I had heard about the Russians acquiring a large chunk of U.S. uranium reserves through this display of crony capitalism, but I did not know that some of the numbers were so staggering:
Nine shareholders in Uranium One just happened to provide more than $145 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation in the run-up to State Department approval.One hundred and forty-five million dollars. It makes the Teapot Dome scandal looked like a mere purse-snatching.
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'just happened'
Seems a lot of things have 'just happened' in the Clinton Crime Family.
BTW, 145 million? How do they arrive at that number? Is there a price book for graft & corruption?
I think the Clinton Foundation would make Tammany Hall look like a Sunday School meeting.
The numbers are a bit worse than that. Uranium One controlled 20% of the US's uranium production, plus equivalent reserves. In 2012 or so, the US share of the world uranium production was just over 3% (Kazakstan, Australia, and Canada produce 90+% of the uranium).
So, to control less than 1% of the world's uranium, they shelled out $145M.
Cheers
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