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Published: 25 July 2016 25 July 2016

In his less-than-enthusiastic endorsement of Hillary Clinton as the Democrat's choice for President, Sen. Bernie Sanders decried "Greed, recklessness, and illegal behavior" and declared that we couldn't let "billionaires buy elections." Perhaps his opposition research team discovered what we have about Clinton's connections with the very entities he despises: Wall Street'which he's accused of "gambling trillions in risky financial instruments;" and "huge financial institutions" that he says: "simply have too much economic and political power over this country."

Wall Street and its "huge financial institutions" are Clinton allies'supporting both her campaign and donating big bucks to the Clinton Foundation.

In the batch of Democrat National Committee (DNC) emails WikiLeaks made public on July 23, DNC Research Associate Jeremy Berns tells his colleagues: "She [Clinton] doesn't want the people knowing about her relationships on Wall Street." He adds: "She wants to achieve consistency and the best way to do that is to keep the people ignorant."

For the past four years, I've collaborated with citizen activist/researcher Christine Lakatos (she's been at it for six years) on what we've called: President Obama's green-energy crony-corruption scandal. Together we've produced the single largest body of work on the topic. In her blog, the Green Corruption Files, she posts her exhaustive research'what I affectionately refer to as the drink-from-the-fire-hydrant version. I, then, use her research to draft an overview that is appropriate for the casual reader.

More recently, our efforts have morphed to include the Democrats' presidential nominee, as Lakatos found the same people are her "wealthy cronies," too.

In Lakatos' most-recent, and final Green Corruption File, released on July 19, she states: "While there are numerous ways you can 'buy access to the Clintons,' I'm only going to connect the dots to the Green Gangsters, which we've already established are rich political pals of President Obama, as well as other high-ranking Democrats and their allies, who were awarded hundreds of billions of G