WP,pg1: Clintons' Charity Not Listed On Senate Disclosure Forms

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Clintons' Charity Not Listed On Senate Disclosure Forms
By John Solomon and Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, February 27, 2007; Page A01


Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) at a recent book-signing. The charitable foundation she operates with former president Bill Clinton has enabled the couple to write off $5 million from their taxable income since 2001. (By Jason Decrow -- Associated Press)

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former president Bill Clinton have operated a family charity since 2001, but she failed to list it on annual Senate financial disclosure reports on five occasions.

The Ethics in Government Act requires members of Congress to disclose positions they hold with any outside entity, including nonprofit foundations. Hillary Clinton has served her family foundation as treasurer and secretary since it was established in December 2001, but none of her ethics reports since then have disclosed that fact.

The foundation has enabled the Clintons to write off more than $5 million from their taxable personal income since 2001, while dispensing $1.25 million in charitable contributions over that period.

Clinton's spokesman said her failure to report the existence of the family foundation and the senator's position as an officer was an oversight. Her office immediately amended her Senate ethics reports to add that information late yesterday after receiving inquiries from The Washington Post....

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Hillary Clinton's decision to amend her Senate disclosures comes after several other high-profile politicians came under scrutiny for omitting family foundations from their financial disclosure reports, including former Senate majority leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). They amended their disclosures, and neither was penalized....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/26/AR2007022601542.html

[Kagemusha]

1. Well, it's pretty hard to call this some darkly held secret.

It's the fraud and corruption factor that gets er.. supposedly.. punished by Congress, not oversights of reporting very obvious associations.

[More Than A Feeling]

2. John Solomon only plays a reporter on TV.

He has a penchant for going after Harry Reid for no apparent reason. I wouldn't believe a thing he reported, even if it was about someone I did not like.

[Kagemusha]

3. Aaaa! I forgot he migrated to the Washington Post!

I thought I was safe because I saw it wasn't an AP article!

So he's up to his old tricks AGAIN. Doesn't he get tired of this!? Is this the only kind of story the man can do!?

[merwin]

4. It takes a special kind of reporter to go after actual legal charitable work.

She's such an evil monster for not reporting GOOD deeds on her ethics disclosure.

[sandnsea]

5. This is what Jack Abramoff did

Manipulated nonprofits. I'm not making excuses for Hillary. She knows better than this, you have to report this stuff. Doesn't matter who you are.