Membership has its privileges.
A Bangladesh government commission was investigating multiple charges of financial mismanagement at Grameen Bank, beginning in May 2012. Muhammad Yunus, a major Clinton Foundation donor, served as managing director of the bank.
Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and permanent U.S. resident, recalled the account of the threatened IRS audit to TheDCNF. The allegations mark the first known instance in the U.S. that Clinton’s Department of State used IRS power to intimidate a close relative of a friendly nation’s head of state on behalf of a Clinton Foundation donor.
Wazed told TheDCNF it was “astounding and mind boggling” that senior State Department officials between 2010 and 2012 repeatedly pressured him to influence his mother to drop the commission investigation.
No names are listed, but key senior officials were Hillary associates. Some even did double duty. So it's not very surprising that they put protecting Clintonworld first.
“They threatened me with the possibility of an audit by the Internal Revenue Service,” he said. “I have been here legally for 17 years and never had a problem. But they said, ‘well, you know, you might get audited.'”
“They would say over and over again, ‘Yunus has powerful friends’ and we all knew they were talking of Secretary Clinton. Everybody knew it was Mrs. Clinton,” Wazed told TheDCNF.
Now Muhammad Yunus is a huge figure in NGO world because of microfinance. He's also been rather close to the Clintons. Is there some independent confirmation? Partially.
Clinton met with Yunus three times as secretary of state while the Bangladesh government investigation was underway, according to an August 2016 Associated Press report on Clinton Foundation donors.
Throughout the Bangladesh government’s investigation, “He (Yunus) pleaded for help in messages routed to Clinton, and she ordered aides to find ways to assist him,” AP reported.
Looks like they got really creative at finding a way.
Now Americans are not going to care too much about a bank loan to Bangladesh. But if Clinton people could casually threaten an IRS audit here, they believed they had the capability to do so. And that raises the question of how often they might have made use of such a power at home. Which takes us right back to the targeting question, whether it's Z Street or conservatives in general.
This is an explosive question and it still remains open.