Clintons' charities got £50million UK foreign aid cash ("distasteful, unacceptable" say Brits)

Tens of millions of UK govt aid money has been siphoned through Clinton charities. At least £50 million...amid allegations that foreign governments' donations bought US influence. More than £20 million went to the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) in 2014, chaired by ex-President; daughter Chelsea is a board member. Since 2011, a total of £48.9 million went to CHAI ....a revelation Brits say is symptomatic that the UK's Dept for International Development (DfID) has too much money; that large amounts are simply handed to charities like the Clintons.....critics are concerned that British taxpayers end up subsidizing Clinton Foundation management costs.

CHAI says it improves the treatment of HIV/Aids, malaria and TB, mainly in Africa. But a new book "Clinton Cash" claimed that foreign governments and individuals received favourable treatment from the US government in return for donations to Clinton family charities. (Other allegations claim money raised for these causes was illegally diverted to the Clintons personally). The UK’s donations took off after then- Secy Andrew Mitchell met Mrs Clinton in 2010. In 2008, Gordon Brown addressed a Clinton Global Initiative meeting.

An examination of published payments made by DfID in 2014 reveals that CHAI received £20.2 million, with £4.8million spent up to the end of May 2015. In 2013, £13.1 million was handed over, with £9.6 million going to CHAI in 2012 and £1.1 million in 2011.Before this date there are no published figures. A Tory MP said: ‘...money being tossed away to ingratiate UK politicians with the rich and powerful....is distasteful and unacceptable.’

DfID offered no explanation for its decision to channel funds through the Clinton charities. The Clinton Foundation said: ‘. We can confirm that DfID donated to CHAI pre-2010 when it was part of the Clinton Foundation. CHAI is now an independent, affiliated entity.’

Its hard to think like a cunning Clinton...but I do believe you nailed it:

After the Clintons looted the Haiti earthquake fund, the Clintons went on to another island...

The cunning Clinton calculatedly made a big show of the Clinton
Foundation's "do-goodism" as earthquake-ravaged Haiti struggled to recover.

Bill and Canadian mining tycoon Frank Giustra in Haiti June 2014,
to launch the "Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership" Acceso Peanut
Enterprise Corp. (Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images)

REALITY CHECK Then-Secy Hillary supposedly gave Haiti $3.1 billion tax dollars for Earthquake Relief.

But Haitian-American protesters claim that American aid to Haiti was a cover-for foreign governments to funnel kickbacks of hundreds of millions of dollars to The Clinton Foundation.

For example, gold mining expert Giustra "gave" the Foundation $100 million....after Bill helped him make billions off uranium deals.

Hillary's brother mysteriously got a rare license to mine gold in Haiti.

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Canadian mining magnate Frank Giustra is one of the Clinton Foundation’s largest donors. Giustra's $100 million contributions go directly:

<><> (1) to the tax-exempt Clinton Foundation, and,

<><> (2) to the Canada-based "Clinton-Giustra Enterprise Partnership."

The "Clinton-Giustra Enterprise Partnership" in turn sends money to the Clinton Foundation...(according to Canadian tax records researched by "Clinton Cash" author Schweizer).

DATA Sources: Clinton Foundation, CGEP (Canada);
Canadian tax records; compiled by Alberto Cuadra and
Rosalind Helderman May 3 at 8:11 PM

ARTICLE LINK http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wealthy-canadian-helps-fund-the-clinton- foundation/2015/05/03/f855ea22-f1ea-11e4-90bc-afe06f530791_graphic.html

CHAI HDQ--BOSTON

Clinton Charities (and CHAI) Raked in Millions of Taxpayer Dollars
freebeacon.com ^ | 5/1/15 | Elizabeth Harrington

EXCERPT The Clinton Foundation and Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) its major health-related offshoot received over $7 million from the US government in recent years, according to an analysis of public records conducted by the Washington Free Beacon.

The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), chaired by Bill Clinton and run by the former president’s long-time associate Ira Magaziner, has received $6,010,898 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since 2010. CHAI, the biggest arm of the Clinton family’s charitable efforts, accounting for 60 percent of all spending, received $3,193,500 in fiscal years 2010, 2011, and 2012, according to federal contracts, during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. The organization received an additional $2,817,398 from the CDC in FYs 2013, 2014, and 2015.

The grants, including $200,000 awarded as recently as January, have gone to CHAI’s Global AIDS program, filed under “Global Health and Child Survival.” The CDC is listed as a $1-10 million contributor to CHAI, according to its donor list. CHAI, the Boston-based health arm of the Clinton Foundation has come under scrutiny for failing to disclose donations from foreign governments—in violation of a pledge Clinton made to the Obama administration before she assumed office as secretary of state.

A Reuters report found that the health initiative stopped making its annual disclosure in 2010 and that “no complete list of donors to the Clintons’ charities has been published” since. The group only recently published a partial donor list, which its spokesperson Maura Daley told Reuters “made up for” CHAI’s “oversight” of failing to meet the disclosure agreement.

When asked whether the CDC has any concern regarding its funding of CHAI or plans to provide grants to the organization in the future, an agency spokesperson told the Washington Free Beacon that it “can’t predict who will apply for and be awarded grants.”

“CDC and potential grantees must follow federal guidelines when applying for or awarding and monitoring grants,” said Shelly Diaz. “CHAI, like any other organization meeting federal requirements, may apply for CDC grants. They would also be expected to meet the same ongoing requirements for grantees (e.g. reports, audits, performance standards).”

CHAI received hundreds of millions from foreign nations between 2009 and 2014, including: the UK ($79.7 million), Australia ($58.6 million), Norway ($38.1 million), Canada ($12.1 million), Ireland ($11.7 million), Sweden ($7.2 million), and New Zealand ($1.2 million). A Boston Globe investigative report found that foreign donations “sharply accelerated” to CHAI when Hillary Clinton became secretary of state.

“Government grants, nearly all from foreign countries, doubled to $55.9 million in 2013 from $26.7 million in 2010, according to the records,” the report said.

The health initiative broke off into a nonprofit separate from the Clinton Foundation in 2010, though it is still chaired by Bill and Chelsea Clinton. The charities have remained intertwined. CHAI received a $2 million cash grant from the Clinton Foundation for “Haiti relief,” according to the group’s 2013 tax filing. It received a $4 million cash grant from the foundation for “program service” in 2012.

CHAI’s chief executive officer and vice chairman, Ira Magaziner, a 1960s student activist who tried to “convert a small American city into a model of municipal socialism,” is a long time associate of the Clintons. Magaziner was a Rhodes scholar with Bill Clinton in the late 1960s, a senior advisor in the Clinton White House, and the architect of Hillary Clinton’s failed health-care plan in the 1990s.

Magaziner formerly ran the foundation’s Clinton Climate Initiative while also running CHAI, though he ceded control over the environmental group late last year. He was paid $415,000 in salary and consulting fees from the Clinton Foundation in 2013, according to Politico. Bruce Lindsey, Bill Clinton’s longtime lawyer and chairman of the board of the Clinton Foundation, was the highest paid official at CHAI, paid $398,159 in salary and benefits in 2013 as a board member.

CHAI’s website says they are a “frugal” charity that focuses on saving lives, rather than “compensating ourselves excessively.”

--SNIP--LONG READ

ACADEMY AWARD-WORTHY--Obama's "I know nothing" act.

<><> He didn't know about this?

Circa 2010--Ex-Pres Clinton in Moscow having a laugh w/ Putin.
as strategic US uranium deposits were sold off to Russia for Big Bucks.

<><>Obama was oblivious to the Clintons jerking around US foreign policy?

<><> Obama knew nothing of Hillary and Sid Blumenthal's emails WRT Iran (the man Obama banned from US govt employment)?

<><> Obama knew nothing about the Clinton Foundation/slush fund buck-raking activities?

<><> Obama never noticed Bill Clinton trotting around the globe?

<><> Obama never noticed Clinton using "charity" to worm his way into the confidences of foreign dictators...but only those w/ untapped reserves
of gold, uranium, oil, and other valuable commodities?

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THE FACTS ARE THESE---WE, THE PEOPLE, NOTICED Hand-picked by Obama to run State, Hillary ran it like a shadow govt....w/ her husband taking notes WRT buck-raking opportunities available from Hillary's actions OR inaction.

Obama never noticed that Secy Hillary never e-v-e-r uttered a discouraging word e-v-e-r......as the Clinton Foundation sucked up hundred of millions of foreign dollars from shady characters. The avaricious Clintons devised hundreds of obscure programs to collect billions.....bragging about do-goodism, how the money was supposedly dispersed to "assist" endless charitable projects.

No question----Obama's protecting the Clintons---b/c they're his meal ticket. The Clintons deposit Obama's cut into his two (cough) "foundations." All of them are living happily ever after--getting rich on tax dollars and govt donations from dirt-poor countries.

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