Clintons: $109M In Income Since 2000

Newly Released Tax Information Shows Couple Paid More Than $33 Million In Taxes Over Eight Years

(CBS/AP)  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Clinton report nearly $109.2 million in income since the end of Mr. Clinton's term in 2000, according to eight years of newly-released tax information. The couple reported $20.4 million in income for 2007.

The Democratic presidential candidate and her husband paid $33.8 million in taxes from 2000 through 2007. Almost half the former first couple's money came from Mr. Clinton's speeches. They listed $10.25 million in charitable contributions during the period.

The couple released their tax returns for the years 2000 through 2006 and provided information regarding their 2007 taxes. The Clintons have asked for an extension for filing their 2007 tax returns, citing the dissolution of a blind trust last year.

Mrs. Clinton has been under pressure to release her tax returns, especially from rival Barack Obama, who posted his 2000 to 2006 returns on his campaign Web site last week. Neither Obama nor Republican Sen. John McCain have made their 2007 tax returns public, though both say they will this month.

"The Clintons have now made public 30 years of tax returns, a record matched by few people in public service," said Clinton Campaign Spokesman Jay Carson. "None of Hillary Clinton's presidential opponents have revealed anything close to this amount of personal financial information."

CBS News Correspondent Jim Axelrod reports that Mrs. Clinton's hopes for the Democratic nomination now rest heavily on winning over blue-collar workers, many of whom are worried about their own incomes.

The Clintons last made their returns public in 2000, when they reported an adjusted gross income of $416,039.

According to a summary of the seven years provided by the campaign, the former president's speech income since he left the White House totals $51.85 million and his income from his two books - "My Life " and "Giving" - totals $29.6 million. Mr. Clinton has traveled the world, giving paid speeches to multinational corporations, investment banks and motivational groups.

Mrs. Clinton had $10.5 million in book income over the period from her book "Living History." She donated earnings from her other book, "It Takes a Village," to charity.

Mrs. Clinton's tax returns show that of the remaining presidential candidates, she is the one most able to access large amounts of personal money. She lent her campaign $5 million in late February and could contribute more if she finds herself falling far behind Obama's proficient fundraising.

McCain's wife is heiress to her father's stake in Hensley & Co. of Phoenix, one of the largest beer distributorships in the country and her worth could exceed $100 million. But the couple has a prenuptial agreement that has kept most assets in her name. In his financial disclosures, McCain lists his major sources of income as his Senate salary of $169,300 and a Navy pension of about $56,000.

In 2006, Obama reported income of nearly $1 million, with nearly half of it coming from the publication of his second book, "The Audacity of Hope." Last week, the campaign disclosed that Obama and his wife, Michelle, gave $240,000 to charity last year.

Detailed Clinton tax data can be found here.

[obama8years]

OBAMA HAS LINKS TO HAMAS AND ISM

If Barack Obama didn%u2019t know about Abunimah%u2019s writings (and Abunimah says he did), the same as his claims of being unaware of Reverend Wright%u2019s remarks after 20 years, then Obama is not competent to be our President. Abunimah likes to lie and claim Al Awda has nothing to do with the ISM or Electronic Intifada, though plenty of evidence exists on the website the homepage at www.StoptheISM.com showing the contrary.

But Obama%u2019s association with the ISM through his church and lobbying in Chicago goes even deeper than just his past links to Al Awda and Ali Abunimah. His pastor, Jeremiah Wright, and the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, are both equally involved with the ISM.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2462

[leighg1]

This is from 4/7/08 Wall Street Journal:

"Meanwhile, the Clintons also made liberal use of the charitable deduction, claiming $10.2 million in charitable giving over the eight years. Intriguingly, nearly all the donations went to the Clinton Family Foundation, which has disbursed only half the money. The Clintons can thus use the foundation for, er, strategic giving, such as the $100,000 it donated last year to a local South Carolina library %u2013 the day after Mrs. Clinton debated in that key primary state. There are other examples of such politically targeted philanthropy, and it''s worth noting that most of the foundation''s disbursements came only after Mrs. Clinton announced her Presidential run."

[blackspirit3]

Hillary Clinton became the first first lady to testify before a grand jury when she was subpeonaed by the Whitewater grand jury.
%u2022 Took a $100,000 bribe, camouflaged as futures trades, from Tyson Foods Inc. At issue was a $100,000 windfall from cattle futures after a $1,000 investment.
%u2022 Speculated in Health Care industry futures while overseeing legislative reform of same.
%u2022 Failed to correct false testimony by co-defendant Ira Magaziner in Health Care trial.
%u2022 Ordered members of the Health Care Task Force to shred documents that were the target of a court probe.
%u2022 Obstructed justice by ordering the shredding of Vince Foster''s documents in the Rose Law Firm.
%u2022 In 1996, Hillary was accused by the Senate Special Whitewater Committee of ordering the removal of potentially damaging files related to Whitewater from Foster''s office on the night of his death and telling aides to lie about their removal.
. Obstructed justice by keeping her billing records, a document sought under subpoena, in the White House residence.
%u2022 Lied to investigators about her knowledge about billing records.
%u2022 Lied to investigators about her involvement in the Castle Grande land flip con.
%u2022 Ordered the use of the FBI to discredit Travel Office employees.
%u2022 Lied to investigators about her involvement in the firing of Travel Office Employees.

[blackspirit3]

IN 1992 THE CLINTONS WENT TO THE WHITE HOUSE TO FIX THINGS

- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court

IN 2008 LETS SEND THEM BACK TO FINISH THEIR JOB

[aldon61]

Trapbreak: There have been 5 Democrats since WWII, Truman was sitting when the war was declared over,& WAS re-elected, Kennedy won in 1960, his VP Johnson took over and WAS also re-elected, Carter, Then Clinton who WAS ALSO re-elected. I do agree that the ones you named were awful choices and deserved to be defeated (Stevenson, Humphry, McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis & Kerry. By the way, Kerry did not get slaughtered like the others, he came within 1 state (Ohio) of getting 270 electoral votes. Just wanted to get facts straight.

[mjvw2]

Clinton''''''''s campaign manager, Maggie Williams, earned at least $175,000 serving from 2000-07 on the board of Long Island-based Delta Financial, which filed for bankruptcy last year after a history of high-cost loans to low-income borrowers, according to public records.

Obama''''''''s national finance chairwoman, Penny Pritzker, was chairwoman of the board of a Chicago-area bank in 1993 when it adopted a subprime business strategy that regulators say ultimately led it to collapse in 2001.

From that right wing paper USA Today. Oh those evil neo cons.

[jesterbelle]

By the rich,of the rich,and for the rich.Hillary and McCain,your no change,status quo,same ol'',same ol'' candidates.

[dinkydog1]

The Clintons are criminals and the most corrupt politicians in the history of our country. I can''''t understand why people blindly follow them, but a change in government may see them finally prosecuted for their crimes. That may explain why Hillary is so desperate to be elected. Their staying out of prison may depend on it.

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Isn''t this criminal stuff a bit tired? The rupubs tried to convict the Clintons of every thing under the sun and only suceeded in wasting millions. Bill Clinton led this country to it''s most prosperious time in history. The Shrub has made us a debtor, belacose nation dispised around the world. Are they bind followers or are some just blind?

[jgunther7]

As a young lad, I will never forget President Eisenhower''s Farwell speech and the only point I can remember from that speech was: %u201CThe biggest danger to the U.S. is the military industrial complex.%u201D I was somewhat confused at the time because in the midst of the cold war, I understood the Russians were our biggest threat. His words have always come back to me and sure enough, it is the military industrial complex that is destroying our nation.

The Clintons are criminals and the most corrupt politicians in the history of our country. I can''t understand why people blindly follow them, but a change in government may see them finally prosecuted for their crimes. That may explain why Hillary is so desperate to be elected. Their staying out of prison may depend on it.

Obama on the other hand seems to be that new ray of hope that can get us out of this mess. I had lost all interest and hope in politics and stopped voting, but he is saying all the right things. I am as excited now as I was about John Kennedy. I never thought I would be in support of a minority person for fear they would only take care of their own, but Obama seems to transcend all the traditional boundaries and is stronger for it. If this man only delivers a fraction of what we hope and expect of him, we will all be miles ahead of where we are now. Today we are in debt, in recession, at war, and universally despised around the world. Obama at least presents the promise of improving our situation. Obama 08

[jgunther7]

truth-hurts: I don''t really understand your challenge, but I do agree that business control of the government has been detrimental to the United States for the last twenty years. I''ll try and explain in more detail: