Bill May Get Away With It After All
Just when you’re certain you’ve heard about every conceivable filthy, reprehensible crime to which the Clintons have been a party, another bombshell drops. Besides having become the most infamous liars to ever rise to notoriety, we now know that they’re the most corrupt and ubiquitous grifters to ever appear in American politics.
The term “grifter” was born in the secret language of the underworld, a realm in which a grifter might be a pickpocket, a crooked gambler, a confidence man, or any criminal who relied on skill and wits rather than physical violence—and to be “on the grift” was to make a living by stings and clever thefts. In the famous 1973 movie The Sting, Robert Redford was the grifter, while Paul Newman was the con-man.
Newman the Con-Man and Redford the Grifter, Just Like the Other Two We Know
That said, coming to light once again now is a long-forgotten scandal where we find that lifetime professional grifter Bill Clinton may well have been responsible for thousands of deaths through sales of tainted blood.
An overnight poll by CDP was unable to find even a single person who expressed surprise.
Governor Bill Clinton and Arkansas First Lady Hillary In The Early ’80s
Here are the facts: The year Bill Clinton became governor of Arkansas, the state’s prison board awarded a fat contract to a Little Rock company named Health Management Associates, or HMA. The company was paid $3 million a year to run medical services for the state’s prison system, which had been blasted in a ruling by the US Supreme Court as an “evil place run by some evil men.”
In The Early ’80s, While Clinton Was Governor, The Cummings Unit Prison in Grady, Arkansas Was One of the Worst In the World
Health Management Associates not only made money from providing medical care to prisoners, but it also started a profitable side venture: blood mining. The company paid prisoners $7 per pint of their blood. HMA then sold the blood on the international plasma market for $50 a pint, splitting the proceeds 50/50 with the Arkansas Department of Corrections.
Corruption among the administrators of the prison blood program and poor supervision resulted in disease-tainted blood—often carrying hepatitis or HIV—knowingly being shipped to blood brokers, who in turn shipped it to Canada, Europe, and Asia.
Because of the exploding AIDS crisis, U.S. regulations didn’t permit the sale of prisoners’ blood here in America.
But HMA was able to find a willing buyer in Montreal, which brokered a deal with Connaught—a Toronto blood-fractionator—which was unaware of the source of the supplies. The blood was then distributed throughout Canada by the Red Cross. Sales continued until 1983, when HMA revealed that some of the plasma might be contaminated with the AIDS virus and hepatitis.
Here’s the “smoking gun” trail that leads back to Clinton: Dr. Francis “Bud” Henderson started HMA in the 1970s. As the company began to expand, he brought in a Little Rock banker named Leonard Dunn to run the firm. Dunn was a political ally and friend of the Clintons. He was appointed by Clinton to sit on the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission and served as finance chair of Clinton’s 1990 gubernatorial campaign. Later that same year, Dunn purchased the Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan (later to achieve great notoriety in the Whitewater Scandal) from Clinton’s business partner, James McDougal. Dunn later served as chief of staff to Arkansas’ Lieutenant Governor, Winthrop Rockefeller.
Convicted Felon and Clinton Crony James McDougal
Bill Clinton with McDougal’s Wife Susan—Nothing Untoward Going On Here
Dunn’s ties to Clinton served HMA well after the company came under scrutiny for both abusive treatment of prison patients and shoddy management of the blood center. In 1983, the Food and Drug Administration stripped HMA of its license to sell blood after the scandal came to light.
An Arkansas state police report, compiled as part of an investigation into the company’s operations at the Cummings Unit, noted that the FDA pulled the company’s license to sell blood “for falsifying records and shipping hot blood.” The report goes on to say that “the suspension was for collecting and shipping plasma which had been collected from donors with a history of positive tests for Hepatitis B…the violations were directly related to using inmate labor in the record and donor reject list.”
Dunn, and the Arkansas Department of Corrections, convinced the FDA that the fault lay with a prison guard who was taking kickbacks from prisoners in order to let them get back into the blood trade. The license was quickly restored and tainted blood once more began to flow.
That didn’t end the investigations. HMA’s contract was up for renewal by the prison board. When investigators began probing the company’s practices, Dunn repeatedly boasted of his ties to Bill Clinton. “Mr. Dunn spoke openly and freely and explained to these investigators that he was the financial portion of the corporation as well as its political arm,” investigator Sam Probasco stated in his report. “Dunn advised that he was close to Governor Clinton as well as the majority of state politicians presently in office.”
But an independent review by the Institute for Law and Policy Planning, a California firm, concluded that HMA’s work in the prisons was extremely deficient. The report cited more than forty contract violations and was replete with instances of negligence—in the care of patients and handling of the blood center. Much of the blame for the problem landed on another Clinton pal Art Lockhart, who was the head of the Arkansas Department of Corrections.
When the independent review came out, pressure mounted for Clinton to fire Lockhart. Clinton swiftly nixed the idea, telling reporters that he didn’t believe the allegations were serious enough for him to “ask Mr. Lockhart to resign.”
The Arkansas State police launched a half-hearted investigation into allegations that HMA was awarded a renewal of its contract after they bribed members of the state prison board. The investigation soon focused an attorney named Richard Mays, a close friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Mays was given at least $25,000 by HMA to act as an “ombudsman” for the company, a position that featured no job description and no apparent responsibilities.
Arkansas Attorney Richard Mays, Sr.
Mays, who served as a vice-president for finance at the DNC, has been at the heart of several Clinton scandals. In 1996, he was credited with securing Little Rock restaurateur Charlie Trie’s $100,000 contribution to the Democratic Party’s coffers. He also appears in the Whitewater probe, where he tried to stave off the federal prosecution of David Hale. Mays and his wife were frequent guests at the White House, including an overnight stay in the Lincoln bedroom. Dunn claims that Mays was recommended to him by Clinton, as well as prison board chairman and Clinton intimate, Woodson Walker.
In 1986, HMA’s contract was revoked. But that didn’t stop the Arkansas Department of Corrections’ prison blood program. A new company, Pine Bluff Biologicals, took over the blood center and expanded it to include two other prison units. The new company’s safety record turned out to be about as dismal as HMA’s.
Back in 1998, the lid has been blown off this scandal by Michael Galster, who conducted orthopedic clinics in the Arkansas prison system during the period the blood was collected.
Afraid to tell the story any other way, Galster authored a thinly veiled fictional book called “Blood Trail,” which tells the story of an Arkansas governor’s role in the mega-scandal—an Arkansas governor, by the way, who later becomes president.
Blood Trail, By Michael Galster a/k/a Michael Sullivan
Galster charges HMA officials knew the blood was tainted as they sold it to Canada and a half-dozen other foreign countries. He also alleges that Clinton knew of the scheme and likely benefited from it financially.
“We now have solid evidence he not only knew about it, but that he signed off on it,” Galster told the Calgary Sun.
Galster says Clinton organized a payoff plan to various officials, including a judge, to make sure the blood sales continued. He claims millions were made from the conspiracy because between 5,000 and 8,000 units of blood were shipped every week from one prison alone. He has eyewitness reports that inmates were even drawing blood from each other with dirty needles.
Galster was so fearful of the dreaded Clinton attack machine and the body count that it has left in its wake, that he wrote the book under a pen name, Michael Sullivan.
A 2005 documentary, which clearly revealed Bill Clinton’s ties to this Arkansas prison blood enterprise, renewed controversy about this long-forgotten scandal.
The documentary, titled Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal, showed how senior figures in the state prison system altered prisoners’ medical records to make it look like they were not carrying the deadly diseases. Thousands of unwitting victims who received transfusions of a product called “Factor 8” made from this blood died as a result.
Here’s a two-minute trailer for the documentary film:
Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal
The mask continues to be pulled off the Clintons—revealing them to be the world-class grifters that they are—while the curtain continues to be drawn back on their more than thirty-year history of insider deals and unprecedented corruption. The people who died as a result of this nefarious operation are of course, in addition to the rest of what the world now knows as “the Clinton body count.“
Before it’s all over, they may well wind up wishing that Hillary had never run for the office of president, an action that has brought all this attention to two lives filled with the worst kinds of corrupt, crooked activities this country has ever known.
