A new Department of Justice
probe of obvious
charity fraud
may not end well
for Bill and Hillary Clinton.
I say "may not end well"
because our Attorney General
Jeff Sessions strikes me
as an incompetent leader.
Sessions should have been
fired immediately after
he recused himself
from overseeing
what we now know is
a fake Russia Investigation
-- I said here there was nothing
to investigate over a year ago
and it was crazy to believe Trump
would collude with anyone --
he's a one-man show, not
a colluder!
In fact
one of the biggest problems
in Trump's first year
is a series of actions
being too tough
on the Russians,
included in my
subscription-only
economics newsletter!
But never mind reality.
So far the Clinton Foundation
has only been "investigated"
by government people
loyal to the Clintons
or the Obamas,
between 2001 and 2005.
The Clinton Foundation
is a charity fraud.
A very small percentage
of the incoming money
goes to actual charity
-- just enough to stay "legal".
Bill Clinton uses
the so-called public charity
to pressure donors
to hire him to make short
multi-hundred-thousand dollar
speeches about the charity
-- his primary source of income.
According to IRS rules,
that's not allowed
for a person whose "charity"
claims a tax-free status,
and is a felony.
Bill even had the nerve
to take in $9 million
for speeches
to FOREIGN companies
and while Hillary
was Secretary of State,
according to
the Wall Street Journal.
Then-FBI Director Robert Mueller,
and then-Deputy Attorney General
James Comey could not seem to find
the obvious frauds
as a presidential library complex
in Little Rock, Arkansas
... morphed into allegedly fighting
HIV/AIDS internationally?
... from unregistered offices
in New York and Massachusetts
... without ever obtaining
required audits of worldwide activities.
There is no evidence the IRS
provided approval
to the Clinton Foundation
to “fight HIV/AIDS internationally”
as a tax-exempt purpose
by Nov. 18, 2004,
the date the presidential archive
was officially donated,
despite the charity’s
more than 13+ years
of solicitation across
state and national boundaries
using telephones, mail,
and the internet.
Tax filings fail to explain
payments to members
of the Clinton family
for services received
and for reimbursement
of expenses by donors
to the Clinton Foundation.
Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein
missed obvious errors
in the Clinton Foundation
tax filings for 2010
(submitted in 2011 with
amended versions submitted in 2015)
concerning a $37.1 million donation
to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund
at a mysterious P.O. Box address
in Baltimore, Maryland,
that was never declared,
as required, in key states like New York.
Rosenstein failed to require
Laureate Education
and the Clinton Foundation
to explain how they organized the
“Clinton Global Initiative University”
and why the Clinton Foundation
tax filings for 2010 through 2016
don’t explain what Bill Clinton did
for the $17.6 million he was paid
as "part-time chancellor"
while he held key roles
at the Clinton Foundation?
Doug Band was a
longtime personal assistant
to Bill Clinton,
and considered
the "key architect"
of the Clinton post-presidency;
helping to create
the Clinton Foundation
and the Clinton Global
Initiative (CGI)
which allowed the Clintons
to get foreign money.
A 2012 email published by WikiLeaks
sent from long-time Bill Clinton aide
Doug Band, to John Podesta:
Band urges Podesta to speak with
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about
"The investigation into
her [Chelsea Clinton]
getting paid for campaigning,
using foundation resources
for her wedding and life
for a decade, taxes on money
from her parents.."
Band alleges Chelsea Clinton
used Clinton Foundation “resources”
for her 2010 wedding
to Marc Mezvinsky.
Band left the Foundation in 2011
to start his own company,
Teneo Holdings.
WikiLeaks emails revealed
that Chelsea's husband Marc Mezvinsky
used Clinton Foundation connections
to raise money for his hedge fund.
In a January 2012 email to Podesta
and current Virginia Gov.
Terry McAuliffe,
Band wrote that Mezvinsky
invited “several potential investors”
for his hedge fund
“and a few current business ones”
to a foundation poker night fundraiser
he had been planning.
“I assume all are contributing
to the foundation,
which of course isn't the point,”
Band wrote.
“The entire plan of his
has been to use this
for his business.”
In the same email, Band
— referring to Chelsea V. Clinton
by her initials — wrote that Mezvinsky
“has CVC making some calls for him
to get mtgs with some clinton people.”
And, in a Nov. 2011 memo,
Band wrote that major
Clinton Foundation donor Marc Lasry
was “assisting Marc Mezvinsky
– Chelsea Clinton Mezvinsky’s husband
– in raising money for his new fund.”
The Clintons have a long,
and very sordid history
with Haiti:
Hillary Clinton's State Department
pressured Haiti
to suppress their minimum wage
in sweatshops to benefit
US clothing manufacturers.
Factory owners
refused to pay 62 cents per hour,
or $5 per day, as a measure
unanimously passed
by the Haitian Parliament
in June 2009
would have mandated.
Factory owners
had the backing of the
US Agency for
International Development
and the US Embassy
when they took that stand.
Clinton Foundation donors
were also allegedly handed
government contracts
to clean up in the aftermath
of the 2010 Haiti earthquake:
Klause Eberwein was a critic
of the Clinton Foundation’s
activities in Haiti,
where he served as
director general of the government’s
economic development agency,
Fonds d’assistance économique et social,
for three years.
“The Clinton Foundation,
they are criminals,
they are thieves,
they are liars,
they are a disgrace,”
Eberwein said at a protest
outside the Clinton Foundation
headquarters in Manhattan in 2016.
Eberwein was due to appear
before the Haitian Senate Ethics
and Anti-Corruption Commission
where he was widely expected to testify
that the Clinton Foundation
misappropriated Haiti earthquake
donations from international donors.
He was set to expose
the Clinton Foundation's
misdeeds in Haiti
... and suddenly shot
himself in the head
a week before
he was able to testify?
Klaus Eberwein
was found dead
in a Miami Dade motel room
in what examiners ruled a suicide.
Not long before his death,
Eberwein, who was 50-years-old,
reportedly told acquaintances
he feared for his life
because of his fierce criticism
of the Clinton Foundation.
His close friends
and business partners
were taken aback
by the idea he may have
committed suicide.
“It’s really shocking,”
said friend Gilbert Bailly.
“We grew up together;
he was like family.”
The Clinton Foundation
started in 1997
as a public charity,
organized to hold federal records
of the Clinton presidency...
and somehow evolved by 2002
to “fight HIV/AIDS internationally,”
plus a raft of additional
tax-exempt purposes
that were never properly authorized
in the foundation’s
Articles of Incorporation.
The IRS also has the ability
to cross-check declarations
made by the Clinton Foundation
with declarations made by donors
such as the Gates Foundation
that are private foundations.
The Clinton charity
is a public foundation,
and there are
significant differences.
A “public charity”
must be supported broadly
by members of the public
and cannot be controlled
by a single family.
On Nov. 2, 2013,
the Clinton Foundation violated
its presidential library agreement
with the National Archives
by amending its bylaws
to create Class A
and Class B directors.
The amendments
gave Class A directors
unchallenged authority
to dominate Foundation.
The amendments
specifically named
as Class A directors
Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton.
Both the Clinton Foundation
and its multiple affiliates
ceased being validly organized
and operated public charities
as a result of the
Class A / Class B amendment.
A private foundation
may not contribute money
to an entity claiming to be
a public charity
when the recipient is not in fact
a validly organized and operated
public charity.
Such grants are treated by the IRS
as “taxable expenditures.”
The Clinton Foundation
and many large private foundations
operate in New York State
where charities must register
and where they are required
to report “material changes”
in their legal status
and operating structures
within 30 days.
Starting in 2001,
the Gates Foundation
made numerous donations
to the Clinton Foundation
and its affiliates,
per Gates Foundation
public filings.
Why did it take so long
for the IRS to spot
many obvious red flags
in Clinton Foundation filings?
Loosely controlled charities
can be used as slush funds
for the rich and powerful
... Clinton Foundation donors
provided most of the
over $250 million
that the Clinton's "earned"
making short speeches
for huge six-figure sums
after Bill left the White House.
When that is done,
your "charity"
is not allowed to be
a tax-free charity.
