Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich

by Peter Schweizer

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  24. For a full detailed account of this story, see the UN report at http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/N1155632.pdf.

  25. Cause, DC-11-04005, 134th Judicial District, Dallas County, Texas.

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  30. “Midroc’s Friends in Washington,” Indian Ocean Newsletter no. 889, January 29, 2000. All three senators were connected to the lobbying firm Verner Lipfert Bernard McPherson and Hand, which was a paid adviser to Midroc.

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  37. “How Politicians Gave Away $100 Bn of Land,” Novafrica Developments, The African Report no. 42 (July 15, 2012).

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  45. US State Department, Embassy in Addis Ababa, “PM Welcomes New Charge with Substance,” WikiLeaks, January 21, 2010, http://wikileaks.org/cable/2010/01/10ADDISABABA82.html.

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  47. US State Department, “Ethiopia: Report on Fiscal Transparency,” WikiLeaks, April 21, 2009, http://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/10ADDISABABA83_a.html.

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  59. “Former Wall Street Banker Philippe Heilberg Gambles on a Warlord’s Continuing Control of 400,000 Hectares of Land in South Sudan,” Sudan Watch, January 10, 2009, http://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2009/01/former-wall-street-banker-philippe.html. “Ambassador Joe Wilson Begins Working with Jarch Capital,” Sudan Tribune, January 19, 2007, http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article19833.

  60. Silverstein, Ken, “Jarch Capital’s Sudanese Gambit,” Harper’s, November 20, 2007, http://harpers.org/blog/2007/11/jarch-capitals-sudanese-gambit/.

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  62. Blas, Javier, and William Wallis, “Buyer Sees Profit in Warlord’s Land,” Financial Times, January 10, 2009, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/2ddacbdc-deb9-11dd-9464-000077b07658.html#axzz3OdxxHjf7.

  63. “Southern Sudan: Oil Investor Banking on Succession?”

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  65. Ibid.

  66. Ibid.

  67. “South Sudan VP Confirms Apology for Bor Massacre,” Sudan Tribune, April 3, 2012, http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article42124.

  68. “Profile: South Sudan Army Defector Peter Gadet,” BBC.com, July 11, 2014, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-25447527.

  69. See Hillary Clinton’s Personal Financial Disclosures, 2011–2012, available at opensecrets.org.

  70. Ragaza, Angela, “Using Star Power to Repair Nigeria’s Image,” New York Times, July 10, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/business/worldbusiness/10nigeria.html?_r=0.

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  75. Okonta, Ike, and Oronto Douglas, Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil (New York: Verso, 2003), 38. Rupert, James, “Corruption Flourished in Abacha’s Regime,” Washington Post, June 9, 1998, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/nigeria/stories/corrupt060998.htm. Adegbamigbe, Ademola, “Nigeria: The Crude Pirate,” The News (Lagos), July 28, 2000, http://allafrica.com/stories/200007280213.html. Salami, Semiu, “Nigeria’s Oil Mafia,” The News (Lagos), January 4, 1999, http://allafrica.com/stories/199901040007.html.

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  77. US Justice Department, “U.S. Forfeits Over $480 Million Stolen by Former Nigerian Dictator in Largest Forfeiture Ever Obtained Through a Kleptocracy Action,” August 7, 2014, http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-forfeits-over-480-million-stolen-former-nigerian-dictator-largest-forfeiture-ever-obtained.

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  84. Silverstein, “Clinton Foundation Donors and Hillary’s Confirmation.”

  85. “Eko Atlantic City,” www.africa-ventures.com, http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/africanawards/pdf/2013/tolu-ogunlesi/tolu-ogunlesi-eko-atlantic-story.pdf.

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