Tag: Clinton Foundation

Foundation faceoff: The Trump Foundation vs. the Clinton Foundation

The following article by Glenn Kessler was posted on the Washington Post website June 27, 2018:

Donald Trump directed millions of dollars to his tax-exempt foundation. Here’s how. (Video: Peter Stevenson, Lee Powell/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

“Data doesn’t lie: Clinton Foundation was ‘slush fund’ while Hillary was a Senator/Secretary/Pres candidate. Trump Foundation helped people in need with 100% to charities, but @realDonaldTrump voluntarily shut his down. Yet who is the sleazy NY AG suing?!”
— Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale, in a tweet, June 14, 2018

The New York attorney general’s lawsuit against the Trump Foundation, alleging “persistently illegal conduct,” prompted this tweet by the manager of  the president’s reelection campaign. Continue reading “Foundation faceoff: The Trump Foundation vs. the Clinton Foundation”

FBI has been investigating the Clinton Foundation for months

The following article was posted on the Washington Post website January 5, 2018:

The FBI is again investigating the Clinton Foundation for potentially giving donors special political access and favors — either resuming or starting a new probe that was once considered dead, according to two officials familiar with the matter. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

The FBI has been investigating the Clinton Foundation for months, reviving a probe that was dialed back during the 2016 campaign amid tensions between Justice Department prosecutors and FBI agents about the politically charged case, according to people familiar with the matter.

The inquiry resumed about a year ago. Agents are now trying to determine if any donations made to the foundation were linked to official acts when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, these people said. The people did not identify what specific donations or interactions agents are scrutinizing.

Word of the investigation comes at a particularly fraught time for the Justice Department and FBI, as it tries to navigate several polarizing issues, including an ongoing special-counsel probe of President Trump and his associates, as well as demands from Republicans in Congress that Clinton be reinvestigated on a host of issues. Among those is the foundation case.

On Friday, Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) asked the Justice Department to investigate whether a key figure in the special-counsel probe, a former British spy who authored a dossier of allegations, may have lied to the FBI. Continue reading “FBI has been investigating the Clinton Foundation for months”

Justice Dept. to Weigh Inquiry Into Clinton Foundation

The following article by Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman was posted on the New York Times website November 13, 2017:

The Shootaring Canyon uranium mill in the desert outside Ticaboo, Utah, last month. Credit George Frey/Getty Images

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Monday that prosecutors were looking into whether a special counsel should be appointed to investigate political rivals President Trump has singled out for scrutiny, including Hillary Clinton.

The department, in a letter sent to the House Judiciary Committee, said the prosecutors would examine allegations that donations to the Clinton Foundation were tied to a 2010 decision by the Obama administrationto allow a Russian nuclear agency to buy Uranium One, a company that owned access to uranium in the United States, and other issues. Continue reading “Justice Dept. to Weigh Inquiry Into Clinton Foundation”