Experts Doubt Clinton Foundation Will Survive
By Richard Pollock Published on November 10, 2016
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Clinton Foundation officials now face a
potentially devastating barrage of investigations by
Congress,
federal regulatory agencies,
state attorneys general and perhaps a probe by
a special prosecutor, according federal law enforcement and
philanthropy regulation experts.
The months ahead could determine what kind of future, if any, the Clinton Foundation can have as Congress and the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump take what is certain to be a tough look the
ethical and legal issues that have swirled for years around the troubled charity.
Former President Bill and Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, have been
accused repeatedly of turning the foundation into a tool for personal enrichment by using it to market official government favors, access and influence to wealthy individuals, corporations and foreign governments....
...A long-running FBI investigation that now encompasses
five field offices continues to probe
massive amounts of materials made public via WikiLeaks, and the
thousands of private emails sent to and from Clinton during her tenure as the chief U.S. diplomat via a
home-brew server located in her New York home.
A former senior law enforcement official told The Daily Caller News Foundation Tuesday that
all 10 FBI agents in the Little Rock field office who are assigned to public corruption cases are
working full-time on the foundation. The Clinton Foundation was founded in 1997 in the Arkansas capital for the
sole purpose of building and operating the Clinton Presidential Library. New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Washington, D.C., are the
other FBI offices in the probe.
Former U.S. Attorney Joseph DiGenova, who pursued many
corruption cases, told The DCNF, "there is
a mountain of credible evidence that the foundation was being improperly run, had not filed appropriate filings with the IRS and state agencies.
It's clearly involved in a bribery conspiracy scandal with the Department of State."...
..."I think we need to be concerned that between
2009 to 2013, it appears the
Clinton Foundation donors were given special access to the State Department. Somebody needs to look at
every transaction and see if it was used for an improper purpose and potentially illegal unethical purposes," Whitaker told The DCNF. "They obviously need to
get their house in order, to be more transparent about where the money is coming from, where the money's going, and
not try to play shenanigans with their reporting to agencies."...
..."Whatever happened because of their
many flagrant legal violations that they
perpetrated over decades, the original mission ought to carry on as before," Ortel said. "It's time to make an example of a presidential charity gone badly wrong. You have to
hold them accountable and send a clear message that this does not happen again."
Leslie Lenkowsky, a nationally recognized
expert on charities and philanthropic groups, told The DCNF that if the Clinton Foundation cannot compete successfully on a level playing field with other charities, it will go out of business.
"With the end of the Clinton political dynasty, at least for the time being,
the Clinton Foundation is going to have obtain support the old fashion way, they're going to have to earn it," Lenkowsky said.
"It was very difficult to really find evidence of accomplishments. It should be closed down if
it can't demonstrate that it's doing good stuff."