Hillary Clinton may face the same charges that Sen. Menendez is now dealing with

Fox News:
Veteran defense lawyers see possible criminal inquiry for Clintons
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“If the facts suggest that there was a linkage between what Secretary Clinton did in her official capacity and the money that was coming into the Clinton Foundation,” Burns said, “this would fall under 18 U.S.C. 201 as a potential bribery violation.”

That statute provides that a bribe has occurred, among other circumstances, whenever “a public official directly or indirectly demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally for or because of any official act performed or to be performed by such official.”

C. Boyden Gray, who served as White House counsel to President George H.W. Bush, told Fox News the money that linked the uranium deal to the Clintons and their foundation “is very hard to dissect from the personal,” and creates, at a minimum, the appearance of a conflict of interest, particularly “when one of them is in office and money is coming in, in connection with issues over which that person in office has jurisdiction and responsibility.”

Gray added that Clinton is “not protected by the fact that her husband may have taken money … spouses’ interests are attributed to each other and that is no excuse or defense.”
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There has been a lot of focus on the uranium deal and the defense has been that others also had to sign off on it.  I am not sure that is enough if she could have killed the deal by saying no.  I suspect the President wanted this deal as part of his "reset" with Russia.   At a minimum the approval shows bad judgment by all involved.  It is the kind of bad judgment you would not want in a President.

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