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https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/07/hillarys-america-secret-history- democratic-party-dinesh-dsouza-clinton-foundation/

It filtered money through Haiti and back to itself.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article is excerpted from Dinesh D’Souza’s
new book, Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party.

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In January 2015 a group of Haitians surrounded the New York offices of the Clinton Foundation. They chanted slogans, accusing Bill and Hillary
Clinton of having robbed them of “billions of dollars.” Two months later,
the Haitians were at it again, accusing the Clintons of duplicity,
malfeasance, and theft. And in May 2015, they were back, this time outside
New York’s Cipriani, where Bill Clinton received an award and collected a $500,000 check for his foundation. “Clinton, where’s the money?” the
Haitian signs read. “In whose pockets?” Said Dhoud Andre of the Commission Against Dictatorship, “We are telling the world of the crimes that Bill
and Hillary Clinton are responsible for in Haiti.”

Haitians like Andre may sound a bit strident, but he and the protesters
had good reason to be disgruntled. They had suffered a heavy blow from
Mother Nature, and now it appeared that they were being battered again —
this time by the Clintons. Their story goes back to 2010, when a massive
7.0 earthquake devastated the island, killing more than 200,000 people, leveling 100,000 homes, and leaving 1.5 million people destitute.

The devastating effect of the earthquake on a very poor nation provoked worldwide concern and inspired an outpouring of aid money intended to
rebuild Haiti. Countries around the world, as well as private and
philanthropic groups such as the Red Cross and the Salvation Army,
provided some $10.5 billion in aid, with $3.9 billion of it coming from
the United States.

Haitians such as Andre, however, noticed that very little of this aid
money actually got to poor people in Haiti. Some projects championed by
the Clintons, such as the building of industrial parks and posh hotels,
cost a great deal of money and offered scarce benefits to the truly needy. Port-au-Prince was supposed to be rebuilt; it was never rebuilt. Projects
aimed at creating jobs proved to be bitter disappointments. Haitian unemployment remained high, largely undented by the funds that were
supposed to pour into the country. Famine and illness continued to
devastate the island nation.

The Haitians were initially sympathetic to the Clintons. One may say they believed in the message of “hope and change.” With his customary
overstatement, Bill told the media, “Wouldn’t it be great if they become
the first wireless nation in the world? They could, I’m telling you, they really could.”

I don’t blame the Haitians for falling for it; Bill is one of the world’s greatest story-tellers. He has fooled people far more sophisticated than
the poor Haitians. Over time, however, the Haitians wised up. Whatever
their initial expectations, many saw that much of the aid money seems
never to have reached its destination; rather, it disappeared along the
way.

Where did it go? It did not escape the attention of the Haitians that Bill Clinton was the designated UN representative for aid to Haiti. Following
the earthquake, Bill Clinton had with media fanfare established the Haiti Reconstruction Fund. Meanwhile, his wife Hillary was the United States secretary of state. She was in charge of U.S. aid allocated to Haiti.
Together the Clintons were the two most powerful people who controlled the
flow of funds to Haiti from around the world.

Haitian deals appeared to be a quid pro quo for filling the coffers of the Clintons.

The Haitian protesters noticed an interesting pattern involving the
Clintons and the designation of how aid funds were used. They observed
that a number of companies that received contracts in Haiti happened to be entities that made large donations to the Clinton Foundation. The Haitian contracts appeared less tailored to the needs of Haiti than to the needs
of the companies that were performing the services. In sum, Haitian deals appeared to be a quid pro quo for filling the coffers of the Clintons.

For example, the Clinton Foundation selected Clayton Homes, a construction company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, to build temporary shelters in Haiti. Buffett is an active member of the Clinton Global
Initiative who has donated generously to the Clintons as well as the
Clinton Foundation. The contract was supposed to be given through the
normal United Nations bidding process, with the deal going to the lowest
bidder who met the project’s standards. UN officials said, however, that
the contract was never competitively bid for.

Clayton offered to build “hurricane-proof trailers” but what they actually delivered turned out to be a disaster. The trailers were structurally
unsafe, with high levels of formaldehyde and insulation coming out of the walls. There were problems with mold and fumes. The stifling heat inside
made Haitians sick and many of them abandoned the trailers because they
were ill-constructed and unusable.

The Clintons also funneled $10 million in federal loans to a firm called InnoVida, headed by Clinton donor Claudio Osorio. Osorio had loaded its
board with Clinton cronies, including longtime Clinton ally General Wesley Clark; Hillary’s 2008 finance director Jonathan Mantz; and Democratic fundraiser Chris Korge who has helped raise millions for the Clintons.

Normally the loan approval process takes months or even years. But in this case, a government official wrote, “Former President Bill Clinton is
personally in contact with the company to organize its logistical and
support needs. And as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has made
available State Department resources to assist with logistical
arrangements.”

InnoVida had not even provided an independently audited financial report
that is normally a requirement for such applications. This requirement, however, was waived. On the basis of the Clinton connection, InnoVida’s application was fast-tracked and approved in two weeks.

The company, however, defaulted on the loan and never built any houses. An investigation revealed that Osorio had diverted company funds to pay for
his Miami Beach mansion, his Maserati, and his Colorado ski chalet. He
pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in 2013, and is
currently serving a twelve-year prison term on fraud charges related to
the loan.

Several Clinton cronies showed up with Bill to a 2011 Housing Expo that
cost more than $2 million to stage. Bill Clinton said it would be a model
for the construction of thousands of homes in Haiti. In reality, no homes
have been built. A few dozen model units were constructed but even they
have not been sold. Rather, they are now abandoned and have been taken
over by squatters.

The Schools They Never Built

USAID contracts to remove debris in Port-au-Prince went to a Washington-
based company named CHF International. The company’s CEO David Weiss, a campaign contributor to Hillary in 2008, was deputy U.S. trade
representative for North American Affairs during the Clinton
administration. The corporate secretary of the board, Lauri Fitz-Pegado,
served in a number of posts in the Clinton administration, including
assistant secretary of commerce.The Clintons claim to have built schools
in Haiti. But the New York Times discovered that when it comes to the
Clintons, “built” is a term with a very loose interpretation. For example,
the newspaper located a school featured in the Clinton Foundation annual
report as “built through a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to
Action.” In reality, “The Clinton Foundation’s sole direct contribution to
the school was a grant for an Earth Day celebration and tree-building activity.”

The Clintons claim to have built schools in Haiti. But the New York Times discovered that when it comes to the Clintons, ‘built’ is a term with a
very loose interpretation.

USAID contracts also went to consulting firms such as New York–based
Dalberg Global Development Advisors, which received a $1.5 million
contract to identify relocation sites for Haitians. This company is an
active participant and financial supporter of the Clinton Global
Initiative. A later review by USAID’s inspector general found that Dalberg
did a terrible job, naming uninhabitable mountains with steep ravines as possible sites for Haitian rebuilding.

Foreign governments and foreign companies got Haitian deals in exchange
for bankrolling the Clinton Foundation. The Clinton Foundation lists the Brazilian construction firm OAS and the InterAmerican Development Bank
(IDB) as donors that have given it between $1 billion and $5 billion.

The IDB receives funding from the State Department, and some of this
funding was diverted to OAS for Haitian road-building contracts. Yet an
IDB auditor, Mariela Antiga, complained that the contracts were padded
with “excessive costs” to build roads “no one needed.” Antiga also alleged
that IDB funds were going to a construction project on private land owned
by former Haitian president Rene Preval — a Clinton buddy — and several of
his cronies. For her efforts to expose corruption, Antiga was promptly instructed by the IDB to pack her bags and leave Haiti.

In 2011, the Clinton Foundation brokered a deal with Digicel, a cell- phone-service provider seeking to gain access to the Haitian market. The Clintons arranged to have Digicel receive millions in U.S. taxpayer money
to provide mobile phones. The USAID Food for Peace program, which the
State Department administered through Hillary aide Cheryl Mills,
distributed Digicel phones free to Haitians.

Digicel didn’t just make money off the U.S. taxpayer; it also made money
off the Haitians. When Haitians used the phones, either to make calls or transfer money, they paid Digicel for the service. Haitians using
Digicel’s phones also became automatically enrolled in Digicel’s mobile program. By 2012, Digicel had taken over three-quarters of the cell-phone market in Haiti.

Digicel is owned by Denis O’Brien, a close friend of the Clintons. O’Brien secured three speaking engagements in his native Ireland that paid
$200,000 apiece. These engagements occurred right at the time that Digicel
was making its deal with the U.S. State Department. O’Brien has also
donated lavishly to the Clinton Foundation, giving between $1 million and
$5 million sometime in 2010–2011.

Coincidentally the United States government paid Digicel $45 million to
open a hotel in Port-au-Prince. Now perhaps it could be argued that
Haitians could use a high-priced hotel to attract foreign investors and
provide jobs for locals. Thus far, however, this particular hotel seems to employ only a few dozen locals, which hardly justifies the sizable
investment that went into building it. Moreover, there are virtually no
foreign investors; the rooms are mostly unoccupied; the ones that are
taken seem mainly for the benefit of Digicel’s visiting teams.

https://youtu.be/pkESDOIQmmw

In addition, the Clintons got their cronies to build Caracol Industrial
Park, a 600-acre garment factory that was supposed to make clothes for
export to the United States and create — according to Bill Clinton —
100,000 new jobs in Haiti. The project was funded by the U.S. government
and cost hundreds of millions in taxpayer money, the largest single
allocation of U.S. relief aid.

Yet Caracol has proven a massive failure. First, the industrial park was
built on farmland and the farmers had to be moved off their property. Many
of them feel they were pushed out and inadequately compensated. Some of
them lost their livelihoods. Second, Caracol was supposed to include
25,000 homes for Haitian employees; in the end, the Government
Accountability Office reports that only around 6,000 homes were built.
Third, Caracol has created 5,000 jobs, less than 10 percent of the jobs promised. Fourth, Caracol is exporting very few products and most of the facility is abandoned. People stand outside every day looking for work,
but there is no work to be had, as Haiti’s unemployment rate hovers around
40 percent.

The Clintons say Caracol can still be salvaged. But former Haitian prime minister Jean Bellerive says, “I believe the momentum to attract people
there in a massive way is past. Today, it has failed.” Still, Bellerive’s standard of success may not be the same one used by the Clintons. After
all, the companies that built Caracol with U.S. taxpayer money have done
fine — even if poor Haitians have seen few of the benefits.

Then there is the strange and somehow predictable involvement of Hillary Clinton’s brother Hugh Rodham. Rodham put in an application for $22
million from the Clinton Foundation to build homes on ten thousand acres
of land that he said a “guy in Haiti” had “donated” to him.

“I deal through the Clinton Foundation,” Rodham told the New York Times.
“I hound my brother-in-law because it’s his fund that we’re going to get
our money from.” Rodham said he expected to net $1 million personally on
the deal. Unfortunately, his application didn’t go through.

Rodham had better luck, however, on a second Haitian deal. He mysteriously found himself on the advisory board of a U.S. mining company called VCS.
This by itself is odd because Rodham’s resume lists no mining experience; rather, Rodham is a former private detective and prison guard.

The mining company, however, seems to have recognized Rodham’s value. They brought him on board in October 2013 to help secure a valuable gold mining permit in Haiti. Rodham was promised a “finder’s fee” if he could land the contract. Sure enough, he did. For the first time in 50 years, Haiti
awarded two new gold mining permits and one of them went to the company
that had hired Hillary’s brother.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say the Clintons don’t care about Haiti. Yet it seems clear that Haitian welfare is not their priority.

The deal provoked outrage in the Haitian Senate. “Neither Bill Clinton nor
the brother of Hillary Clinton are individuals who share the interest of
the Haitian people,” said Haitian mining representative Samuel Nesner.
“They are part of the elite class who are operating to exploit the Haitian people.”

Is this too harsh a verdict? I wouldn’t go so far as to say the Clintons
don’t care about Haiti. Yet it seems clear that Haitian welfare is not
their priority. Their priority is, well, themselves. The Clintons seem to believe in Haitian reconstruction and Haitian investment as long as these projects match their own private economic interests. They have steered the rebuilding of Haiti in a way that provides maximum benefit to themselves.

No wonder the Clintons refused to meet with the Haitian protesters. Each
time the protesters showed up, the Clintons were nowhere to be seen. They
have never directly addressed the Haitians’ claims. Strangely enough, they
have never been required to do so. The progressive media scarcely covered
the Haitian protest. Somehow the idea of Haitian black people calling out
the Clintons as aid money thieves did not appeal to the grand pooh-bahs at
CBS News, the New York Times, and NPR.

For most Democrats, the topic is both touchy and distasteful. It’s one
thing to rob from the rich but quite another to rob from the poorest of
the poor. Some of the Democratic primary support for Bernie Sanders was undoubtedly due to Democrats’ distaste over the financial shenanigans of
the Clintons. Probably these Democrats considered the Clintons to be
unduly grasping and opportunistic, an embarrassment to the great
traditions of the Democratic party.

— Dinesh D’?Souza is the author of Hillary’s America: The Secret History
of the Democratic Party.


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