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In reply to the discussion: Colbert: Bill Clinton Explains Why Sanders & Trump Are Doing So Well (Tuesday) [View all]Divernan
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Exploiting human suffering and tragedy to finance their boutique, pardon-the-expression, "charity" and their One Percent life style.
Read the whole link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/30/us/politics/an-award-for-bill-clinton-came-with-500000-for-his-foundation.html?_r=0
to get a detailed, stomach-turning accounting of how the Clinton Family Foundation blatantly operates as a (totally unnecessary) middle man to skim off money.
The Clinton Foundation had rejected the Happy Hearts Fund invitation more than once, until there was a thinly veiled solicitation and then the offer of an ($500,000) honorarium. She booked Cipriani 42nd Street, which greeted guests with Bellini cocktails on silver trays. She flew in Sheryl Crow with her band and crew for a 20-minute set. She special-ordered heart-shaped floral centerpieces, heart-shaped chocolate parfaits, heart-shaped tiramisù and, because orange is the charitys color, an orange carpet rather than a red one. She imported a Swiss auctioneer and handed out orange rulers to serve as auction paddles, playfully threatening to use hers to spank the highest bidder for an Ibiza vacation. The gala cost $363,413. But the real splurge? Bill Clinton.
The former president of the United States agreed to accept a lifetime achievement award at the June 2014 event after Ms. Nemcova offered a $500,000 contribution to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. The donation, made late last year after the foundation sent the charity an invoice, amounted to almost a quarter of the evenings net proceeds enough to build 10 preschools in Indonesia.
Happy Hearts collaborated more expeditiously in Haiti with the Digicel Foundation, whose founder, the Irish billionaire Denis OBrien, is a multimillion-dollar supporter of the Clinton Foundation and whose parent telecommunications company benefited from grants from Mrs. Clintons State Department.
Digicel also made a commitment at the 2011 meeting to build schools; it was a formality, though, as Digicel had already taken the lead in Haiti in that realm. It has built 150 schools there over the past seven years; Happy Hearts has built seven, six of them joint or side-by-side ventures with Digicel.
One of those schools, operated by the Haitian group Prodev, was featured in the Clinton Foundations most recent annual report as built through a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action. The Clinton Foundations sole direct contribution to the school was a grant for an Earth Day celebration and tree-planting activity.
Outside Cipriani, protesters, mostly Haitian-Americans frustrated with the earthquake reconstruction effort, stood behind barricades holding signs. Clinton, where is the money? they chanted. In whose pockets?