Hillary State Dept. Helped Jailed Clinton Foundation Donor Scam $10 Mil from U.S. for Failed Haiti Project

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The new batch of emails showing that the State Department gave special access to top Clinton Foundation donors while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state brings to mind the case of a shady Miami businessman serving a 12-year prison sentence after scamming the government out of millions. His name is Claudio Osorio, a Clinton Foundation donor who got $10 million from the government after the Clinton State Department reportedly pulled some strings.

Osorio got the money from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a federal agency that operates under the guidance of the State Department, to build houses in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. The OPIC supposedly promotes U.S. government investments abroad to foster the development and growth of free markets. Osorio’s “Haiti project” was supposed to build 500 homes for displaced families in the aftermath of the earthquake. The project never broke ground and Osorio used the money to finance his lavish lifestyle and fund his illicit business ventures. He also ran a fraudulent international company with facilities in the U.S., United Arab Emirates, Germany, Angola and Tanzania that stole millions from investors. Some of the OPIC Haiti money was used to repay investors of his fraudulent company (Innovida), according to federal prosecutors. In September 2013, Osorio was sentenced to 150 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release.

Not surprisingly, the Department of Justice (DOJ) never mentioned Osorio’s Clinton connections and seemed to downplay the $10 million scam of taxpayer funds by focusing on the “victims” that invested in his bogus company. Among them was a beloved professional basketball star. “Osorio offered and sold shareholder interests and joint-venture partnerships in Innovida to select individuals and groups, raising more than $40,000,000 from approximately ten (10) investors and investment groups in the United States and abroad,” a DOJ statement says. “Osorio solicited and recruited investors by making materially false representations and concealing and omitting material facts regarding, among other things, the profitability of the company, the rates of return on investment funds, the use of investors’ funds and the existence of a pending lucrative contract with a third-party entity. Osorio received moneys from investors based on these misrepresentations. Osorio used investor monies for his and his co-conspirators’ personal benefit and to maintain and further the fraud scheme.”

The bigger story is that, despite Osorio’s shady history, it appears that the Clinton State Department helped him get $10 million—which will never be repaid—because he was a Clinton Foundation donor. This connection was not made until years after Osorio got sentenced. After his 2013 sentencing in Miami, the area’s largest newspaper tied him to the Clintons and President Obama as a campaign donor who held fundraisers at his waterfront home, but the foundation was not mentioned. A Washington D.C. newspaper eventually connected the dots after obtaining a document that shows an OPIC official recommending funding for Osorio’s Haiti project. In the document, the OPIC official writes that Osorio’s company had “U.S. persons of political influence that are able to assist in advancing the company’s plans.” It continues: “For instance, former President Bill Clinton is personally in contact with the Company to organize its logistical and support needs,” the document states. “Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made available State Department resources to assist with logistical arrangements.” Additionally, the Clinton Global Initiative had “indicated that it would be willing to contract to purchase 6,500 homes in Haiti from InnoVida within the next year.”

Less than 24 hours after the OPIC official submitted the recommendation, the news report says, OPIC approved Osorio’s $10 million loan to build homes in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Not one was ever built and no one has been held accountable for giving the crooked businessman millions of taxpayer dollars.

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The film, Clinton Cash, was free online for a week.
Over 2 million people watched it.
The part about the Haiti home building scam was so horrid because it showed how Haitians affected by that quake are STILL suffering while these friends of Bill and Hillary lived large.
In Claudio Osorio’s case he was sentenced by a federal judge to 12 & 1/2 years in prison.
There is no word on whether he served a day.
But those poor people.
He (and Hillary and her State Dept) had no shame.
Not said, he hosted fundraisers in his Star Island mansion in Miami for Hillary and the DNC before his arrest. The Democratic National Committee was returned tens of thousands of dollars they got from him. No word on Hillary.

Jeb Bush to return $270,000 paid by fraudster Osorio

According to the agreement, Bush was paid $468,901 between December 2007 and September 2010 for consulting “plus reasonable expenses.”

The Democratic National Committee also agreed to repay $51,525 that Osorio donated, according to another agreement filed Thursday.

Osorio and his wife, Amarilis Osorio, became fixtures on Miami’s celebrity/charity circuit. They hosted President Bill Clinton at Democratic fundraisers at their former home on Star Island.

The settlement references a 2007 contract Bush’s company struck with Osorio for $15,000 a month.

Bush was also a member of InnoVida’s board of directors.

It sounds like this character was scamming everybody and everything, without regard for political affiliation.

I’m sure it’s just another coincidence that the Clinton’s are associated with yet another con man stealing taxpayer money. I wonder why the Clinton Foundation didn’t hand Osorio the $10 mil?

Benghazi….C’mon, even the leaders of the 7 GOP led investigations admitted it was a political witch hunt. And the 13 embassies attacked under Bush where 60 died and never investigated? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-benghazi-investigation_us_561ef9eae4b0c5a1ce62037e

Lost emails….get her! after you get Bush for the 22million emails he lost. This, after he started an illegal war based on lies which killed hundreds of thousands, created ISIS,destroyed the economy while the wealthy got richer.

Clinton Foundation….Nice try: “State Department: ‘No Impropriety’ in Contacts With Clinton Foundation; ‘The Way the Process Works’”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/state-department-no-impropriety-contacts-clinton-foundation-way-process