Bill/Hillathon just won't stop.

Russians!/Asians!

EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Looked Other Way As Bill’s China $ Link Returned To US

http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/21/convicted-clinton-indonesian-financier...

Selling missile secrets to China? Taking illegal foreign (Chinese) campaign contributions? (oh, Al Gore -- it's okay, they're just monks -- is that you too?) Nothing to see here move along.

Except don't.

When James Riady and his family’s company, called the Lippo Group, pled guilty to campaign fraud in the 1990s for donations to Bill Clinton, it looked as if the Indonesian-based businessman’s days were over — and just another ugly chapter of American political history.

Yet, starting in 2011 when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, the Riadys started their return to the United States through a new Chinese subsidiary called Lippo China Resources, which sought to become a minority owner in a Utah company called CS Mining.

The Clinton-Riady saga appeared to end Jan. 10, 2001, 10 days before Clinton left the White House, when Attorney General Janet Reno penned a guilty plea for Riady. The move infuriated Republicans because it looked as if Clinton was going easy on his former financial patron.

Riady received no prison time. But Lippo Group paid an $8.6 million fine– the largest campaign finance fine in the history of the United States.

The invested capital in the CS Mining property is estimated at $200 million but Lippo China hopes to acquire it for as little as $28 million through the bankruptcy proceedings, according to creditors who spoke to TheDCNF on the condition of anonymity.

If Lippo China wins majority ownership, it will preside over valuable mineral reserves, which sit on federal lands owned by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management.

Last year, unbeknownst to the rest of the CS board, Lippo secretly acquired the debt of a high-technology copper plant on its property owned by Noble Energy, paying $22 million. The plant was valued at $32 million but the energy company, eager for the cash, sold its debt with a $10 million discount.

One creditor said he believed Lippo China acted boldly last summer in the expectation that Hillary Clinton would win the White House and bless the deal as president. She raised no objections in 2009, when Lippo re-entered the United States that year.

James Riady’s relationships with the Clintons go back to when Bill was governor of Arkansas. Riady reportedly pledged $1 million to Clinton when he launched his 1992 presidential campaign. More than $250,000 in illegal campaign donations were run through Riady’s LippoBank, based in California, according to the Justice Department.

In return, the Justice Department said Riady and his father Mochtar Riady gained inside access throughout the Clinton administration. James Riady visited the Clinton White House on 14 different occasions

The Justice Department said in return for the campaign donations, the Riady’s gained “access, meetings and time with politicians, elected officials and other high-level government officials.”

Despite Riady’s guilty plea, the Indonesian billionaire remains quite open about how his payments to the Clintons have produced tangible benefits for him and his family’s company.

But, but, but Russia!

But, but, but Clintons!

Why are they not in jail along with all their cronies?

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Carried off in a body bag is the only way those two will ever leave.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

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@dkmich

...there's Chelsea and her sleazy husband waiting in the wings.

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