To: gronieel2 who wrote (860607 ) 5/29/2015 10:09:49 AM From: Brumar89 Respond to Teflon Tony Rodham [ I see him as no more sleazier than Hillary and Bill ] by Brendan Bordelon May 28, 2015 4:00 AM Sitting in a courtroom three years ago, after skipping out on a sizable legal bill , Hillary Rodham Clinton’s youngest brother struck a reassuring tone: Don’t worry, the money is coming. “I deal through the Clinton Foundation,” Tony Rodham said, according to court transcripts uncovered by the New York Times. He gave his word that Hillary and Bill were setting him up with Haitian-government permits to build a $22 million housing development in the earthquake-stricken country. “I hound my brother-in-law, because it’s his fund that we’re going to get our money from,” Rodham explained, promising a $1 million check once the Haitian-government paved the way, enough both to cover the outstanding legal fees and take his family to Disney World.......... Rodham led a hard-scrabble life before his brother-in-law’s ascension to the White House. He struggled in school, trying twice but ultimately failing to earn a college degree. He worked as an insurance salesman, a repo man, and a prison guard — sometimes relying on the Clintons to secure even these unglamorous gigs. For nearly ten years he lived with older brother Hugh Rodham in a south-Florida condo, working as a private detective and a process server.[ Bill with the Rodham boys ] Everything changed after Bill Clinton’s 1992 nomination, when Rodham suddenly gained employment as a constituency-outreach consultant with the Democratic National Committee. He didn’t hold the job long — from the get-go, he seemed more interested in leveraging his White House connections to pursue exotic business ventures. In 1997, while working as a consultant for a company trying to break into post-Soviet Russia, Rodham arranged a meeting between Bill Clinton and the mayor of Moscow, who was rumored to have mob ties. That success led to more work in the former Soviet bloc, and in 1999, he and his brother Hugh worked with politicians and government officials from the ex-Soviet state of Georgia to develop a $118 million hazelnut-exporting business. The Rodham brothers caused an international crisis when a rival of Georgia’s U.S.-backed president touted his meeting with them as a White House seal of approval. The deal was ultimately scuttled, but Rodham continued to meet with other third-world strongmen, including the autocratic prime minister of Cambodia. His foreign ventures died down for a time after the Clintons left office, and his finances crumbled. Hillary Clinton would later say that this was the time her family was “dead broke,” so her brother, of course, suffered too. By 2007, he was behind on his mortgage payments and owed his ex-wife $158,000 in alimony and child support. But, as usual, Rodham’s fortunes rose with those of his sister: His work picked up again when Hillary was tapped as secretary of state in 2009. Using the Clinton Foundation’s charitable work in Haiti as a vehicle, Rodham energetically sought business opportunities in the island nation’s tightly controlled economy . By 2013, he was working for VCS, the company developing a controversial gold mine in Haiti. The mining company’s CEO told the Washington Post that family ties had nothing to do with Rodham’s hiring, explaining instead that Rodham’s work at investment firm Gulf Coast Funds Management gave him access to the investors needed for the Haitian project. Rodham was hired as president and CEO of Gulf Coast Funds in 2010, by its then-chairman Terry McAuliffe, a longtime Clinton friend and ally who was elected governor of Virginia in 2013. The group worked to secure U.S. visas for wealthy foreign investors , primarily to fund McAuliffe’s green-energy company GreenTech Automotive, which itself drew scrutiny from multiple federal agencies. “If she’s the candidate for president and then becomes president, ‘Katie, bar the door.’” http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418964/teflon-tony-rodham-clintons-shady-id-brendan-bordelon
