Now we have the former president’s daughter, whose name is on the foundation, accusing his aides of “hustling” business to win clients at foundation events. We have Chelsea insisting that these aides were taking “significant sums of money from my parents personally.”
And we have longtime Hillary loyalist Huma Abedin concerned about the former secretary of State promising to attend a foundation event in Morocco at the request of its king, who had just promised a $12-million donation to the foundation. “She created this mess and she knows it,” Abedin wrote.
As the Times puts it,
Most voters aren’t going to drill down into the details. But all this plays into perhaps the most damaging narrative against her, that she and her husband skirt ethical rules, are not trustworthy, are cashing in on public service and are too close to big donors and corporations that help support their lifestyle.
he same goes for a memo about “Bill Clinton Inc.” from Doug Band, a top aide and then a key player at the Clinton Foundation. He said part of his job was securing “in-kind services for the President and his family — for personal travel, hospitality, vacation and the like.”
As the Post puts it: “Band also detailed a circle of enrichment in which he raised money for the Clinton Foundation from top-tier corporations such as Dow Chemical and Coca-Cola that were clients of his firm, Teneo, while pressing many of those same donors to provide personal income to the former president.”
Band wrote, for instance, that Teneo’s partners had raised more than $8 million for the foundation and $3 million in speaking fees for Bill Clinton—and that he’d lined up deals that could pay the former president $66 million over the next nine years.
In one example cited by the Journal, businessman Declan Kelly, a friend of Bill, introduced him to a top UBS Group executive, Bob McCann. “Mr. Kelly subsequently asked Mr. Mccann to support the foundation…[and] also encouraged Mr. Mccann to invite President Clinton to give several paid speeches, which he has done.” The take from those speeches: $1.5 million.
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And we have longtime Hillary loyalist Huma Abedin concerned about the former secretary of State promising to attend a foundation event in Morocco at the request of its king, who had just promised a $12-million donation to the foundation. “She created this mess and she knows it,” Abedin wrote.
As the Times puts it,
Most voters aren’t going to drill down into the details. But all this plays into perhaps the most damaging narrative against her, that she and her husband skirt ethical rules, are not trustworthy, are cashing in on public service and are too close to big donors and corporations that help support their lifestyle.
he same goes for a memo about “Bill Clinton Inc.” from Doug Band, a top aide and then a key player at the Clinton Foundation. He said part of his job was securing “in-kind services for the President and his family — for personal travel, hospitality, vacation and the like.”
As the Post puts it: “Band also detailed a circle of enrichment in which he raised money for the Clinton Foundation from top-tier corporations such as Dow Chemical and Coca-Cola that were clients of his firm, Teneo, while pressing many of those same donors to provide personal income to the former president.”
Band wrote, for instance, that Teneo’s partners had raised more than $8 million for the foundation and $3 million in speaking fees for Bill Clinton—and that he’d lined up deals that could pay the former president $66 million over the next nine years.
In one example cited by the Journal, businessman Declan Kelly, a friend of Bill, introduced him to a top UBS Group executive, Bob McCann. “Mr. Kelly subsequently asked Mr. Mccann to support the foundation…[and] also encouraged Mr. Mccann to invite President Clinton to give several paid speeches, which he has done.” The take from those speeches: $1.5 million.
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