{"id":30805,"date":"2017-05-13T20:35:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T00:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30805"},"modified":"2017-05-13T20:35:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T00:35:57","slug":"the-connections-are-mind-boggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30805","title":{"rendered":"The Connections Are Mind-Boggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2017\/05\/report-comeys-brother-works-law-firm-handles-clinton-foundations-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a> posted an article with some of former <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Director_of_the_Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener noreferrer\">FBI Director<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"James Comey\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Comey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener noreferrer\">James Comey<\/a>&#8216;s employment history.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Comey served as general counsel at <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Lockheed Martin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lockheedmartin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">Lockheed Martin<\/a> until 2010 when he departed with over $6 million to show for it. That same year Lockheed Martin became a member of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Clinton Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clintonfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">Clinton Global Initiative<\/a> and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187\">won 17 contracts<\/a> from the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Department of State\" href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">U.S. State Department<\/a>, which was led by then-<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hillary Clinton\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hillary_Clinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener noreferrer\">Secretary of State Hillary Clinton<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/bigleaguepolitics.com\/james-comeys-brother-works-law-firm-clinton-foundations-taxes\/\">Big League Politics reports<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Comey just so happened to have joined the board of the British bank HSBC Holdings in 2013, which just so happens to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clintonfoundation.org\/search\/node\/HSBC\">Clinton Foundation partner<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Director Comey&#8217;s brother works for the Washington law firm <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"DLA Piper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dlapiper.com\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">DLA Piper<\/a>, where he serves as \u201cSenior Director of Real Estate Operations for the Americas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The article further reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>DLA Piper is one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/politicians\/contrib.php?cid=N00000019&amp;cycle=Career\">top ten all-time career campaign donors<\/a> for Hillary Clinton. On top of this, DLA Piper also happens to do the Clinton Foundation\u2019s taxes. DLA Piper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/clinton-foundation-tax-forms-reveal-millions-in-unreported-donations\/article\/2576527\">performed the 2015 audit<\/a> of the Foundation when the scandal first broke.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article also notes that former Director Comey owns his brother&#8217;s mortgage&#8211;meaning that former Director Comey had a direct financial relationship with a DLA Piper executive during his investigation of Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>This is crony capitalism at its worst. President Trump needs to drain the swamp as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Gateway Pundit posted an article with some of former FBI Director James Comey&#8216;s employment history. The article reports: Comey served as general counsel at Lockheed Martin until 2010 when he departed with over $6 million to show for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30805\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6325,3357,4334,285,1178],"class_list":["post-30805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clinton-foundation","tag-donald-trump","tag-lockheed-martin","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-department-of-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30806,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30805\/revisions\/30806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}