that. so the question becomes why did his speaking fees go up and why did it go up with corporations and with individuals and with people connected to foreign governments who had business before the state department. what s your answer? my answer is that s extremely troubling, especially the fact that it s a very extensive pattern. this is not one or two examples. there are 11 instances, when you have one or two examples it s quins dents, when you have this many to me it s a trend. let s go through a time line and it s complicated but a timeline of the uranium deal that bret mentioned and you report in the book. 2005 bill clinton and frank giustra gives the clinton $31 million and later pledges $100 million more. 2010 a russian company wants to buy uranium one. the new chairman of uranium one
author i m looking at patterns of behavior and saying this warrants further investigation. there s one other case a lot more cases but one other i want to get into that is vcs miningartup company granted for first time in 50 years a permit for open pit gold mining in haiti. one of the board members of vcs mining was a fellow named tony rodham hillary clinton s younger brother who has no background in mining. exactly. this is again another example where you see this timing question. tony rodham meets with vcs mining officials at the clinton global initiative event in 2012. a couple months later granted a permit by the haitian government difficult to get, only two granted in the last 50 years and lo and behold he is added to the board. you can look at that and say it s coincidence. but as you see events repeated