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Scandal Without End: Is The Clinton Foundation A Fraud?

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Corruption: The Clinton Foundation's questionable money dealings 
have raised eyebrows for years. Now, a letter circulating in 
Congress alleges that the Clinton family's supposed do-gooder 
foundation is in fact a "lawless, 'pay-to-play' enterprise that 
has been operating under a cloak of philanthropy for years."

Those are pretty tough words for a former president and his 
wife, who happens to be the leading candidate to be our next 
president. But the congressional letter, which the Daily Caller 
News Foundation got its hands on, was written by Republican Rep. 
Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., who plans on asking the FBI, IRS and 
Federal Trade Commission to launch a "public corruption" 
investigation.

Is it warranted, or just politics? It sure looks like the 
former. As Blackburn's letter says, there is a "pattern of 
dealing that personally enriched the Clintons at the expense of 
American foreign policy."

Blackburn cites the for-profit education business Laureate 
Education, which paid Bill Clinton some $16.5 million to serve 
part-time as "honorary chancellor" starting in 2010, a year 
after Hillary became secretary of state. Laureate, for its part, 
gave the Clinton Foundation some $1 million to $5 million. 
Nothing illegal about that, per se.

However, the Daily Tennesseean reports that Blackburn's letter 
also details how "the International Youth Fund, whose board 
members include Laureate's founder, Douglas Baker, received more 
than $55 million in grants from the U.S. Agency for 
International Development while Hillary Clinton was secretary of 
state." AID is a part of the State Department.

Then there's Uranium One. Hillary Clinton, the Daily Tennesseean 
notes, "was one of several Obama administration officials who 
approved the sale of uranium to the Russian-operated company, 
whose chairman also has donated $2.35 million to the Clinton 
Foundation." A number of other people involved in the deal also 
gave money to the Clintons.
"The appearance of 'pay-to-play' transactions involving Laureate 
and Uranium One also raises serious allegations of criminal 
conduct requiring further examination," Blackburn's letter says.

That's not all of the questionable activities.

As we noted back in May, the Clinton Foundation took in some 
$100 million in donations from a variety of Gulf sheikhs and 
billionaires who no doubt expected to reap political benefits 
from a future Hillary Clinton presidency, with Bill serving not 
just as first gentleman in the White House but also possibly as 
bagman. Among donors dumping bags of cash on the Clintons 
include Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab 
Emirates.

Lost in the shuffle is Bill Clinton's special "business 
partnership" from 2003 to 2008 with Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid 
al-Maktoum, the strongman ruler of Dubai. That deal netted 
Clinton some $15 million in "guaranteed payments," tax records 
show. And then there's the $30 million delivered to the Clintons 
by two Mideast foundations and four billionaire Saudis. For the 
betterment of humankind, no doubt.

As national security analyst and writer Patrick Poole said in 
May, "These regimes are buying access. ... There are massive 
conflicts of interest. It's beyond comprehension."

It took Wall Street financial analyst and investment advisor 
Charles Ortel -- whom the Sunday Times of London once described 
as "one of the finest analysts of financial statements on the 
planet" -- to untangle the mess in a series of ongoing reports. 
Ortel alleges that contribution disclosures by the foundation 
often don't fit with what donors' own records say -- big red 
flag.

"This," Ortel summed up, "is a charity fraud."

As a reminder, this isn't just some political vendetta. As far 
back as 2013, an alarmed New York Times warned that the 
foundation had become "a sprawling concern, supervised by a 
rotating board of old Clinton hands, vulnerable to distraction 
and threatened by conflicts of interest."

It turns out that's a gross understatement.

Testifying last week to Congress, FBI chief James Comey called 
Hillary Clinton "extremely careless" about her use of a private 
email server while secretary of state. But, curiously, he 
refused additional comment "on the existence or nonexistence of 
any other ongoing investigations." This needs to be disclosed. 
Americans deserve to know whether the person they're likely to 
put into the White House this November is merely a misunderstood 
career public servant -- or a pocket-lining career criminal.

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