More donors to the Clinton foundation are being outed as receiving favors from the Hillary Clinton State Department. Frank Giustra of Canada is one example of a newly revealed Clinton foundation donor who received benefits and favoriable treatment from the State Department while Hillary Clinton was involved. Breitbart reveals that Giustra flew to Kazakhstan in September 2005 and met with Kazakh dictator Nursultan Nazarbeyev. Giustra wanted lucrative uranium mining concessions, and within 48 hours of Clinton and Giustra’s trip, Giustra’s company, then-named UrAsia Energy, signed memos of understanding outlining the transfer of uranium mining assets.
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Months after the trip, Giustra transferred $31.1 million to the Clinton Foundation and announced a multi-year commitment to donate $100 million to the Clinton’s family foundation, as well as half of his future profits.
“All of my chips, almost, are on Bill Clinton,” said Giustra. “He can do things and ask for things no one else can.”
UrAsia Energy then transferred its uranium assets through a merger with a company called Uranium One. In 2009, the Russian State Nuclear Agency (ROSATOM) purchased a minority stake in Uranium One. During Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Sec. of State, Clinton served on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a small executive branch task force created in 1975 to evaluate investment transactions that might have a direct effect on U.S. national security. When CFIUS approved Russia’s October 2010 purchase of Uranium One, the deal was projected to transfer half of U.S. uranium output to the Russian government by 2015.
“The ultimate authority to approve or reject the Russian acquisition rested with the cabinet officials on the foreign investment committee, including Mrs. Clinton — whose husband was collecting millions of dollars in donations from people associated with Uranium One,” reports the New York Times.
In addition to Frank Giustra, the upcoming Clinton Cash book reveals—and the New York Times confirms—a host of Clinton Foundation donors were connected to the uranium deal, including:
Frank Holmes, a shareholder in the deal who donated between $250,000 and $500,000 (the Clinton Foundation doesn’t report exact amounts, only in ranges) and is a Clinton Foundation adviser
Neil Woodyer, Frank Giustra’s colleague who founded Endeavor Financial and pledged $500,000 as well as promises of “ongoing financial support”
Robert Disbrow, a Haywood Securities broker, the firm that provided “$58 million in capital to float shares of UrAsia’s private placement,” gave the Clinton’s family foundation between $1 and $5 million, according to Clinton Cash
Paul Reynolds, a Canaccord Capital Inc., executive who donated between $1 million and $5 million. “The UrAsia deal was the largest in Canaccord’s history,” reports Schweizer
GMP Securities Ltd., a UrAsia Energy shareholder that pledged to donate a portion of its profits to the Clinton Foundation
Robert Cross, a major shareholder who serves as UrAsia Energy Director who pledged portions of his future income to the Clinton Foundation
Egizio Blanchini, “the Capital Markets vice chair and Global cohead of BMO’s Global Metals and Mining group, had also been an underwriter on the mining deals. BMO paid $600,000 for two tables at the CGS-GI’s March 2008 benefit”
Sergei Kurzin, the Russian rainmaker involved in the Kazakhstan uranium deal and a shareholder in UrAsia Energy, also pledged $1 million to the Foundation
Uranium One chairman Ian Telfer committed $2.35 million