Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal
The headline on the website Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin’s latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when its precursor served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”
The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.
But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who would like to be the next one.
Angelo Viard says he paid a $20,000 membership fee to join the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in order to take advantage of “marketing” opportunities, but he claims that his decision to appoint Hillary Clinton’s brother, Tony Rodham, to his Haiti gold mining company’s advisory board is a mere coincidence.
The relationship between Viard’s company, VCS Mining, and Rodham was revealed earlier this month. But The Washington Post added a new wrinkle to the business dealings on Friday when it published interviews with both men.
Viard appointed Rodham to VCS’s advisory board in October 2013, nine months after Hillary left her secretary of state gig.
After author Peter Schweizer revealed the relationship earlier this month, VCS denied that Rodham’s family ties had anything to do with his hiring.