The Clintons are crooks, folks; always have been...
always will be. Crooks.. liars... degenerates... SCUM...
* * * * * *
The charity...
(*SMIRK*)
...run by the Clintons has raised $2 billion since it was
founded in 2001 - $144.3 million in 2013 alone - but only a small fraction of
the take went to its “life-saving work,” according to analysts who monitor
non-profits.
* DO YOU CARE, FOLKS? YOU SHOULD. AND IF YOU DON'T... DO
SOCIETY A FAVOR AND SERIOUSLY CONSIDER KILLING YOURSELF.
The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation claims...
(*SNICKER*)
...that 88% of the money it raises goes to actual charity
work, but...
* BUT...
...experts who have looked at the books put the number at
about 10%.
* TEN PERCENT. TEN FRIGGIN' PERCENT!
The rest, they say, goes mostly to salaries, benefits,
travel and fund-raising.
The foundation, originally called the Clinton Global
Initiative, has come under close scrutiny as Hillary Clinton prepares for a
presidential run. Revelations in the soon-to-be-released book, “Clinton Cash:
The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make
Bill and Hillary Rich,” by Peter Schweizer, have spurred numerous media investigations
into the relationship between Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State,
the foundation’s solicitation of foreign money and the ex-president’s lucrative
speaking engagements around the world.
Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon defended the charity's
work in Africa and elsewhere and said in a statement there isn’t “a shred of
evidence” that Hillary Clinton did anything to benefit Clinton Foundation
donors while in office. The foundation has an unlikely defender in conservative
newsman Christopher Ruddy, founder of Newsmax and author of the 1997 book,
"The Strange Death of Vincent Foster," in which he darkly theorized
that the Clinton White House lawyer's death was not a suicide. In a recent post
on his site called "In Defense of the Clinton Foundation," Ruddy
blasted "numerous unsubstantiated, unconnected, and baseless allegations
being made about" the Clintons.
* CHECK OUT THIS APRIL 28TH PALM BEACH POST STORY
ENTITLED, "CLINTON CRITIC-TURNED-PAL CHRISTOPHER RUDDY DEFENDS CLINTON
FOUNDATION, LIKES JEB BUSH" BEFORE TAKING RUDDY TOO SERIOUSLY.
(*SHRUG*)
The foundation raised $144.3 million – and spent $84.7
million in 2013 – allocating $8.8 million to grants for other organizations,
Davis said. The Clinton Foundation’s own IRS tax filings show the organization
spent $8.5 million, or 10% of all 2013
expenditures, on travel, and another $4.8 million - or 5.6% of all expenditures
- on office supplies, Davis said, questioning whether plane tickets, hotel
accommodations, ink cartridges and staplers “directly change lives.”
* $4.8 MILLION ON... OFFICE SUPPLIES...?!?!
Organizations that rate charities on their effectiveness
in spending donations on the causes they champion say gauging the Clinton
Foundation is difficult, but they have raised flags.
Charity Navigator added the Clinton Foundation to its
“watch list,” noting the organization officials “had previously evaluated this
organization, but have since determined that this charity's atypical business
model cannot be accurately captured in our current rating methodology.” While
maintaining its removal of The Clinton Foundation from its website is “neither
a condemnation nor an endorsement of this charity,” the Clinton Foundation is
one of only 23 charities on the watch list.
Another charity rating organization, GiveWell, said the
Clinton Health Access Initiative declined in November 2012 to participate in
its review process, and hasn’t since.
(*SMIRK*)
The Clinton Health Access Initiative in 2008 and 2009
acted as a drug distribution powerhouse, purchasing $226 million in
prescription drugs at a discount to distribute worldwide, a practice ended by
2012.
In 2012, the Better Business Bureau reported the Clinton
Foundation did not meet the standards of an accountable charity, failing on six
counts, largely because of a lack of transparent financial reporting. According
to the Better Business Bureau website, the charity is again under review and a
new report will be released soon.
(*SHRUG*)
Some of the financial reporting can be messy to follow,
in part because the Clintons created separate entities, such as the Clinton
Health Access Initiative, the Haiti relief initiative, Clinton Global
Initiative, the Clinton Presidential Center and the Clinton Climate Initiative.
While IRS filings show the Clintons do not receive a "salary,"
compensation comes through other means, such as travel, speaking fees and
consulting contracts.
* AND BY GOD ARE THEY COMPENSATED...!!! (IN FACT, I COULD
SEE GOV. CHRISTIE TAKING A JOB WITH THE FOUNDATION ONE DAY; HE FAMOUSLY ENJOYS
LIVING HIGH OFF THE HOG ON SOMEONE ELSE'S DIME AS WELL!)
As first noted by Politico, the organization’s 990 forms
show travel costs for the Clinton Foundation more than doubled in 2013 to
$8.448 million largely because of “extraordinary security and other
requirements” for the Clintons.
(*SNORT*)
* SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION IS FREE. (TO THEM AT LEAST!)
Schweizer’s book explores one way the foundation brought
in money from donors who had business before the State Department. The charity
accepted millions of dollars from the head of Uranium One, and a firm promoting
its stock, while the Russians sought approval from U.S. agencies, including the
State Department, to take over the company. The deal had to be approved by the
State Department... then-headed by Hillary Clinton... because the sale gave the
Russians control of 20%of the uranium production in the U.S.
During negotiations, Uranium One's chairman donated $2.3
million to the Clinton Foundation.
* JUST AN INNOCENT COINCIDENCE I'M SURE...
(*GAGGING*)
Bill Clinton also reportedly received $500,000 from a
Russian firm promoting the company's stocks, for a speech in Moscow. None of
these transactions appear in Clinton Foundation disclosures.
(*SMIRK*)
A separate investigation by government watchdog group
Judicial Watch revealed Bill Clinton earned $48 million from 215 speeches he
made while his wife headed the State Department, and State Department
officials, who were charged with flagging conflicts and ethics concerns, did
not object.
* AND STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS - WHO WORKED FOR HILLARY
CLINTON - DIDN'T OBJECT.
(*SNORT*)
A Washington Post investigation revealed Bill Clinton’s
earnings for speeches were closer to $100 million.
* WOW...
In another deal, Canadian mining executive Stephen
Dattels donated 2 million shares of the company Polo Resources to the Clinton
Foundation, which the foundation did not disclose...
* FOLKS... YA CAN'T MAKE THIS $HIT UP!
...and weeks later, America’s Bangladesh ambassador
reportedly used political influence to convince the Bangladesh prime minister
to approve open pit mining there, boosting Polo Resources’ profits, according
to the Wall Street Journal.
(*RUEFUL CHUCKLE*)
“It seems like the Clinton Foundation operates as a slush
fund for the Clintons,” Bill Allison, a senior fellow at the government
watchdog group, Sunlight Foundation, told the New York Post.
Reg Baker, a certified public accountant who has offices
in Hawaii and Las Vegas and has served on several non-profit boards, told
Fox News the foundation is not run like most charities. “It sounds like
another out-of-control family affair,” Baker said. “It is totally out of sync
with charitable organizations' best practices.”
* AGAIN... RE-READ FROM THE TOP IF NECESSARY... CHARITY
NAVIGATOR... GIVE WELL... EVEN THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU FOR GOD'S SAKE...
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
The 2014 fundraising numbers for the Clinton Foundation
have not been released publicly yet, but the amount raised is likely to
increase.
In 2008, the Clinton Foundation raised $188.2 million,
and that revenue spiked to $249 million in 2009.
In 2010, while Hillary Clinton headed the State
Department, the foundation’s revenue dropped to $140 million in 2010, $56.3 million
in 2011, and $51.5 million in 2012. Since she’s returned, the foundation’s
revenue jumped back up to $144.4 million, Davis noted.
After a barrage of investigative reports across a wide
variety of media highlighting the foundation’s lack of transparency and
disclosure, including during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state,
the Clinton Foundation announced last week it will amend its tax returns for
the last five years.
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