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Clinton pictured above with ACORN founder Wade Rathke (found by tina07). The tax-exempt Clinton Foundation had just donated $250,000 to ACORN. The tax-exempt Clinton Foundation provided $275,000 in grants for ACORNS’S "Katrina Benefits Access project" and ACORN'S "Operation Hope Project; Restore Hope." The tax-exempt Clinton Foundation also helped secure private sector commitments for ACORN. =============================================== REFERENCE The IRS has pinpointed tax-exempt "foundations and charities" as the locus classicus for tax evasion and money laundering. The BIGGEST tax-exempt fraud --- a tax-exempt foundation writing checks to a tax-exempt charity (the way crooks look "altruistic" as they siphon off tax-free money...

When Hillary Clinton went before the Senate Foreign Committee for hearings on her nomination for Secretary of State, a few senators raised the issue of her husband’s role as operator of the Clinton Foundation. This outfit receives large contributions from foreign governments like Saudi Arabia. The obvious concern was over the potential for at least the appearance of a conflict of interest when the Secretary of State deals with governments that are forking over money to the fiefdom of the Secretary of State’s husband. A few weeks into Ms. Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State, her husband’s interests may already...

More Than a Good Feeling Why are so many oligarchs, royal families, and special-interest groups giving money to the Clinton Foundation? By Christopher Hitchens Bill Clinton speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative in Hong Kong Here is a thought experiment that does not take very much thought. Picture, if you will, Hillary Clinton facing a foreign-policy conundrum. With whom will she discuss it first and most intently: with her president or her husband? (I did tell you that this wouldn't be difficult.) Here's another one: Will she be swayed in her foreign-policy decisions by electoral considerations focusing on the year...

What I've been tying to discern about the Clinton Foundation is why -- aside from the annual fancy party in New York -- foreign governments, other foundations and charities have given money to fund what they already do themselves. There were four United Way contributions, one from the national outfit, three from local branches. Since when is the Clinton Foundation one of the approved charities of the United Way? Then there are more serious questions about operating charities. What was the purpose of a contribution by the National Opera of Paris? Or of hospitals themselves in strained circumstances, like Maimonides...

WASHINGTON – Former President Bill Clinton's foundation has raised at least $41 million from Saudi Arabia and other foreign governments that his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton may end up negotiating with as the next secretary of state. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia gave $10 million to $25 million to the William J. Clinton Foundation, a nonprofit created by the former president to finance his library in Little Rock, Ark., and charitable efforts to reduce poverty and treat AIDS. Other foreign government givers include Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei, Oman, Italy and Jamaica.

Barack Obama is set to meet Bill Clinton at the former president's foundation headquarters in Harlem on Thursday in their first face-to-face meeting since Mr Obama defeated Hillary Clinton in the primary elections in June. The meeting comes as John McCain, the Republican candidate, moved into the lead in the polls for the first time in the campaign. Mr Clinton, the former two-term president, will offer advice to the Democratic nominee about how to deal with the coming 57 days before the election, amid Democratic worries about Mr Obama's shaky numbers in the polls. Yesterday a Gallup-USA Today poll gave...

Senator Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton plan to meet for lunch on Thursday at Mr. Clinton’s offices in Harlem, their first extended face-to-face encounter after more than a year of tense relations, aides said Sunday. The current plan is for Mr. Obama and Mr. Clinton to have lunch at the Clinton Foundation headquarters on West 125th Street in Harlem with one close aide each. There have been discussions about the men possibly then doing a walking tour of the neighborhood, but that has not been settled. Thursday is the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and...

Clinton Foundation mulls world's largest solar project in Gujarat Maulik Pathak & Ashish Amin / Ahmedabad August 8, 2008, US-based foundation to set up Rs 20,000-crore Integrated SolarCity. This could well be the world’s largest solar power project at a single location if all goes as planned. The US-based Clinton Foundation is in talks with the Gujarat government to set up an ‘Integrated Solar City’ project with a capacity to generate a 5,000 Mw over a period of time. The project, tagged as one of the largest foreign direct investment (FDI) into the state, will also be a landmark project...

Hillary Clinton is coming under growing pressure to be more open about the sources of her family’s wealth after she revealed that she had been forced to loan her cash-strapped campaign $5 million. Hillary Clinton's advisers 'in a state of panic' In pictures: Michelle Obama Trail Mix: Chelsea Clinton "pimped out" Critics are claiming that her husband Bill Clinton’s lucrative financial dealings since leaving the White House may expose her campaign to conflicts of interest, and are calling for her to publish the full details of her earnings and assets. advertisementSen Clinton has made more than $9 million from her...

MASERU, Lesotho (AP) - A Dutch aid worker with the Clinton Foundation was shot to death at the house of Lesotho's trade and industry minister, police said Saturday. Samuella Jacobina Verwey, 36, her husband and two American aid workers arrived late Friday at Minister Mpho Malie's house. As they left the car, heavy gunfire erupted, police spokesman Pheelo Mphana said. The minister and his wife were in neighboring South Africa at the time. The whereabouts of the four guards at Malie's residence were unknown. The aid workers were staying on the property. Mphana said 24 AK-47 assault rifle shells were...

Former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation failed to meet at least six of 19 accountability standards established by the Better Business Bureau. A report by the watchdog group said the Clinton Foundation lacks policies requiring performance reviews for its chief executive officer and for the foundation as a whole. Also, the organization’s annual reports and Web site do not contain detailed financial statements or information about the group’s board of directors, the New York Sun reports. "There are a number of concerns here,” said Bennett Weiner, head of the Better Business Bureau’s charity evaluation service. "We didn’t get a copy...

YA GOT TROUBLE RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITYEx-prez Bill Clinton apparently has been doing a lot of talking, but hasn't much to show for it beyond a fatter wallet. And that has people at his William J. Clinton Foundation (which is separate from his library foundation) a bit worried. The foundation is little over a year old and its stated mission is to focus on international humanitarian work, public service education and racial and religious conflict resolution. But donors are wondering where the money they've given the organization is going. "The only reconciling he's been doing seems to be with...