the other day Kerry made an important announcement. Speaking at a the Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies Pride event at the State Department, he declared “I’m working hard to ensure that by the end of my tenure, we will have lesbian, bisexual and transgender ambassadors in our ranks as well.”
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What Old Money and Power finds hardest to accept is that perhaps their scruffy, uncredentialed and coarse opponents might not only be their equals, but their superiors. One is beginning to suspect that the terror masters are better men — not better or more capable men than normal Americans — but better men than the aristocrats.
[. . .]
The men in the White House are like grifters who inherited a great fortune and have unexpectedly come into clothes, cars, houses and jets without the slightest clue how they were earned.

http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2014/06/24/our-ruling-class/

Our Ruling Class
June 24th, 2014 - 4:39 pm
By Richard Fernandez

Chelsea Clinton Is As Poor As Her Parents

[From article]
'I was curious if I could care about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,' Clinton told The Telegraph. 'That wasn’t the metric of success I wanted in my life.'
[. . . ]
By comparison, her salary is higher than both of the last two editors of the New York Times.
The paycheck from her NBC contract has helped Chelsea and her husband Marc Mezvinsky buy a $10.5 million apartment next to New York's Madison Square Park last spring
[. . .]
The former secretary of state has participated in TV interviews across every major network in the last three weeks, making eyebrow raising statements of her about the Clinton family's financial outlook.
'We came out of the White House not only dead broke but in debt. We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea’s education. You know, it was not easy,' Hillary said.
[. . .]
She graduated from Columbia in the spring of 2010 and married Mezvinsky that summer.
The high-profile wedding was held at the former home of millionaire businessman John Jacob Astor IV on 50 acres of land overlooking the Hudson River in Rhinebeck, New York. The wedding boasted 500 guests and was said to cost more than $3 million. Her custom-made Vera Wang dress cost approximately $25,000 alone.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2666265/I-tried-care-money-I-says-Chelsea-Clinton-married-hedge-funder-lives-11m-home-paid-600-000-NBC-doing-nothing.html

I tried to care about money but I couldn't, says Chelsea Clinton, married to hedge funder, who lives in $11m home, and is paid $600,000 by NBC for doing nothing
Chelsea Clinton said in an interview published over the weekend that she doesn't care about money
Her admission comes on the heels of a report last week that she's being paid $600,000 a year to do a smattering of reports for NBC News
She and her husband bought a $10.5 million apartment last spring
Their 2010 wedding cost more than $3 million
Chelsea has three degrees from exclusive universities and attended a private high school
By FRANCESCA CHAMBERS and ASSOCIATED PRESS
Daily Mail (UK)

PUBLISHED: 14:43 EST, 23 June 2014 | UPDATED: 23:43 EST, 23 June 2014

Clinton Child Paid $600,000 a Year by NBC

[From article]
Chelsea Clinton earned an annual salary of $600,000 at NBC News before switching to a month-to-month contract earlier this year, sources with knowledge of the agreement told POLITICO.
[. . .]
When Clinton joined NBC, many media critics chafed at the network’s decision to employ a former first daughter with no experience in journalism. The New York Post referred to Clinton as “just another spoiled, aimless child of rich, successful parents chauffeured through adulthood by Mommy and Daddy’s connections.”
Yet Clinton’s appointment did not mark the first time NBC Universal had hired children of high-ranking politicians. In 2009, it hired George W. Bush’s daughter Jenna Bush Hager to serve as a correspondent on the “Today” show. In 2011, it hired Sen. John McCain’s daughter Meghan McCain as a contributor on MSNBC.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/chelsea-clinton-nbc-600-k-salary-107827.html

Chelsea Clinton paid $600K by NBC
By DYLAN BYERS and MAGGIE HABERMAN

6/13/14 9:46 AM EDT Updated: 6/13/14 11:16 AM EDT

Feds Raid Poker Games In Manhattan Art Gallery

Posted April 16, 2013 5:02 PM ET; Last updated August 16, 2013 8:25 PM ET


Getty Images

Gisele Bundchen with fugitive art dealer Helly Nahmad eating lunch at Nello's Restaurant in 2003.

Kristy Leibowitz Photo
FBI, IRS and CID, are seen leaving the Helly Nahmad Gallery at 975 Madison Ave carrying apple computers and other items from the space.


Sweeping investigation: Thirty four people, including Molly Bloom, pictured, were charged in what investigators called a Russian organized crime operation that included illegal, high-stakes poker games for the rich and famous


Helly Nahmad
AP PHOTO


Photo: AP
The feds say the ring was led by legendary Russian gangster Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, seen here in 2000.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/ringleader_targeted_because_studded_PB6e0MAaf05CbxgbjbpP3H

Brooklyn man in $100M star-studded poker ring takes plea deal - claims he was targeted by feds because he's Russian
New York Post
By RICH CALDER
Last Updated: 3:18 PM, August 16, 2013
Posted: 2:23 PM, August 16, 2013

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[From article]
Billionaire Manhattan hedge-funder Marc Lasry — who this week turned down a coveted ambassadorship to France after his name surfaced in a $100 million illegal-gambling-ring probe — has deep ties to the Clintons and President Obama.
The relationship was so strong that the powerful Dems hired each other’s children and considered themselves family friends.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/flushed_diplo_pick_tight_with_bill_uJALXAMUGRfLGJarNr5PWJ

Flushed diplo pick tight with Bill & Bam
By JEANE MacINTOSH
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:57 PM, April 27, 2013
Posted: 1:14 AM, April 27, 2013


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[From article]
Another observer put it: “It’s not about the money. It’s ego and rush. That’s all it can be.”
The Nahmads are descended from a prominent Jewish banking family in Aleppo, Syria.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/how_scion_wager_went_bust_G3OWgtuwkPMGSjVNtcaIOL/0

How scion’s wager went 'bust'
‘Ego’ behind billionaire art dealer’s gambling-ring arrest
NEW YORK POST
By ISABEL VINCENT, MELISSA KLEIN and JENNIFER GOULD KEIL
Last Updated: 12:49 PM, April 21, 2013
Posted: 12:47 AM, April 21, 2013



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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311924/Billionaires-son-Hollywood-poker-madam-face-court-32-accused-running-illegal-gambling-ring-wealthy-celebrities-executives.html

Billionaire's son and Hollywood poker madam face court along with 32 others accused of running illegal gambling ring for wealthy celebrities and executives
By DAMIAN GHIGLIOTTY and MICHAEL ZENNIE
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 19:23 EST, 19 April 2013 | UPDATED: 21:38 EST, 19 April 2013


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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/son_bad_bet_FJXOewtrn83xuahYLPPWWP

Son’s bad bet
Risking family’s fortune
New York Post
By BRUCE GOLDING, JENNIFER GOULD KEIL and DAN MANGAN
Last Updated: 4:58 AM, April 18, 2013
Posted: 1:16 AM, April 18, 2013


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[From article]
Federal agents are searching for Helly Nahmad - son of billionaire art dealer David Nahmad - and raided his gallery in the bottom floor of the famed Carlyle Hotel this morning.
The scion is part of one of the most influential art dealing families in the world with a reported $3 billion worth of famed pieces in their portfolio.
Agents also indicted Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, a legendary Russian gangster and one of the world's most wanted international fugitives, as part of the sweep.
[. . .]
FBI agents arrested several people Tuesday in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and elsewhere as part of the investigation.


http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/russian_mob_ran_poker_games_for_1t9nSZfxOdfKwrsiCzmCoM

Feds raid midtown art gallery in bust of Russian mob ran poker games for celebs
By JOSH MARGOLIN
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:06 PM, April 16, 2013
Posted: 9:52 AM, April 16, 2013

Chelsea Clinton's Job

[From article]
The biggest unspoken issue in America today is the emergence of an elite class based on govenrment power in all its manifestations -- tax breaks, subsidies and government-guaranteed loans, political position, and bureaucratic arrogance (the GSA scandals are but the tip of the iceberg). Chelsea Clinton is a perfect representative of that elite's level of presumption.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/04/kim_jong_chelsea.html

April 18, 2012
Kim Jong Chelsea
Thomas Lifson
American Thinker

Chelsea Clinton's Inlaws

[From artilce]
"Mezvinsky, 73, was convicted in 2003 of several acts of fraud. Prosecutors called him a one-man "crime wave" who routinely pulled business scams that netted him $10 million in ill-gotten loot.
[. . .]
He called the lavish wedding, which could cost an estimated $3 million or more, "a rather special occasion and I'm grateful I can be part of it."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/rhinebeck_redemption_bB5fCDM6coSgCUFernScSK

Chelsea Clinton's 'father-in-law' lives down criminal past
By REBECCA ROSENBERG in Rhinebeck, NY, and DAN MANGAN in NY
New York Post
Last Updated: 9:26 AM, July 29, 2010
Posted: 3:31 AM, July 29, 2010