A thorough wrap-up of the Hillary scandal, rich in juicy detail, is provided in this Clarice Feldman article at American Thinker. Ten scandals are listed complete with excerpts from sourced articles. We list some of them here with brief excerpts from her commentary. DLH
The Clintons’ Little Tin Box (excerpts)
Every five minutes it seems the scandal deepens as it is beyond question that the Clinton family (including new to the game Chelsea) have been using their tax-exempt charity the Clinton Foundation to enrich themselves, expand their power, and sell out U.S. interests. The only questions remaining are when will she drop out of the race and can we expect a thorough investigation of the Foundation with appropriate consequence
1.) Millions from a Russian named Pinchuk, who trades with Iran:
2.) Millions from Russians who sought and obtained the rights to 20% of U.S. uranium resources:
3.) Millions were paid to Bill Clinton for speeches by big Foundation donors while Hillary served as secretary of state, aspects of which were not made clear by the foundation’s public filings. These payments raise numerous conflict of interest issues as do the millions paid directly to the Foundation by foreigners and foreign governments.
6.) The Clintons seem to have directly dipped into the box to sustain their lavish lifestyle, not for charitable purposes. For example reports indicated Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea together used $8 million in 2013 for their travel expenses:
Overall, the administrative expenses are mindboggling, as The Federalist reports:
Between 2009 and 2012, the Clinton Foundation raised over $500 million dollars according to a review of IRS documents by The Federalist (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008). A measly 15 percent of that, or $75 million, went towards programmatic grants. More than $25 million went to fund travel expenses. Nearly $110 million went toward employee salaries and benefits. And a whopping $290 million during that period — nearly 60 percent of all money raised — was classified merely as “other expenses.” Official IRS forms do not list cigar or dry-cleaning expenses as a specific line item. The Clinton Foundation may well be saving lives, but it seems odd that the costs of so many life-saving activities would be classified by the organization itself as just random, miscellaneous expenses.
7.) They used the Foundation, which taxpayers fund to the tune of $16 million through Bill’s “office expense” allowance”, to employ and further enrich their operatives:
. . . I seem to recall that her evasive, ever-changing testimony and document expropriation and destruction almost resulted in an indictment against her in the Whitewater investigation but the prosecution declined to seek her indictment then, undoubtedly because it would have been a futile exercise to try the then First Lady before a D.C. jury. Will anyone take action against the Clintons now?
Will this corruption knock her out of the presidential contest? Who on the shallow Democrat bench could the Democrats call on to replace her? Why are the major media suddenly giving this the attention it really deserved while she was secretary of state? Surely, they could have spent a fraction of the time they spent investigating Palin’s emails and Romney’s high school pranks to find out about this big time graftorama?
* Including The Washington Post; New York Times, and Politico
