Hillary Clinton: Chinagate (1996)

Clinton-Gore campaign in 1996 took bribes from Chinese banks and their government.

The Clinton-Gore campaign in 1996 allegedly took bribes from Chinese banks and their government (to help their dwindling poll numbers), and they sold seats on department trade missions to China, then "willfully impeded" the investigation according to the FBI Director and other agents who later testified before Congress.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2017-05-26

The Clinton-Gore campaign in 1996 allegedly took bribes from Chinese banks and their government (to help their dwindling poll numbers). The Chinese embassy siphon funds into the DNC with the help of Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown (died in a plane crash), and at Hillary’s instruction, reportedly sold seats on department trade missions to China. The Democrats and DOJ "willfully impeded" the investigation according to the FBI Director and other agents who later testified before Congress.

The Democrats counter-attacked on Republican campaign improprieties, and by the time this investigation was kicking in, the Lewinsky scandal heated up and distracted everyone, so the investigation was kind of dropped (or drowned out) and we never got the full story or investigation or outrage at the obstruction. Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman continued his investigation, even though the formal one was shut down:

Basically, tech companies that contributed to Clintons re-election got permission to sell high-tech secrets to China. Loral Space & Communication was allowed to help China with the cause of a rocket failure, thereby advancing China’s missile program (and threatening U.S. national security). If you or I did that, we'd be in prison for life.
There was a few other bad contributors as well. Jorge Cabrera (Chinese National) apparently made such a big donation to the Clinton’s campaign that he was invited to the White house without Secret Service present, and posed with the Clintons during this time.

In the end, since the Clintons were never fully prosecuted or excoriated by the Press/Public, this idea of selling foreign favors for money, was scaled up, converted into a charity and became the Clinton Foundation,.