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Taxpayer tab for Clinton Inc.: $16 million
Critics for years have questioned why taxpayers need to support former presidents when they and their families can reap huge paydays, like the then-record $15 million book advance paid to Clinton for his 2004 memoir. But scrutiny of the act — and of the vast financial empire built by the Clintons — is poised to intensify as questions mount about the family’s commingling of personal, political, government and foundation business.
Clinton “is allocated funding for an office and for attendant costs (rent, utilities and salaries and benefits for staff),” foundation officials said in an emailed statement. “His office is allocated $96,000 per year for personnel salaries. GSA does not dictate the number of staff for whom the allocation is used.”
Of the $16 million requested under the former presidents fund, nearly $3 million has been slated for staff salary and benefits, according to GSA budgeting documents.
They include Doug Band, the former White House aide who previously helped run the foundation’s Clinton Global Initiative, and senior foundation official Laura Graham, whose foundation salary increased from $74,000 in 2005 to more than $180,000 in 2013, according to tax filings.
Among the federal payments revealed are $947,000 for communications-related costs and “equipment” — an expense category which, according to a 2014 Congressional Research Service report, could include everything from furniture to “information technology hardware or software.” Although the Clintons footed the bill for the server used in their private email address, taxpayers indirectly have footed the bill to protect the server.
So these corrupt elitists are using tax payer money to pay their charity employees salaries. Hmmm
Critics for years have questioned why taxpayers need to support former presidents when they and their families can reap huge paydays, like the then-record $15 million book advance paid to Clinton for his 2004 memoir. But scrutiny of the act — and of the vast financial empire built by the Clintons — is poised to intensify as questions mount about the family’s commingling of personal, political, government and foundation business.
Clinton “is allocated funding for an office and for attendant costs (rent, utilities and salaries and benefits for staff),” foundation officials said in an emailed statement. “His office is allocated $96,000 per year for personnel salaries. GSA does not dictate the number of staff for whom the allocation is used.”
Of the $16 million requested under the former presidents fund, nearly $3 million has been slated for staff salary and benefits, according to GSA budgeting documents.
They include Doug Band, the former White House aide who previously helped run the foundation’s Clinton Global Initiative, and senior foundation official Laura Graham, whose foundation salary increased from $74,000 in 2005 to more than $180,000 in 2013, according to tax filings.
Among the federal payments revealed are $947,000 for communications-related costs and “equipment” — an expense category which, according to a 2014 Congressional Research Service report, could include everything from furniture to “information technology hardware or software.” Although the Clintons footed the bill for the server used in their private email address, taxpayers indirectly have footed the bill to protect the server.
So these corrupt elitists are using tax payer money to pay their charity employees salaries. Hmmm
