{"id":1295,"date":"2008-03-07T09:34:39","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T13:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2008-03-07T09:34:39","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T13:34:39","slug":"more-clinton-stock-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1295","title":{"rendered":"More Clinton stock shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all remember the greatest stock trade in history when Hillary Clinton raked in a cool 100 grand from a $10,000 investment when she and her husband were in Arkansas. Well the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080307\/NATION\/15653289\/1001\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Times&#8217;s<\/a> Jim McElhatton reports this morning that Bill Clinton made have made an equally fortunate deal;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The spring before his wife began her White House campaign, former President Bill Clinton earned $700,000 for his foundation by selling stock that he had been given from an Internet search company that was co-founded by a convicted felon and backed by the Chinese government, public records show.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Clinton had gotten the nonpublicly traded stock from Accoona Corp. back in 2004 as a gift for giving a speech at a company event. He landed the windfall by selling the 200,000 shares to an undisclosed buyer in May 2006, commanding $3.50 a share at a time when the company was reporting millions of dollars of losses, according to interviews.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the William J. Clinton Foundation declined to identify the buyer who was willing to pay so much for a struggling company&#8217;s stock, saying only that the transaction was handled by a securities broker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny how the Chinese always seem to be behind everything that casts a bit of shade over the Clintons, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all remember the greatest stock trade in history when Hillary Clinton raked in a cool &hellip; <a title=\"More Clinton stock shenanigans\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1295\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Clinton stock shenanigans<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-politics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}