WIKILEAKS: Re: FYI CGI Africa [Huma: She created this mess and she knows it.]

Source: Wikileaks
Published: Oct 20, 2016
Author: Huma Abedin/Robby Mook
Post Date: 2016-10-20 16:17:32 by nolu chan
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WIKILEAKS: Re: FYI CGI Africa [Huma: She created this mess and she knows it.]

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22030

Re: FYI CGI Africa

From:huma@hrcoffice.com
To: robbymook2015@gmail.com, john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2015-01-18 13:57

Subject: Re: FYI CGI Africa

Thank you for sharing.

Just to give you some context, the condition upon which the Moroccans agreed to host the meeting was her participation. If hrc was not part if it, meeting was a non-starter.

CGI also wasn't pushing for a meeting in Morocco and it wasn't their first choice. This was HRC's idea, our office approached the Moroccans and they 100 percent believe they are doing this at her request. The King has personally committed approx $12 million both for the endowment and to support the meeting.

It will break a lot of china to back out now when we had so many opportunities to do it in the past few months.

She created this mess and she knows it.


From: Robby Mook
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2015 10:38:52 AM
To: Huma Abedin; John Podesta

Subject: FYI CGI Africa

Came up on our call with HRC. John flagged the same issues we discussed, Huma.

HRC said she's sitll considering.

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#1: redleghunter    To: nolu chan (#0)

What's the endowment? Clinton foundation?

redleghunter posted on 2016-10-20 22:49:18   Reply   Private Reply


#2: nolu chan    To: redleghunter (#1)

What's the endowment? Clinton foundation?

I believe so.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/moroccan-cash-flows-to-clinton-foundation-116780

Moroccan cash flows to Clinton Foundation

By Kenneth P. Vogel and Josh Gerstein
Politico
04/08/15 05:53 PM EDT

The Clinton Foundation is accepting a major donation from a Moroccan government-owned company to hold a high-profile conference next month in Marrakech with the king of Morocco — an event likely to reignite concerns about the foundation’s acceptance of foreign money just as Hillary Clinton prepares to announce her presidential candidacy.

Clinton had been scheduled to appear at the meeting in Marrakech, dubbed the Clinton Global Initiative Middle East and Africa Meeting, on May 5-7. But an official with the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation told POLITICO it’s “unlikely” the former secretary of state will join her husband, Bill. He is still expected at the event, as is Moroccan King Mohammed VI.

The event is being funded largely by a contribution of at least $1 million from OCP, a phosphate exporter owned by Morocco’s constitutional monarchy, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the event.

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Hillary did not actually attend, but Bill Clinton did.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/clintons-morocco-117979

‘Hillary Clinton Sold Her Soul When They Accepted That Money’

The king of Morocco, the Clintons and a problem that just won’t go away.

By Kenneth P. Vogel
Politico
May 15, 2015

AAYOUNE, Western Sahara—A day after Bill Clinton feted donors and dignitaries at an extravagant Moroccan feast under a warm Marrakech night sky, a group of local Sahrawi Arabs gathered for tea in a far more humble setting here to share their outrage that Clinton’s family foundation had accepted millions of dollars from a company owned by a government accused of repressing their people.

The four men used to work as miners for a subsidiary of OCP, the state-owned phosphate company that paid more than $1 million to sponsor the lavish outdoor gala and the concurrent two-day meeting of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation headlined by the former U.S. president. Its purpose was to highlight efforts by the foundation , its donors and the Moroccan government to improve the lives of marginalized people in North Africa and the Middle East, and Bill Clinton opened the event by praising OCP, King Mohammed VI and “Morocco’s longstanding friendship to my family and to the United States.”

The former miners have seen a very different side of Morocco’s government and OCP. They say the company, formerly called the Office Chérifien des Phosphates, forced them to retire early and slashed their pensions, leaving them struggling to scrape by while hiring ethnic Moroccans for more senior jobs. The miners also told me how they had witnessed firsthand multiple examples of the “ arbitrary and prolonged detention” and “physical and verbal abuse” that the U.S. State Department says Moroccan authorities mete out to Sahrawis advocating for independence in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.

“Hillary Clinton sold her soul when they accepted that money,” declared Mohamed Lahwaimed, who gathered with the other former miners in a second floor walk-up in the Western Sahara capital of Laayoune, a modern-looking desert town with a population of 200,000 people about 500 miles southeast of Marrakech. Wearing traditional Sahrawi dara’a robes and lounging on worn pillows, they sipped green tea and spoke Arabic. “And now we are concerned that if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency of the United States of America, she will take the side of Moroccans even more,” Lahwaimed said through an interpreter.

Added fellow former miner Lahbib Salhi, “All the tainted money that Morocco has gathered from taking away our rights has been used to bribe the Clinton Foundation and the international community.”

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