Chris Van Hollen, Democrat - Maryland, sure seems like he should be a major player in the Clinton/Obama cabal. I could find very little on him by way of scandals, so I thought I would put his name out there to see if anybody else knew anything about him.
He received just about the same amount of money from the Podesta Group as did Hillary Clinton. http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?cycle=2016&id=D000022193
Clinton, Hillary (D)Pres $46,038
Van Hollen, Chris (D-MD)House $43,100
Bush, Jeb (R)Pres $16,500
Van Hollen led Congress in contributions from lobbyists. http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/03/van-hollen-led-congress-contributions-lob
A knack for raising money has helped propel Van Hollen’s steady ascent, which in turn has attracted more donors — many of whom are lobbyists. They like him so much that, in the 2016 election cycle, Van Hollen was the top congressional recipient of campaign contributions from federally-registered lobbyists.
In fact, the median member of the 100 congressional candidates who received the most lobbyist money in the 2016 cycle got less than one-seventh of Van Hollen’s haul.byists/
Chris Van Hollen has international connections and connections to Republicans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Van_Hollen
Van Hollen was born in Karachi, Pakistan, the eldest of three children of American parents, Edith Eliza (née Farnsworth) and Christopher Van Hollen.[3][4] His father was a Foreign Service officer who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1969–72) and U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives (1972–76);[5] and his mother worked in the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department, where she served as chief of the intelligence bureau for South Asia.[6][7][8] He spent parts of his early life in Pakistan, Turkey, India, and Sri Lanka.[7][9] He returned to the United States for his junior year of high school, and attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, where his grandfather once taught.[7]
He is an alumnus of the Kodaikanal International School in southern India. In 1982, Van Hollen graduated from Swarthmore College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy.[10] He continued his studies at Harvard University, where he earned a Master of Public Policy degree, concentrating in national security studies, from the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1985.[10] He earned a Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1990.[10]
Van Hollen worked as a legislative assistant for defense and foreign policy to U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, a Republican from Maryland, from 1985 to 1987.[11] He was also a staff member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1987–89), and a legislative advisor for federal affairs to Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer (1989–91).[11] He was admitted to the Maryland bar in 1990, and joined the law firm of Arent Fox.[12]
His father, Christopher Van Hallen, was a US Diplomant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Van_Hollen_(diplomat)
Van Hollen joined U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson's executive secretariat shortly after completing his doctorate at Johns Hopkins.[1] He attended the NATO Ministerial meeting in Lisbon in February 1952, which admitted Greece and the host nation, Portugal, into NATO.[1]
He was posted as a political officer at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, India, in 1955. He also received postings in Calcutta (now Kolkata), Pakistan and Turkey.[1] He was appointed deputy assistant secretary for the Near East and South Asia in 1969.[1] In 1971, he openly disagreed with National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger's handling of the Bangladesh Liberation War, which led to Bangladesh's independence.[1]
He was appointed as U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives in 1972 by President Richard Nixon.[1]
In 1980 he published a widely quoted article, titled "The Tilt Policy Revisited", about the handling of the 1971 crisis in South Asia in the journal Asian Survey
His mother was CIA and State Dept. http://ethnicelebs.com/chris-van-hollen
The Van Hollen family helped develop the Cedarcroft section of North Baltimore. Chris’s mother worked for the CIA and state department.
He is married to Katherine Wilkens, with whom he has three children.
Chris’ ancestry is largely colonial American. Many of his lines trace back to New England in the 1600s.
Chris’s paternal grandfather was Donald Beauchamp Van Hollen (the son of George Henry Van Hollen and Margaret Beauchamp). George owned the Atlantic Packing Co. Margaret was the daughter of Robert S. Beauchamp and Eleanora C. Mullikin.
Chris’s paternal grandmother was Cecilia Harvey Coale (the daughter of William Ellis Coale and Mary Ella Baily). William was the son of Thomas Ellicott Coale and Cecilia Harvey. Mary Ella was the daughter of Hezekiah Bye Baily and Elizabeth Baker Griffith.
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[–] cantsleepawink ago
Lots more info here: https://www.opensecrets.org/search/?q=Van+Hollen%2C+Chris&cx=010677907462955562473%3Anlldkv0jvam&cof=FORID%3A11
[–] cantsleepawink ago (edited ago)
Just a very quick scan of contributors to his campaign is the Marriott International : https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cid=N00013820&cycle=CAREER
I mention them here: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2208720
We're talking deep state.
[–] Commoner [S] ago
From your link
How is it that the US Dept of Health and Human Services contributed money to him? How can that be?
[–] cantsleepawink ago
Look at this law firm perhaps? https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000022249
Coincidentally, I just posted this:
https://voat.co/v/pizzagatewhatever/2226716
https://voat.co/v/pizzagatewhatever/2226710
[–] Commoner [S] ago
Wow, Thanks for all the links. Nice finds. They are all connected, but some of them keep very low profiles.