Money
$1,000 into nearly $100,000
RECORD / AT A GLANCE
Profits documented / bribery unproven
The trades and the return are documented. Experts called it exceptional but possible in a rising market. Suspicion that winning trades were steered to her account is reasonable to raise but was never proved.
THE EVENTS / THE INVESTIGATION / THE STORY
1978–79
Hillary Clinton trades commodities on Jim Blair’s advice.
Mar 1994
The White House releases the trading records.
Apr 1994
The White House says about $6,000 more had not been reported and taxes will be paid.
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AP’s contemporaneous account of the disclosures, political connections and expert uncertainty; no bribery finding.
Contemporaneous journalism describing the White House’s disclosure of omitted income. A tax correction is different from proof of a deliberate tax crime.
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An unusual win, a missed tax line, and no proof of a bribe.
Hillary Clinton opened a commodities account with $1,000 in 1978 and took out nearly $100,000 within about a year. Her adviser was Jim Blair, a friend and a lawyer for Tyson Foods. Brokers quoted by AP called the return exceptional but possible. [1]
In April 1994 the White House said about $6,000 more income had not been reported and back taxes would be paid. [2]
AP’s contemporaneous account of the disclosures, political connections and expert uncertainty; no bribery finding.
Contemporaneous journalism describing the White House’s disclosure of omitted income. A tax correction is different from proof of a deliberate tax crime.
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