{"id":181799,"date":"2016-03-14T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/14\/more-clinton-speeches-to-banksters\/"},"modified":"2016-03-14T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T00:43:00","slug":"more-clinton-speeches-to-banksters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/14\/more-clinton-speeches-to-banksters\/","title":{"rendered":"More Clinton Speeches to Banksters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Bank of America <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/politics-government\/article65692102.html\">paid over a million dollars to Bill and Hillary Clinton for speeches over the past few years<\/a>:<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Hillary Clinton\u2019s paid speeches to Goldman Sachs Group have drawn criticism on the campaign trail, but they\u2019re not the only talks she\u2019s given to big banks.<\/p>\n<p>Bank of America has also paid the Democratic presidential candidate and her husband more than $1 million combined to deliver talks to the Charlotte-based bank and its Merrill Lynch unit.<\/p>\n<p>The Clintons collected the combined figure from Bank of America over four appearances from 2011 to 2014, according to financial disclosures posted by the nonpartisan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/\">Center for Responsive Politics<\/a>. Former President Bill Clinton was the speaker on three of those occasions, once taking in $500,000 for a 2014 gathering in London.<\/p>\n<p>The large fees raise concerns about potential conflicts of interest and are likely to remain a hot topic on the campaign trail, said Eric Heberlig, a political science professor at UNC Charlotte. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaking fees like this, particularly from banks that have been bailed out by the taxpayers, it\u2019s certainly hard to argue to the public that you\u2019re not acting in a self-serving way,\u201d Heberlig said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My point is not that Hillary Clinton is bought and paid for by the banks.<\/p>\n<p>I do not think that she is.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I am suggesting that she, and Bill, are peas in a pod with the corrupt financial class (see Rubin, Robert), and the speaking fees are a reward for being a member of the tribe.<\/p>\n<p>This is not someone who is going to go after Wall Street any harder than Barack Obama, and as mind boggling as it sounds, the George W. Bush administration prosecuted more financial criminals than Obama has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of America paid over a million dollars to Bill and Hillary Clinton for speeches over the past few years: Hillary Clinton\u2019s paid speeches to Goldman Sachs Group have drawn criticism on the campaign trail, but they\u2019re not the only talks she\u2019s given to big banks. Bank of America has also paid the Democratic presidential &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-hillary-clinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}