Quick facts:

- Bill Clinton established the Clinton Global Initiative with Jeffrey Epstein (as Epstein’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz said in court).

- Bill Clinton shared the stage with Sam Bankman-Fried at a Bitcoin conference in the Bahamas.

From left to right: Con Artist

It turns out that the charity is just to funnel massive investments into their criminal networks, but you don’t need to know that part yet; you just need to know that virtually everybody who spoke at this president’s conference last year is rolling in cryptocurrency.

They had over 200 participants at their conference last September, many of them are world leaders in business, government, bands that stopped being good 30 years ago, and philanthropy. I only went through the first 40 of them, but here are some of their crypto connections.

1. New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he would make the city the “center of the cryptocurrency industry,” and vowed to take his first three city paychecks in Bitcoin.

2. The African Development Bank invests global public and private capital in African member states. They offered an intensive four day cryptocurrency workshop on cryptocurrency and money laundering. They also moderated a panel where “Experts call for African cryptocurrency,” according to their press release.

3. Before joining venture capital firm Vistria, Margaret Anadu worked at Goldman Sachs for 18 years. As partner, she led $10 billion of investment through Goldman’s One Million Black Women initative. This includes organizations like Steph Curry’s Eat.Learn.Play Foundation, a non-profit that partnered closely with FTX and sold NFTs.

4. Solidarid is a global supply-chain organization that helped found the Fairtrade movement. Last year, they developed ann app that allows farmers to sell their products on the blockchain.

5. weConnect provides regulatory compliance support for global businesses. This includes services like “Setting up a Singapore Company in the Crypto and Blockchain Industry,” and how to get around regulations to set up a crypto exchange in Japan.

1. Moderna is a pharmaceutical company best known for creating a COVID vaccine. In March 2021, they announced a blockchain pilot project for vaccine tracing. Months later, their stock had a sudden increase in trading volume, increasing 400% before falling back to previous levels six months later.

They appear to be one of many companies that used the “COVID boom” as cover for moving their fraudulent crypto Ponzi scheme winnings in and out, as discussed in The Ponzi Papers: PayPal does a Ponzi.

2) The Santo Domingo Foundation is named after the second richest man in Columbia. A theater with his name on it is hosting this year’s World Business Forum, with topics such as “Blockchain and the Digital Future.”

3) The King Abdullah II School of Information Technology at the University of Jordan is named after Queen Rania’s husband. They write papers like “Blockchain for Banking Systems: Opportunities and Challenges” and hosted a cryptocurrency lecture by Binance Academy earlier this month.

4) The Millennium Challenge Corporation is a U.S. foreign aid agency providing grants to countries based on their economic policies. One such policy is a blockchain-based tracking of agricultural products. One former director now runs a blockchain services firm, while another contributed to a report called “Enabling Blockchain Innovation in the U.S. Federal Government.”

5) Agility Logistics, a Kuwaiti supply chain conglomerate, became the first freight forwarder to use blockchain to track container shipments and writes blog posts such as “Why Your Supply Chain Needs Blockchain. Chairperson Henadi Al-Saleh spoke on a panel at Davos 2021 about how new technologies like blockchain can drive public-private partnerships.

1. Provided “effective aftruism”-sized donations alongside Florida International University, which began accepting cryptocurrency donations last year.

2. The Organization of American States is a Washington, D.C. based organization heavily involved in South and Central American elections. They intervened in the Haiti 2010 presidential election and tried to plant Juan Guaidó as Venezuelan president in 2019, for instance. The OAS is studying international criminal money laundering around cryptocurrency, but a 2021 progress report suggests it is a rare occurrence

3. World Central Kitchen is a U.S. non-governmental organization that provides food assistance in the wake of disasters. Founder José Andrés was the second recipient of Jeff Bezos’ $100 million Courage and Civility Award.

In 2021, they partnered with The Giving Block to accept donations in cryptocurrencies such as Polkadot, Axie Infinity Shards, and ELON. Later that year, they received donations from Quiznos’ sandwich chain’s 3D space-themed NFT raffle. *Launched its first cryptocurrency donation campaign in 2021.

4) Hispanics in Philanthropy describes themselves as “an impact catalyst reshaping the Latinx future.” Earlier this month, they sponsored a “Shark Tank style event” called El Paso Pitch, where they showcase NFT and artificial intelligence startups.

They were featured on a non-profit fundraising blog before the author decided to “refocus on just these timely topics: cryptocurrencies, Blockchain and crowdfunding.”

5) New American Funding is a mortgage provider, recently announcing their exclusive partnership with hyper-local news platform Patch. The company laid off 1,000 workers last year. Last month, co-founder Patty Arvielo and her husband gave Costa Mesa’s Vanguard University the largest donation in school history.

1. Welcome.US is a non-profit formed in 2021 to provide support for Afghan refugees, working with assistance from four former U.S. presidents and first ladies. Their senior director won the Social Innovation Blockchain Hackathon for developing a framework for “the use of blockchain technology in securing housing rights in post-conflict Iraq.”

2. BlocPower is a “climate technology company that analyzes, finances and upgrades homes and 1buildings.” They’ve received funding from crypto tech VC Andreessen Horowowitz, along with criminal co-conspirators Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs, and Elon Musk’s brother Kimbel.

3. As Governor of Massachusetts, Charlie Baker signed a bill that included $45 million in grants for “artificial intelligence, robotics, fintech, quantum computing, blockchain, and blue tech.” In 2019, Baker spoke at the Better Government Competition, which included proposals such as “city-backed cryptocurrency” to fund local projects.

4. The Syrian American Medical Society is a non-profit that provides humanitarian medical support for Syrians in need. Dr. Ballour treated wounded Syrians in an underground hospital during the Syrian Civil War. She was the subject of the Oscar nominated film “The Cave,” which at least one blogger was pre-emptively sure Russian trolls would say is misinformation. As the author notes, the film’s director has been accused of spying for the CIA and faking news.

Though I haven’t watched the full film, the short follow-up documentary doesn’t provide anything irrefutable that couldn’t be faked, and offers none of the characterization, tension or cinematography I would expect from an acclaimed filmmaker.

5) The Natural Resources Defense Council is a U.S. based environmental advocacy non-profit. They recently wrote a Statement of Record for the Cryptocurrency Asset Mining Transparency Act. They expect the cryptocurrency industry to be worth $32 trillion by 2027, and advocate for crypto assets to be created “in an environmentally responsible, equitable, and just manner.”

1. Abhijit Banerjee received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2019 for his groundbreaking work in antipoverty research, such as his well-regarded 2010 study on the impact of lentils as incentives for immunization in rural India.

While I appreciate Banerjee’s contributions to the scientific canon, the study hardly seems worthy of the most prestigious award on the planet. Though it’s described as groundbreaking, it’s a basic sociological experiment that sounds like something out of Freakonomics, which was wildly popular five years earlier. The paper even notes a similar study from Nicaragua’s socialist government in 1985, which reported greater effectiveness (because they probably got better food).

2) Sam Bankman-Fried is the biggest crypto criminal name you knew until ten minutes ago, I hope.

And so on.

[Originally posted on /r/conspiracy on 6/16/23 but removed by mods]