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WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton, the presumed frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, will give a pair of speeches Wednesday in Canada co-hosted by a major bank that has been the subject of several investigations into wrongdoing over the past dozen years.
Clinton refused to say if she's being paid for the speeches and the bank says it is unaware of Clinton’s contractual agreement. But the appearances are all but certain to fuel complaints that she's too close to the corporate elites, especially coming a day after President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech focusing on the plight of the middle class and signs that several top Republicans also plan to make economic populism a centerpiece of their campaigns.
Clinton has given dozens of speeches since leaving office as Secretary of State, many for free and many drawing paychecks of as much as $200,000 to $300,000. The Wednesday addresses could stand out, as they’ll be hosted by a foreign bank with a history of investigations by U.S. officials.
In 2003, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce settled a case with the Securities and Exchange Commission for $80 million for allegedly helping the Enron energy company mislead investors through a series of transactions over a period of several years, according to the SEC. At least two executives agreed to settle charges of aiding and abetting the fraud, paying a total of $600,000.
In 2005, CIBC settled another case with SEC for $125 million after it was accused of financing late trading to increase their customers' trading profits at the expense of long-term mutual fund shareholders, according to the SEC.
And again in 2005, the bank agreed to pay nearly a half million dollars to settle SEC allegations that it broke the law by underwriting municipal securities for the state of California after making campaign donations to six politicians, including former Democratic California Gov. Gray Davis, according to the SEC. Securities law forbids a corporate donor from doing municipal securities work for an issuer within two years of a contribution.
More recently, it was hit with a series of class action lawsuits seeking $4 billion over allegations that it did not adequately warn investors of its exposure to the U.S. subprime market. In each case, even the ones in which CIBC settled, it denied any wrongdoing.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/01/19/253592/clinton-talks-to-be-hosted-by.html#storylink=cpy
Clinton refused to say if she's being paid for the speeches and the bank says it is unaware of Clinton’s contractual agreement. But the appearances are all but certain to fuel complaints that she's too close to the corporate elites, especially coming a day after President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech focusing on the plight of the middle class and signs that several top Republicans also plan to make economic populism a centerpiece of their campaigns.
Clinton has given dozens of speeches since leaving office as Secretary of State, many for free and many drawing paychecks of as much as $200,000 to $300,000. The Wednesday addresses could stand out, as they’ll be hosted by a foreign bank with a history of investigations by U.S. officials.
In 2003, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce settled a case with the Securities and Exchange Commission for $80 million for allegedly helping the Enron energy company mislead investors through a series of transactions over a period of several years, according to the SEC. At least two executives agreed to settle charges of aiding and abetting the fraud, paying a total of $600,000.
In 2005, CIBC settled another case with SEC for $125 million after it was accused of financing late trading to increase their customers' trading profits at the expense of long-term mutual fund shareholders, according to the SEC.
And again in 2005, the bank agreed to pay nearly a half million dollars to settle SEC allegations that it broke the law by underwriting municipal securities for the state of California after making campaign donations to six politicians, including former Democratic California Gov. Gray Davis, according to the SEC. Securities law forbids a corporate donor from doing municipal securities work for an issuer within two years of a contribution.
More recently, it was hit with a series of class action lawsuits seeking $4 billion over allegations that it did not adequately warn investors of its exposure to the U.S. subprime market. In each case, even the ones in which CIBC settled, it denied any wrongdoing.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/01/19/253592/clinton-talks-to-be-hosted-by.html#storylink=cpy
Ratickle
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A good running mate for Hillary. Lies about being under fire too!!!! He accidently thought he had got shot down, but it was some other helicopter. Kinda like the way he reports all of the news, not real, just whatever they think up (until they get caught).
Brian Williams is coming clean, admitting the helicopter he traveled in during NBC's coverage of the 2003 Iraq invasion never once came under fire, despite Williams' story to the contrary.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/br...ame-under-fire-in-iraq-i-apologize/ar-AA8ZGmJ
Brian Williams is coming clean, admitting the helicopter he traveled in during NBC's coverage of the 2003 Iraq invasion never once came under fire, despite Williams' story to the contrary.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/br...ame-under-fire-in-iraq-i-apologize/ar-AA8ZGmJ
Ratickle
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Maybe he will have the time to campaign with Hillary!!
Longtime "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw reportedly wants his successor, Brian Williams, thrown out of the big chair after he admitted fabricating key portions of a story he repeatedly told about his reporting experience during the Iraq War in 2003.
The New York Post, citing sources at the network, reported that Brokaw, 74, has been "making a lot of noise at NBC that a lesser journalist or producer would have been immediately fired or suspended for a false report."
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...ts-brian-williams-fired-over-fabricated-iraq/
Longtime "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw reportedly wants his successor, Brian Williams, thrown out of the big chair after he admitted fabricating key portions of a story he repeatedly told about his reporting experience during the Iraq War in 2003.
The New York Post, citing sources at the network, reported that Brokaw, 74, has been "making a lot of noise at NBC that a lesser journalist or producer would have been immediately fired or suspended for a false report."
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...ts-brian-williams-fired-over-fabricated-iraq/
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