{"id":389241,"date":"2018-12-15T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/clinton-foundation-oversight-panel-hears-explosive-testimony-rt-usa-news\/"},"modified":"2018-12-15T09:00:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T08:00:10","slug":"clinton-foundation-oversight-panel-hears-explosive-testimony-rt-usa-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/clinton-foundation-oversight-panel-hears-explosive-testimony-rt-usa-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Foundation oversight panel hears explosive testimony \u2014 RT USA News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Fraud investigators have exposed the Clinton Foundation\u2019s alleged misdeeds in a Congressional hearing, describing it as a de facto \u201cforeign agent\u201d devoted not to charity but to \u201cadvancing the personal interests of its principals.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Clinton Foundation acted as an agent of foreign governments \u201c<em>early in its life and throughout its existence<\/em>,\u201d according to testimony by former government forensic investigator John Moynihan, which, if true, would not only render it in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act but also would violate its nonprofit charter, putting it on the hook for a massive quantity of unpaid taxes.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>The foundation began acting as an agent of foreign governments early in its life and continued doing so throughout its existence, as such, the foundation should have registered under FARA.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"512\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/standalone\/?455872-1\/hearing-clinton-foundation\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Moynihan and fellow ex-government investigator Lawrence Doyle shared 6,000 pages of evidence with the IRS over 18 months ago, only to be met with silence. They shared them with the FBI multiple times \u2013 ditto. Yet when the pair testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, they refused to turn over the documents, stating they did not want to interfere with any ongoing investigations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/440256-clinton-uranium-documents-classified\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.10\/thumbnail\/5bb506d1fc7e93500a8b462f.jpg\" alt=\"A Uranium One milling facility in Utah \u00a9 George Frey\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>The committee chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) said witnesses\u2019 reluctance to share all the documents was hardly a \u201c<em>good foundation for truth and transparency<\/em>,\u201d while Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) said he felt the duo was \u201c<em>using<\/em>\u201d the panel for their own benefit.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThese are not our facts. They are not your facts. They are the facts of the Clinton Foundation,\u201d<\/em> said Moynihan, maintaining his interest in the case is purely financial \u2013 not political.<\/p>\n<p>Testifying on their findings, Doyle highlighted the Foundation\u2019s alleged \u201c<em>misuse of donated public funds<\/em>,\u201d explaining that it \u201c<em>falsely attested that it received funds and used them for charitable purposes which was, in fact, not the case. Rather the foundation pursued in an array of activities both domestically and abroad<\/em>,\u201d which included activities \u201c<em>properly characterized as profit-oriented and taxable undertakings of private enterprise, again failing the operational tests of philanthropy referenced above<\/em>,\u201d referring to the equally non-charitable pursuit of funding the Clinton Presidential Library.<\/p>\n<p>John Huber, appointed by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate the Clinton Foundation after Sessions recused himself from doing so, was conspicuously absent from the hearing, even though his job is to probe Clinton\u2019s approval of the sale of US uranium assets to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Judicial Watch\u2019s Tom Fitton also gave testimony, outlining how \u201c<em>it was hard to tell where the Clinton State Department ended and the Clinton Foundation began<\/em>\u201d \u2013 so much so that the King of Bahrain, unable to meet with Clinton as Secretary of State, secured a meeting with the Foundation instead.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more-big\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/445299-mueller-uranium-clintons-whistleblower\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"read-more-big__container\"><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__content\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__subtitle\">Also on rt.com<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__title\">FBI raids home of whistleblower who had \u2018dirt\u2019 on Clinton Foundation, Mueller<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__cover\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.12\/thumbnail\/5c01cfe6fc7e935b248b456a.JPG')\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) likened the testimony to \u201c<em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>,\u201d claiming yet another investigation of the Clintons was an attempt to distract from the ongoing investigations of Trump. \u201c<em>We have a ruling\u2026saying there is sufficient grounds to go forward with a criminal investigation of the Trump Foundation, not the Clinton Foundation<\/em>,\u201d he said, adding that the committee had an informant in the Uranium One deal-making process who was unable to present any evidence of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the FBI has missed a deadline to turn over information on why they raided the home of another Clinton Foundation whistleblower, Nathan Cain, earlier this week. Cain\u2019s lawyer says his client \u2013 who reportedly gave the Justice Department documents showing federal officials failed to investigate criminal activity related to the Uranium One deal \u2013 was accused of possessing stolen federal property.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/446522-clinton-foundation-foreign-agent-testimony\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraud investigators have exposed the Clinton Foundation\u2019s alleged misdeeds in a Congressional hearing, describing it as a de facto \u201cforeign agent\u201d devoted not to charity but to \u201cadvancing the personal interests of its principals.\u201d The Clinton Foundation acted as an agent of foreign governments \u201cearly in its life and throughout its existence,\u201d according to testimony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":389242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}