The last time tragedy struct the tiny Caribbean country, Bill and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — according to
scores of enraged Haitians — used their billion dollar charity and leveraged their global connections to enrich themselves and their monied cronies.
Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010 — while
316,000 lifeless bodies lay buried under rubble, and while
300,000 Haitians suffered from injuries, with another
1.3 million displaced — the Clintons saw an opportunity to cash in.
Hillary Clinton’s brother,
Tony Rodham, landed a lucrative and historically rare Haitian “gold exploitation permit,” while Clinton Foundation donors,
including Digicel mobile phone company founder Denis O’Brien, were winning multi-million dollar contracts that would siphon massive profits from the
poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
While then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s State Department was funneling billions in relief funds to rebuild Haiti, the Clinton Foundation was leveraging its influence to guide high-dollar contracts to longtime Clinton cronies who would go on to reap millions off the catastrophe that had claimed so many lives on the devastated island.
“I deal through the Clinton Foundation,” Tony Rodham said according to a
transcript of his testimony during court proceedings, obtained by The New York Times. “That gets me in touch with the Haitian officials. I hound my brother-in-law [Bill Clinton], because it’s his fund that we’re going to get our money from. And he can’t do it until the Haitian government does it.”
The anger at the Clintons from the Haitian people is no secret.
Indeed, dozens of Haitian protesters gathered outside the Democrat National Convention in July and railed against the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation for their
long-reported history of using their global connections to exploit the resources and the poor people of Haiti.
“The main message is that Hillary Clinton belongs in jail,” one
protester said at the time when asked what the overall message of the protest was. “We believe that the world should know about the crimes the Clinton family has committed against the country of Haiti–the money they have stolen from the earthquake victims. And we believe that were this to be anyone else, they’d be in jail right now.”
