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The Clinton Global Initiative is closing its doors for good
The Clinton Foundation announced it’s laying off 22 staffers on the Clinton Global Initiative, keeping with a plan to deal with the negative spotlight put on the organization during former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
The layoffs will take effect April 15, the Clinton Foundation said in a filing with the New York Department of Labor Thursday, citing the discontinuation of the Clinton Global Initiative. The move is part of a plan put in motion ahead of the presidential election in order to offset a storm of criticism regarding pay-to-play allegations during Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.
This makes sense. If Hillary won, as the Clintons expected, even they would understand the problem of maintaining the CGI while she served as president. If Hillary lost, contributions would likely dry up.
Apparently, they have — a trend that predates the election.
Apparently not. If nothing else, these developments are indicators of precisely what many suspected all along. The Clintons were, no doubt, doing some good work through their foundation, but it was also a convenient magnet attracting massive amounts of cash and influence. And the people lining up to empty their coffers into the Clintons’ hands could have sent their donations anywhere, but they chose the Clinton Foundation because it put them on good terms with a powerful American dynasty which was widely expected to take back the White House. Once Hillary Clinton’s future plans for power had fallen to ruin, the enthusiasm for giving seems to have begun to wane almost immediately.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/12435/clinton-foundation-shuts-down-global...
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Chelsea Clinton 'used Foundation resources to fund her 2010 wedding to Marc Mezvinsky', according to new Wikileaks emails
A new chain of Wikileaks emails alleges Chelsea Clinton used resources from the Clinton Foundation for her wedding to Marc Mezvinsky
An email from Doug Band, a former top aide to president Bill Clinton and a former Clinton Global Initiative board member, complains about Chelsea
Says she was conducting internal investigating of money within the Clinton Foundation and told George W Bush's daughters this information
Band says this is conflict of interest because Chelsea allegedly used resources for her wedding
It is estimated the cost of Chelsea Clinton's wedding was about $3 million, but it is unclear what Foundation resources might have been used
Other emails from Band show him slamming Mezvinsky and saying Chelsea Clinton 'goes to daddy' to get her way on plans
: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3910746/Chelsea-Clinton-used-Fou...
Chelsea Clinton used her family foundation’s cash to pay for her wedding, living expenses and taxes on gifts of cash from her parents, according to a bombshell email made public Sunday.
Doug Band, formerly a top aide to President Bill Clinton, griped about the former first daughter’s spending in a Jan. 4, 2012, email released by WikiLeaks.
“The investigation into her getting paid for campaigning, using foundation resources for her wedding and life for a decade, taxes on money from her parents…,” Band wrote to John Podesta, now Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman.
http://nypost.com/2016/11/06/chelsea-clinton-used-foundation-to-help-pay...
The Clinton Foundation was used for the Clintons to provide quid pro quo deals to their donors. Some examples include:
The Clinton Foundation used the Haiti earthquake to provide "aid" to the Haitians that was really nothing more than payoffs to Clinton donors that did very little to help the Haitians, as Dinesh D'Souza explains here.
Clinton Foundation donor Joyce Aboussie asked top Clinton aide Huma Abedin in June 2009 for Peabody Energy, a coal company Aboussie consulted for, to have a meeting with Clinton, and Abedin responded: "I hope we can make something work."
Also in 2009, U2 lead singer Bono, also a donor to the Clinton Foundation, wanted "to do a linkup with the International Space Station on every show during the tour this year," according to newly released emails. Abedin and Clinton Foundation director Doug Band didn't know who to talk to in NASA about it, but as Politico notes, U2's most recent tour did feature "a video from astronauts aboard the International Space Station."
The Clinton Foundation gave $2 million to one of Bill Clinton's special friends, as The Daily Wire reported here.
Hillary Clinton's State Department approved of a deal that gave Russia 20 percent of U.S. uranium reserves because it benefited Clinton Foundation donors.
Clinton's State Department also approved of "$165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation," including "Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar," according to International Business Times.