© Justin Sullivan, Drew Angerer / Getty Images Hillary Cling and campaign manager John Podesta
Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta sat on the board of a small energy company alongside Russian officials that received $35 million from a Putin-connected Russian government fund,
a relationship Podesta failed to fully disclose on his federal financial disclosures as required by law.That's one of the many revelations from a 56-page report released late Sunday titled
"From Russia with Money: Hillary Clinton, the Russian Reset, and Cronyism" by the non-partisan government watchdog group, the Government Accountability Institute (GAI). Breitbart Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon holds the same title in GAI and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer serves as GAI's president.
Both the
New York Post and the
Wall Street Journal ran stories on the newly released report late Sunday evening.
As part of her duties during the so-called Russian reset, then-Sec. of State Hillary Clinton led the way on U.S. involvement in a Russian government technology initiative that was intended to be the Russian equivalent of America's Silicon Valley known as Skolkovo. The "innovation city," located outside Moscow, has some 30,000 workers in state-of-the-art facilities under strict government control. As
Slate described it in 2013, "In some ways, Skolkovo is eerily reminiscent of Soviet utopian city-building projects."
According to the GAI report, Clinton's State Dept. recruited U.S. tech giants like Google, Cisco, Intel. Indeed, out of 28 U.S., European, and Russian companies that participated in Skolkovo, 17 of them were Clinton Foundation donors or paid for speeches by Bill Clinton.
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