Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5 Num. 18




              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5  Num. 18
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")


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WHAT DID HILLARY TRADE AND WHEN DID SHE DO IT?
[*Washington Times*, National Weekly Edition, 4/24-30/95, excerpts]

...new analytical details about Mrs. Clinton's trading have 
surfaced. Although these details are devastating in content, the 
media have ignored them...

[A Feb. 20, 1995 article, originally appearing in the *National 
Review*, and] co-written by Dow Jones financial columnist 
Caroline Baum and commodities speculator Victor Niederhoffer... 
developed a "checklist of fraud indicators that would apply to a 
broad range of financial trickery," including commodities-trading 
fraud. The authors then "rated the likely legitimacy of Mrs. 
Clinton's activities on a scale ranging from 1 (highly likely) to 
10 (highly unlikely) for each of 10 criteria. Among their 
questions and answers:

** Were the returns excessive as measured against a normal 
yardstick of performance? -- "Mrs. Clinton's annual return was 
more than 80 times George Soros's in his best year."

** Was there an effort to suppress investigation of the 
transaction? -- Mrs. Clinton adamantly opposed the appointment of 
a special prosecutor to probe her and her husband's financial 
dealings.

** Are crucial records of the transactions missing? -- The 
purchase and sale confirmations for her two most profitable 
trades are missing.

** Did the suspect alter her story regarding the activity in 
question? -- Who could forget Mrs. Clinton's first version, in 
which she claimed that she did all of her own research in the 
*Wall Street Journal* and placed all of her own trades?

** Were a good portion of the transactions executed near the most 
favorable prices of the day? -- The odds of a retail trader 
executing the intraday transactions that generated a 530 percent 
overnight return, which Mrs. Clinton achieved on her first day, 
"are about the same as those of finding the Dead Sea Scrolls on 
the steps of the State House in Little Rock."

** Was there anything unusual about the suspect's behavior or 
anything irregular about the activity in question? -- "Mrs. 
Clinton, a neophyte investor with nearly no savings, traded the 
biggest bull market in the history of cattle primarily from the 
short side," meaning she usually bet against price rises. Bucking 
history's greatest bull market in cattle futures, she still 
generated a spectacular 10,000 percent one-year return on her 
initial investment.

** Was the risk in the trading program inconsistent with the 
customer's net income and net worth? -- [The Clinton's] financial 
wherewithal was "considerably lower than the minimums set by most 
brokerage houses for opening a commodities-trading account." 
[Also,] a 2 percent to 5 percent move in the wrong direction 
would have wiped out both their 1978 income and their net worth, 
causing personal bankruptcy and destroying their political 
careers.

** Was the suspect in a position to do a favor for any of the 
other parties involved? -- [With Clinton having his gubernatorial 
re-election almost inevitable, we have Mr. Blair, outside counsel 
to Tyson Foods Inc., helping Hillary accumulate a $99,541 profit 
in 10 months.]

** Was there a history of illegal, irregular or unethical 
behavior on the part of the broker? -- Red Bone, Mrs. Clinton's 
broker and a former executive at Tyson [Foods Inc.], previously 
had been suspended from trading for a year for trying to corner 
the egg-futures market...


[Mrs. Clinton scores] 98 out of 100...

"After extensive research, we have satisfied ourselves that Mrs. 
Clinton was neither naive nor lucky nor particularly talented as 
a trader."

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