Posted on 04/26/2015 11:42:18 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Clinton Foundation's acting chief on Sunday acknowledged the organization had made missteps, but defended its transparency efforts amid Hillary Clinton's nascent presidential campaign.
"[W]e made mistakes, as many organizations of our size do, but we are acting quickly to remedy them, and have taken steps to ensure they don't happen in the future," Pally wrote in the lengthy statement, which noted the organization would likely refile tax forms and touched on newly scrutinized donations.
The foundation said last week it would refile several years of tax returns after acknowledging it inadequately disclosed to the Internal Revenue Service foreign donations from 2010 to 2013.
Responding to a review that found the errors, Pally wrote, "Our total revenue was accurately reported on each year's form – our error was that government grants were mistakenly combined with other donations."
She also sought to shed light on the foundation's complicated structure, which includes 11 different initiatives, including the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, which focuses on alleviating poverty around the world.
Pally wrote that the Clinton Foundation receives funding for specific projects from an independent Canadian charity of the same name, set up by Canadian mining investor Frank Giustra, who along with Ian Telfer (through a family foundation), donated millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation.
Those donations were scrutinized in a New York Times report last week, given that Hillary Clinton in her role as secretary of State signed off on a Russian nuclear agency's acquisition of uranium mining assets in the U.S. in which the men were investors.
"This is hardly an effort on our part to avoid transparency," Pally wrote of the donations not listed publicly, noting that, unlike in the U.S., Canadian law prohibits charities from disclosing donors without their prior consent.
Pally is acting chief of the organization until former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala assumes leadership of the Clinton's namesake organization, whom the foundation announced as its pick last month.
Hillary Clinton stepped down from the foundation's board before launching her presidential bid, while husband Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea, its vice chair, remain on the board.
"Without question the Foundation’s accomplishments stand on their own," Pally wrote, detailing some of the organization's work since it was launched 15 years ago by former President Clinton.
"As the Foundation’s impact has grown, so too has its commitment to transparency," Pally added, noting it recently limited foreign donations and increased the frequency of donor disclosures.
I HATE this GD ‘transparency’ crap. If I hear it again I’m gonna go O’F’nPaque.
hillary is beating bill with huma’s high heel right now.
You’re right! That’s an important distinction. Thanks for the correction. :-)
You’re welcome. Wouldn’t want mistakes to be made, would we? :-)
Didn’t the lame excuse “Mistakes were made” originate with these clintoon criminals? Oh, I hope Justice soon finds this whole family of criminals.
The entire sleazy Democratic party ought to be covered in the gore from this butchering.
No, that would be a mistake.
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Gee! Why pay taxes on speaking fees, when you can skim off millions tax free??”
I think you’ve got it figured out. The whole thing is a tax scam.
I have been complaining about the misuse of American nonprofits laws here on Free Republic for over a decade. Ten years ago there were about 500,000 nonprofits in America, today there are about 1.5 million. Many of them are in business to enrich their handlers, push a political position or put tax paying companies out of business.
What the Clinton’s have done is not new, Jimmy Carter has been doing the same basic thing for decades.
We need to trash the nonprofit laws in America and rewrite them such that the only entities that pay no taxes are those that feed, house or clothe humans.
FYI, in most countries around the world nonprofits do not exist, if someone wants to do good deeds they pay for them and the taxpayer does not subsidize them. Example? In Mexico the concept of “charity” is unknown. There are no nonprofits in Mexico other than the American ones who teach Mexicans that there are idiots that will give them free stuff. That’s why the Mexicans started coming here in the first place. Free stuff.
It depends on what the meaning of ‘mistake’ is. In their world mistake = felony
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