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Businessman: Kelley wanted $80M to win deal
KCRA Sacramento - 2 hours agoA New York businessman says Tampa, Florida, socialite Jill Kelley asked him for an $80 million commission if she used her influence to win a ...
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Businessman: Jill Kelley Wanted $80M to Broker Korea Deal: 'It Didn't Smell Right'
"Ms. Kelley made it clear to me that General Petraeus put her in this position, and that's why she was able to have access to such senior levels [of the Korean government]," said Adam Victor, president and CEO of TransGas Development Systems, "that they were essentially doing a favor for General Petraeus, and that she had access solely because of her relationship with General Petraeus."
Victor, who met Kelley at the Republican National Convention in Tampa in August, said he was disappointed in Gen. Petraeus for helping Kelley become an honorary consul. "Frankly, I blame Gen. Petraeus for this as a lapse of judgment," he said. "The general should have known better."
Gen. Petraeus resigned as CIA director last Friday after an FBI investigation turned up evidence of an affair between Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, co-author of the Petraeus biography "All In." The investigation began when Kelley, a Tampa socialite, told an FBI agent she knew about "harassing" emails that turned out to originate from Broadwell.
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Victor said that he and Kelley met in "the VIP section" at the convention, where Kelly said that "she was a very good friend of Gen. Petraeus," and that "he arranged for her to get this position of honorary consul for South Korea" to promote free trade. She also allegedly said she had access to senior government officials in Korea.
Victor said he thought it made sense that Petraeus would want to put a trusted aide in charge of promoting free trade. When Kelley named her fee for brokering the deal, however, Victor balked. The coal gasification plants under discussion were worth $4 billion, said Victor -- and Kelley wanted a two percent cut. "That's an $80 million fee," he said. "And I mean that is problematic . . . No broker gets $80 million. I mean that's two whole orders of magnitude higher than what they would get."
Victor said he "terminated the relationship" after Kelley asked for $80 million. He decided that while she was not making an inappropriate request on purpose, it showed she was inexperienced and unqualified for the job. He also began to wonder about Petraeus's judgment.
"It became clear that it did not smell right," he said. "Gen. Petraeus should not have put an inexperienced person in charge of the Free Trade Agreement with such an important ally as South Korea."
"It's a sad day for the country," concluded Victor. "Gen. Petraeus has served this country well."
A spokesperson for Jill Kelley did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Retired Army Col. Steve Boylan, a friend and former spokesperson for ex-CIA Director Petraeus, said it was "nonsense" that Petraeus had any part in Kelley's alleged Korean deal. "He knows nothing about it," insisted Boylan. "What other people do he can't control." Another source told ABC News that Petraeus had asked Kelley to stop throwing his name around.
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Businessman: Jill Kelley Wanted $80M to Broker Korea Deal: 'It Didn't Smell Right
I think this likely had to do with Jill Kelley's and her husbands pending property losses and potential bankruptcy more than anything else. Any port in a storm?
I think a lot of people around the world are trying to find ways to survive right now both rich and poor.
Also, remember all this information has become public without subpoenas as far as I know. So, once you put something out there on email almost anything can happen to it. That's why even though most people now conduct serious serious business dealings on the internet through emails and such I really don't think it is a good idea. Because of what all these people are experiencing likely without even committing a punishable crime? None of these people are likely to go to jail for any of this at all. All of this just sounds like how many younger people (under 50 or 60 years of age) function in the upper classes of the U.S. and the world. It is public knowledge but should it really be if no one has done anything illegal in the end?
Petraeus likely will be a Senator or even President one day despite all this. Or he could be the President of a Fortune 500 company because he would have the right type of skillset for this especially if the company had anything to do at all with weapons of any sort. He could be almost anything in the U.S. Government after this and the same for Jill Kelley in social circles nationwide and worldwide. The only person that likely won't come out of this well is:
Paula Broadwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_BroadwellPaula Dean Broadwell (née Kranz; born November 9, 1972) is an American writer, academic, and anti-terrorism professional. She is the co-author with Vernon ... end quote from google.However, even with her she likely will become rich (even a millionaire) by writing a tell all book about all this that will enthrall the world and become worth millions too.Publicists say, "There is no bad publicity!"
You may think I'm being cynical but I'm not. I'm just being realistic because of what I have seen already in my life so far.
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