On June 7, 2019, Anthony Dean Rodham alias Tony Rodham, brother of Hillary Clinton and brother-in-law of Bill Clinton mysteriously died at the age of 64, where Hillary Clinton announced the death two days later – on June 8 without mentioning the cause of death. Commenting on him, The Telegraph in an article said, “Tony Rodham, who has died aged 64, was the younger brother of Hillary Clinton, and a member of that not-so-select club of embarrassing political siblings.
“In the Clintons’ White House years, presidential aides were said to dread what “The Brothers Rodham” (Tony and his older brother Hugh) might get up to next. “You never wanted to hear their name come up in any context other than playing golf”, one former aide said”.
It further said:
Shortly before Clinton was sworn in as US president, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Rodham brothers had been soliciting corporate donations for their own inaugural ball. They dropped their efforts following a public outcry.
After the Clintons moved into the White House, Rodham worked as a field organizer for the Democratic National Committee and launched a consulting firm.
“I just bring different peoples together,” he said. “I help them negotiate deals. I solve problems for people”.
In 1997 he travelled to Cambodia to meet its new dictator, Hun Sen, suggesting that his visit might help the peace process and open up the nation to US business – alarming the State Department, concerned that the visit might be seen as an official endorsement.
In 1999 the Rodham brothers entered into a $118 million joint venture to grow and export hazelnuts with Aslan Abashidze, a strongman in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia and rival to President Eduard Shevardnadze, an American ally.
Abashidze told reporters that the American branch of the business would be located “next to the White House”, prompting Sandy Berger, Clinton’s National Security Adviser, to urge the brothers to abandon the enterprise. When they demurred, the White House felt compelled to register official disapproval of their actions.
In 2000 Tony successfully lobbied his brother-in-law to pardon a Tennessee couple convicted of bank fraud, over the objections of the Justice Department. He insisted he had taken up their cause pro bono, but the couple were later found to have paid him $244,769.
In 2007, as his sister geared up for her 2008 presidential campaign, Tony was back in the news for owing his ex-wife about $158,000 in unpaid alimony and child support payments.
In the 2010s, by which time Rodham was reported to be in dire financial straits, Bill Clinton helped get him a job with long-time Clinton associate Terry McAuliffe to find foreign investors for McAuliffe’s electric car company.
In 2015 a Department of Homeland Security watchdog reported concerns about Rodham and McAuliffe pushing a federal agency employee for visa approvals while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.
“There’s some wonderful things that have happened to me because of my relationship with Hillary and Bill,” Rodham said in 1999, “and there’s been some really terrible things”.
Tony Rodham, whose cause of death was undisclosed, is survived by his wife, their son and daughter, and a son from his first marriage.
On March 20, 2015, The Washington Post in a report titled ‘Role of Hillary Clinton’s brother in Haiti gold mine raises eyebrows’ said:
“… It also has become a potentially problematic issue for Hillary Rodham Clinton as she considers a second presidential run, after it was revealed this month that in 2013, one of her brothers was added to the advisory board of the company that owns the mine.
“Tony Rodham’s involvement with the mine, which has become a source of controversy in Haiti because of concern about potential environmental damage and the belief that the project will primarily benefit foreign investors, was first revealed in publicity about an upcoming book on the Clintons by author Peter Schweizer.
In interviews with The Washington Post, both Rodham and the chief executive of Delaware-based VCS Mining said they were introduced at a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative — an offshoot of the Clinton Foundation that critics have long alleged invites a blurring of its charitable mission with the business interests of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their corporate donors.
On May 10, 2015, The New York Times in a report titled ‘Tony Rodham’s Ties Invite Scrutiny for Hillary and Bill Clinton’ said:
The heavyset 60-year-old man who walked with a cane seemed an unlikely speaker at the glamorous launch party for a cosmetics company held in Santa Monica, Calif., in March.
But Tony Rodham appeared at ease among the special guests and well-heeled investors, offering them encouragement as well as an invitation.
“If there’s anything I can ever do for any of you, let me know”, Mr. Rodham said. “I’ll be more than happy to do it”.
A promotional video of the party that the cosmetics company later released identified the speaker as “the youngest brother of former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton,” a relationship that has been Mr. Rodham’s calling card since the days of the Clinton White House.
It further said:
… On and off for two decades, the affable Mr. Rodham has tried to use his connections with his sister and his brother-in-law, former President Bill Clinton, to further a business career that has seen more failures than successes. The connections to the Clintons have given Mr. Rodham, a self-described “facilitator,” a unique appeal and a range of opportunities, like addressing Chinese investor conferences and joining an advisory board of a company seeking permission to mine for gold in Haiti.
But his business dealings have often invited public scrutiny and uncomfortable questions for the Clintons as Mr. Rodham has cycled through a variety of ventures, leveraging his ties to them and sometimes directly seeking their help.
When Mr. Clinton worked as a co-chairman of Haiti’s earthquake recovery commission, Mr. Rodham and his partners sought a $22 million deal to rebuild homes in the country. In court proceedings three years ago in an unrelated lawsuit, Mr. Rodham explained how “a guy in Haiti” had “donated” 10,000 acres of land to him and described how he had leaned on Mr. Clinton to get the rebuilding project funded amid bureaucratic delays.
“I deal through the Clinton Foundation. That gets me in touch with the Haitian officials,” Mr. Rodham said, according to a transcript of his testimony. “I hound my brother-in-law, because it’s his fund that we’re going to get our money from. And he can’t do it until the Haitian government does it.
As Mrs. Clinton began her 2016 campaign for the presidency, Hugh Rodham and Roger Clinton had faded from public view, but Tony Rodham emerged as a controversial figure. A government investigation in March found that GreenTech, which sought green cards for its Chinese investors through an American government program, had received special treatment in the handling of its visa applications. The report described instances when Mr. McAuliffe and Mr. Rodham contacted an official from the Department of Homeland Security to complain about the pace of the visa process.
Mr. Rodham’s unsuccessful pursuit of housing contracts in Haiti, which has not previously been reported, raised new questions.
As Mrs. Clinton campaigns, she speaks fondly of her brothers. At a stop in Iowa, she recalled them working together at her father’s drapery business. Her official campaign biography prominently mentions them….
On May 11, 2015, The New York magazine in an article titled ‘The Clintons Managed to Avoid a Tony Rodham Scandal’ said:
Having a sibling who’s running for president can be tough, even if they aren’t dredging up your own foreign-policy blunders. The front page of Monday’s New York Times features a profile of Tony Rodham, Hillary Clinton’s youngest brother, and his mostly unsuccessful attempts to benefit from being overshadowed by his sister. The biggest revelation: When Bill Clinton was co-chairmen of Haiti’s earthquake recovery commission, Rodham tried to make a $22 million deal to rebuild homes there. In an unrelated lawsuit, Rodham claimed the former president was helping him get through the red tape, but nothing came of the project…
On May 11, 2015, The Beast in a report titled ‘Rodham asked for help with Haiti project’ said:
Hillary Clinton’s brother Tony Rodham allegedly asked Bill Clinton to help push through a $22 million deal to rebuild homes in Haiti while the former president served as co-chairman of the country’s earthquake recovery commission, The New York Times reported Sunday. Though the project never happened, Rodham said “a guy in Haiti” had “donated” 10,000 acres to him and he asked his brother-in-law to help break through the red tape to get the project funded, according to a transcript of his testimony from an unrelated lawsuit three years ago. The Clinton Foundation said it was not aware of Rodham’s Haiti project and it had not been directly involved with any housing projects in the country other than backing a housing exposition. The statement also noted that Rodham’s project was not among the more than 300 proposals submitted for consideration for the exposition…
On May 4, 2015, The Politico in a report said, “There’s no country that more clearly illustrates the confusing nexus of Hillary Clinton’s State Department and Bill Clinton’s foundation than Haiti—America’s poorest neighbor”.
On March 6, 2015, The Daily Mail in a report said, “Hillary Clinton’s brother landed lucrative gold-mining permit in Haiti after Bill Clinton helped country recover from earthquake devastation”.
On May 28, 2015, the National Review in a report said:
Sitting in a courtroom three years ago, after skipping out on a sizable legal bill, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s youngest brother struck a reassuring tone: Don’t worry, the money is coming.
“I deal through the Clinton Foundation,” Tony Rodham said, according to court transcripts uncovered by the New York Times. He gave his word that Hillary and Bill were setting him up with Haitian-government permits to build a $22 million housing development in the earthquake-stricken country.
“I hound my brother-in-law, because it’s his fund that we’re going to get our money from,” Rodham explained, promising a $1 million check once the Haitian-government paved the way, enough both to cover the outstanding legal fees and take his family to Disney World.
The construction deal fell through, but Rodham managed to settle his debt. And the next year, he got another crack at making money in Haiti’s heavily-regulated economy when he joined the advisory board of a company, VCS Mining, which was developing a gold mine on the island. He’d met the company’s CEO at a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. “I go to see old friends [at the meetings,]” Rodham told the Washington Post, “but you never know what can happen.” …
On April 24, 2015, Fox News in a report titled ‘Tangled Clinton Web: Firms tied to Clintons profited in post-quake Haiti’ said:
On Jan. 12, 2010, Haiti suffered a devastating earthquake. More than 200,000 died, and over 100,000 buildings and homes were destroyed.
Within four days, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived to survey the damage.
Clinton assured the Haitian people that, “the United States is a friend, partner, and a supporter.”
The government of Haiti set up the IHRC — the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission — to coordinate the nation’s recovery.
Former President Bill Clinton was named co-chair of that committee. He expressed hope that the island nation would be, “rebuilt in a much stronger, much sustainable way. I think the Haitians want that.”
But Peter Schweizer, author of the new book “Clinton Cash,” that investigates the tangle of money, politics and personal interest that has come to characterize the Clintons’ interactions around the world, says that: “What quickly became apparent to many people was that if you … wanted to do business in Haiti, you had to have relationships with a Clinton. That was absolutely key.” …
Here is more information about Hillary Clinton’s brother – Tony Rodham.
Tony Rodham attended Iowa Wesleyan College and the University of Arkansas, although he never received a degree from either school. He worked on future brother-in-law Bill Clinton’s 1974 nomination campaign for Congress. He then worked at a metal equipment company in Texas, sold insurance in Chicago, acted as a repossessor in Chicago, where shots were fired at him in the notorious Cabrini–Green housing project, and worked as a prison guard, a job that Bill Clinton helped him get. He moved to South Florida in 1983, where he shared a condominium with his brother Hugh Rodham, and worked as a process server and private detective until 1992.
In 1997, Rodham tried to arrange meetings between Paraguayan President Juan Carlos Wasmosy and Bill Clinton, and also powerful Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov and the president. In 1998, he paid a visit to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. In each of these cases, there was criticism that he was giving an unauthorized impression of White House approval to these foreign figures, or was seeking financial gain for himself.
These are just tip of the iceberg, as Bill and Hillary Clinton have been involved in numerous financial scandals, including the case of controversial Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus. Most importantly – no one talks about intimacy between Yunus and Hillary Clinton’s scandalous brother – Tony Rodham.
And now, when Hillary Clinton defends Yunus with the notorious agenda of salvaging him from legal actions and even is trying to use her global contacts in exerting pressure on Bangladesh government. It is well known to all, Muhammad Yunus is one of the top donors of Clinton Foundation. And for money, Clintons can go up to any length – moral or immoral.
