Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton served as the 42nd President of the United States from January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001

Clinton signed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act on December 21, 2000, as a rider to an omnibus spending bill. The CFMA explicitly exempted over-the-counter derivatives including credit default swaps from CFTC oversight. The Act codified a legal framework that the Clinton …

correspondent — De Rothschild corresponded with Clinton directly via White House email in 1997 and 2000. She later became a major Hillary Clinton fundraiser and Clinton Foundation donor. The correspondence was released in the 2016 State Department FOIA production.

Clinton gave his first post-presidential paid speech on February 1, 2001 in Toronto for a fee of $125,000. By 2012 his per-speech rate had risen to approximately $500,000, paid by financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds, and foreign governments.

Clinton's administration strongly supported the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, which exempted credit-default swaps and over-the-counter derivatives from regulation

network_overlap — Reid Hoffman directly introduced Thiel to Epstein. Clinton's relationship with Epstein predates and contextualises the broader network of introductions Epstein facilitated between political and technology figures. Hoffman is a major Democratic donor whose polit…

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Clinton's fiscal year 2000 budget proposed and Congress passed the repeal of the Depression-era Public Utility Holding Company Act, which had restricted the cross-ownership of gas and electric utilities. This deregulation, combined with GLB and CFMA, created the conditions explo…

The Clinton Foundation received between $1 million and $5 million from the Saudi Arabian government, and between $1 million and $5 million each from Qatar and the UAE, according to foundation donor disclosures. These disclosures were made under a memorandum of understanding with…