The Utah DOJ Clinton Probe, A Nuclear Power Plant, And An Attempt To Implicate Trump

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The proposed transaction to purchase the power plant is something I'd not heard or read about at all. The info begins about a third of the way down the page and has lots of twists and turns with the Clintons and Gore. I wonder how deep this rabbit hole is going to go???

The Utah DOJ Clinton Probe, A Nuclear Power Plant, And An Attempt To Implicate Trump

" ....The Bellefonte nuclear power plant

The development is the decision of the Tennessee Valley Authority not to proceed with the sale of a nuclear power plant site in Alabama to Tennessee-based property developer Franklin L. Haney.  That decision was announced abruptly on 30 November, the deadline for Haney to acquire loan funding to develop and operate the plant.

This might seem like the most obscure and unrelated of events.  But it involved Michael Cohen, tangentially, in an exceptionally odd way.  And the sequence of events since the 2016 election looks very much like an attempt by Democrats – with whom Haney has been deeply connected for more than 30 years – to create an appearance of impropriety for Trump.

The nuclear power plant is called Bellefonte; located in Hollywood, Alabama (in the northeast corner, close to the Tennessee state line), it was started in the 1970s but never finished.  Different attempts have been made to revive it as a TVA generation source, and/or acquire it for independent operation, over the years.

Franklin Haney’s attempt is unusual, as he is not a nuclear property developer.  (It’s also unusual in light of his very colorful background.)  The pending sale made national news earlier in 2018 because of the Michael Cohen connection.  In or just before April 2018, Haney reportedly offered to pay Cohen $10 million if Cohen could grease the skids for loan funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, among other potential sources.

The main reason for mainstream outlets to feature this story, which peaked in the first week of August 2018, appears to have been to implicate Cohen, and by inference Trump, in a pay-for-play scheme.  Nothing came of it, and none of the parties has been willing to talk about it.  Cohen reportedly lobbied a delegation from Qatar for funding for the Bellefonte site on 5 April 2018, in Miami – but then was raided by the FBI on 9 April, after that his services for Haney were apparently terminated.  The DOE reportedly has not confirmed whether it was contacted by Cohen......"

https://lidblog.com/nuclear-power-plant-sale/

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Thanks Jarasan. I'm thankful every single day for that exact thing.

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