WASHINGTON, D.C. — A review of FBI Director James
Comey’s professional history and relationships shows that the Obama cabinet
leader — now under fire for his handling of the investigation of Hillary
Clinton — is deeply entrenched in the big-money cronyism culture of Washington,
D.C.
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James Comey FBI Director
Direct Links To Clinton Foundation
The Brother of James Comey - Peter Comey Re-Designed the FBI Building
Peter Comey seems to be the linkage to the Clinton Foundation Money?
James Comey Past Employer Lockheed Martin - Clinton Foundation?
Who gave James Comey $6 Million Dollars in One Year?
Peter Comey DLA Piper’s senior director?
The international law firm that conducted the review of the Clinton Foundation’s inaccurate tax returns is a major donor to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, records show.
DLA Piper has donated $171,200 to Clinton so far in the 2016 election cycle, making it the fifth largest corporate donor to the Democrat’s campaign. DLA Piper employees also gave $700,530 to Clinton’s two Senate campaigns, records from the Center for Responsive Politics show. That’s in addition to $496,700 the firm’s employees gave Clinton during her 2008 White House bid.
The Clinton Foundation, which has received between $50,001 and $100,000 in donations from DLA Piper, tapped the firm to oversee the review of its tax returns for between 2010 and 2013 after the discovery of numerous inconsistencies.
“I advised the Foundation that it had no legal obligation to file amended returns,” Kathy Keneally, DLA Piper’s chair of tax litigation, said in a statement. “I also advised the Foundation, as I would advise any client, that if it decided to file amended returns, those amended returns should correct any and all errors.”
James Brien Comey, Jr. (52), former United States
Deputy Attorney General, has been appointed a Director of HSBC Holdings plc
with effect from 4 March 2013. He will be an independent non-executive Director
and a member of the Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee.
Jim Comey is a Senior Research Scholar and Hertog
Fellow on National Security Law at Columbia University Law School in New York.
From 2010 to 2013, he was General Counsel of Bridgewater Associates, LP and,
from 2005 to 2010, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Lockheed
Martin Corporation. From 2003 to 2005, he served as United States Deputy
Attorney General and was responsible for supervising the operations of the
Department of Justice and chaired the President’s Corporate Fraud Task Force. From
2002 to 2003, Mr. Comey was United States Attorney for the Southern District of
New York and supervised the prosecution of executives on fraud and securities
related charges and created a specialised unit to prosecute international drug
cartels.
Commenting on the appointment, HSBC Group Chairman
Douglas Flint said: “We are delighted to welcome Jim as a non-executive
Director and a member of our new Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee.
His experience and expertise gained from both public and private sector roles
at the highest level will add a further dimension to the governance
capabilities of the Board.”
Mr. Comey’s appointment will be for an initial
three-year term which, subject to re-election by shareholders, will expire at
the conclusion of the 2016 Annual General Meeting. The Directors have
determined that Mr. Comey is independent. In making that determination the
Directors concluded that there are no relationships or circumstances which are
likely to affect Mr. Comey’s judgement and any relationships or circumstances
which could appear to do so were not considered to be material.
For and on behalf of
HSBC Holdings plc
R G Barber
Group Company Secretary
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His personal and professional relationships — all undisclosed as he
announced the Bureau would not prosecute Clinton — reinforce bipartisan
concerns that he may have politicized the criminal probe.
These concerns focus on millions of dollars that
Comey accepted from a Clinton Foundation defense contractor, Comey’s former
membership on a Clinton Foundation corporate partner’s board, and his
surprising financial relationship with his brother Peter Comey, who works at
the law firm that does the Clinton Foundation’s taxes.
Lockheed Martin
When President Obama nominated Comey to become FBI
director in 2013, Comey promised the United States Senate that he would recuse
himself on all cases involving former employers.
But Comey earned $6 million in one year alone from
Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin became a Clinton Foundation donor that very
year.
Comey served as deputy attorney general under John
Ashcroft for two years of the Bush administration. When he left the Bush
administration, he went directly to Lockheed Martin and became vice president,
acting as a general counsel.
How much money did James Comey make from Lockheed
Martin in his last year with the company, which he left in 2010? More than $6
million in compensation.
Lockheed Martin is a Clinton Foundation donor. The
company admitted to becoming a Clinton Global Initiative member in 2010.
According to records, Lockheed Martin is also a
member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt, which paid Bill Clinton
$250,000 to deliver a speech in 2010.
In 2010, Lockheed Martin won 17 approvals for
private contracts from the Hillary Clinton State Department.
HSBC Holdings
In 2013, Comey became a board member, a director,
and a Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee member of the London bank HSBC
Holdings.
“Mr. Comey’s appointment will be for an initial
three-year term which, subject to re-election by shareholders, will expire at
the conclusion of the 2016 Annual General Meeting,” according to HSBC company
records.
HSBC Holdings and its various philanthropic
branches routinely partner with the Clinton Foundation. For instance, HSBC
Holdings has partnered with Deutsche Bank through the Clinton Foundation to
“retrofit 1,500 to 2,500 housing units, primarily in the low- to
moderate-income sector” in “New York City.”
“Retrofitting” refers to a Green initiative to
conserve energy in commercial housing units. Clinton Foundation records show
that the Foundation projected “$1 billion in financing” for this Green
initiative to conserve people’s energy in low-income housing units.
Who Is Peter Comey?
When our source called the Chinatown offices of
D.C. law firm DLA Piper and asked for “Peter Comey,” a receptionist immediately
put him through to Comey’s direct line. But Peter Comey is not featured on the
DLA Piper website.
Peter Comey serves as “Senior Director of Real
Estate Operations for the Americas” for DLA Piper. James Comey was not
questioned about his relationship with Peter Comey in his confirmation hearing.
DLA Piper is the firm that performed the independent
audit of the Clinton Foundation in November during Clinton-World’s first big
push to put the email scandal behind them. DLA Piper’s employees taken as a
whole represent a major Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign donation bloc and Clinton
Foundation donation base.
DLA Piper ranks #5 on Hillary Clinton’s all-time
career Top Contributors list, just ahead of Goldman Sachs.
And here is another thing: Peter Comey has a
mortgage on his house that is owned by his brother James Comey, the FBI
director.
Peter Comey’s financial records, obtained by
Breitbart News, show that he bought a $950,000 house in Vienna, Virginia, in
June 2008. He needed a $712,500 mortgage from First Savings Mortgage
Corporation.
But on January 31, 2011, James Comey and his wife
stepped in to become Private Party lenders. They granted a mortgage on the
house for $711,000. Financial records suggest that Peter Comey took out two
such mortgages from his brother that day.
This financial relationship between the Comey
brothers began prior to James Comey’s nomination to become director of the FBI.
DLA Piper did not answer Breitbart News’ question
as to whether James Comey and Peter Comey spoke at any point about this
mortgage or anything else during the Clinton email investigation.
Peter Comey Re-Designed the FBI Building
FBI Director James Comey grew up in the New Jersey
suburbs with his brother Peter. Both Comeys were briefly taken captive in 1977
by the “Ramsey rapist,” but the boys managed to escape through a window in
their home, and neither boy was harmed.
James Comey became a prosecutor who worked on the
Gambino crime family case. He went on to the Bush administration, a handful of
private sector jobs, and then the Obama administration in 2013.
Peter Comey, meanwhile, went into construction.
After getting an MBA in real estate and urban
development from George Washington University in 1998, Peter Comey became an
executive at a company that re-designed George Washington University between
2004 and 2007 while his brother was in town working for the Bush
administration.
In January 2009, at the beginning of the Obama
administration, Peter Comey became “a real estate and construction consultant”
for Procon Consulting.
Procon Consulting’s client list includes “FBI
Headquarters Washington, DC.”
So what did Procon Consulting do for FBI
Headquarters? Quite a bit, apparently. According to the firm’s records:
Procon provided strategic project management for
the consolidation of over 11,000 FBI personnel into one, high security, facility.
Since 1972 the Federal Bureau of Investigation has
had its headquarters in a purpose built 2.1 million square foot building on
Pennsylvania Avenue. Having become functionally obsolete and in need of major
repairs, GSA and the FBI were considering ways to meet the space needs required
to maintain the Bureau’s mission and consolidate over 11,000 personnel.
Procon assisted GSA in assessing the FBI’s space
needs and options for fulfilling those needs. Services provided included
project management related to site evaluations, budgeting, due diligence, and
the development of procurement and funding strategies.
Those “funding strategies” included talking to
“stakeholders”: “Worked with stakeholders and key leadership to identify
strategic objectives, goals and long range plans for capital and real estate
projects.”
Procon Consulting obtained its contract for FBI
Headquarters prior to James Comey’s nomination to serve as director of the FBI.
In June 2011, Peter Comey left Procon Consulting to
become “Senior Director of Real Estate Operations for the Americas” for DLA
Piper.
Peter Comey has generated some controversy in that
role. According to Law360 in May 2013 (the same month that James Comey was
confirmed as someone being considered by Obama to become FBI director):
Two real estate services businesses filed a $10
million suit against the law firm Monday alleging it stiffed them on as much as
$760,000 of work done at DLA Piper’s Chicago office and improperly gave
proprietary information to a competitor.
….
The plaintiffs take particular aim at Peter Comey,
DLA Piper’s senior director of real estate operations. Leasecorp and SpaceLogik
include several emails in the complaint that are purportedly from DLA Piper
senior real estate partners Jay Epstein and Rich Klawiter and are sharply
critical of Comey’s handling of the matter. In one email, Epstein wrote that
“it’s an embarrassment for the firm to be treating someone who we are working
with like this.”
In another email allegedly from Klawiter on Feb.
20, the DLA Piper partner informed Leasecorp President Michael Walker, a principal
for both plaintiffs, that Comey had sent him and Epstein an email claiming that
the real estate services firms were behind on their contractual obligations.
“I just received an email from Peter (Jay was also
a recipient) that is so inflammatory I can’t even send it or you’ll hit the
roof,” Klawiter said in the email, according to the complaint. “This is not
going to end well.”
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