Congressional Record

Posted on: October 15, 2024 at 20:48:15 CT

But we heard over and over, gee, FBI
Director Comey would never do any-
thing but absolutely perfectly above-
board.
But then this article by Patrick
Howley, 10 September, came out. I was
shocked. It said: ‘‘A review of FBI Di-
rector James Comey’s professional his-
tory 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. His personal and pro-
fessional 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 Clin-
ton Foundation corporate partner’s
board’’—I had no idea—‘‘and his sur-
prising financial relationship with his
brother Peter Comey, who works at the
law firm that does the Clinton Founda-
tion taxes.’’
Who knew? Wow. Direct ties here
with FBI Director James Comey’s fam-
ily and the Clinton Foundation. It is
just amazing. I don’t hold anybody’s
former employer against them. Fine,
you are employed hopefully by some-
body, so I wouldn’t hold that against
them. Certainly, Hank—I don’t even
want to say his name, but he used to be
the Secretary of the Treasury, and—
well, yeah, he deserves to be in the
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD yet again.
Hank Paulson, the former chairman of
Goldman Sachs, he certainly did every
favor he possibly could to Goldman
Sachs, and they are still going on.
But here are some holdings, HSBC
Holdings the article mentioned. ‘‘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 ini-
tial 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 phil-
anthropic branches routinely partner
with the Clinton Foundation. For in-
stance, HSBC Holdings has partnered
with Deutsche Bank through the Clin-
ton Foundation to ‘retrofit 1,500 to
2,500 housing units, primarily in the
low- to moderate-income sector’ in
‘New York City.’’’
Anyway, it goes on to talk about
Peter Comey.
‘‘When our source called the China-
town 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 Di-
rector of Real Estate Operations for
the Americas’ for DLA Piper.
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‘‘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 Clin-
ton-World’s first big push to put the
email scandal behind them. DLA Pip-
er’s employees taken as a whole rep-
resent a major Hillary Clinton 2016
campaign donation bloc and Clinton
Foundation donation base.
‘‘DLA Piper ranks number 5 on Hil-
lary Clinton’s all-time career Top Con-
tributors 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 showed that he ‘‘bought
a $950,000 house in Vienna, Virginia, in
June 2008. He needed a $712,500 mort-
gage from First Savings Mortgage Cor-
poration.
‘‘But on January 31, 2011, James
Comey and his wife stepped in to be-
come Private Party lenders. They
granted a mortgage on the house for
$711,000.’’
Anyway, it is just rather interesting:
Who had any idea that the Comey fam-
ily had such ties to the Clinton Foun-
dation?