The Clintons' $93 Million Romance With Wall Street

[Ferd Berfel]

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/clintons-93-million-romance-wall-street


A catastrophe for working families, African-Americans, and latinos.

For 24 years Bill and Hillary Clinton have courted Wall Street money with notable success. During that time the New York banks contributed:

$11.17 million to Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1992.
$28.37 million for his re-election in 1996.
$2.13 million to Hillary Clinton's senatorial campaign in 2002.
$6.02 million for her re-election in 2006.
$14.61 million to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2008.
$21.42 million to her 2016 campaign.

The total here is $83.72 million for the six campaigns,i ii disbursed from 11 banks: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, UBS, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo, Barclay's, JP Morgan Chase, CIBC, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and Morgan Stanley.iii iv

Then there were the speeches.

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Hillary Clinton unveiled her big plan to curb the worst of Wall Street's excesses. The reaction from the banking community was a shrug.xi There is good reason for the banks' sanguine view.

[Nye Bevan]

1. I'm confused as it has long been illegal for corporations to contribute to campaigns

of candidates running for federal offices. Perhaps you meant employees of banks as opposed to simply "banks"?

[Jarqui]

2. Since they left the White House, the Clintons have collected about $4 billion

mostly from big business/Wall Street/the 1%:
- Clinton Foundation
- Hillary's campaigns
- Clinton Library
- speaking fees

[KamaAina]

3. a) This goes in GD-Primaries. b) It's already there.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511495891