Posted on 05/07/2015 2:55:28 AM PDT by markomalley
Bill Clinton put the blame for his foundations foreign donor scandal on the accountant who filed its taxes in his Monday interview with NBC News.
There was no attempt to hide [donations], Clinton said from Kenya. The guy that filled out the forms made an error. The guy put it on the wrong form I cant explain why they didnt do itall I can do is fix it.
In the wake of the scandal surrounding the foundations foreign donors, chief executive officer Maura Pally said mistakes were made in tax filings and that multiple years of tax forms will likely have to be re-filed after an external review is completed.
It is unclear which accountant is responsible for the errors.
Laura Parello, the managing director of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) exempt organization tax services division, signed off as the paid preparer of the foundations most recent tax filing.
When asked how the accountant responsible for preparing the Clinton Foundations tax filing felt about being blamed by the former president for the current scandal, PWC said it was unable to comment due to company policy.
PWC also would not comment on whether it was conducting the current external review of the Clinton Foundations financial reports.
In addition to preparing the document, PWC also conducted an independent audit of the 2013 report and wrote that its opinion was that the information was presented fairly. The auditors note, however, says it is the foundations management that is responsible for presenting financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
The 2013 filing says Hillary Clinton spent 20 hours per week working for the foundation, in addition to five hours per week of work for related organizations.
The Clinton Foundation did not respond to a request for confirmation on whether she worked the number of hours stated in the audited document. Nor did they respond to a request for clarification on who Clinton was referring to as the guy who made an error.
Also signing off on each year of Clinton Foundation tax returns is Andrew Kessel, the foundations chief financial officer, a position he has held since 2004.
PWC was hired to handle the foundations taxes in 2013. Prior to that, BKD LLC in Little Rock, Arkansas, handled the foundations taxes since at least 2009.
BKD did not respond to a request for comment on the comments made by Clinton to NBC.
The Clinton Foundation failed to disclose 1,100 foreign donations it received.
the clinton dung heaps keeps shoveling it, and people eat that crap...
soon we will have obamma in muslim garb, saying he is not a muslim..
Anyone who works for the Clintons is nuts. They can expect to get left holding the bag if anything shady comes to light because the Clintons are never going to admit responsibility even if their fingerprints are on it and their are witnesses. The most baffling part is that any American still buys anything Hill and Bill are selling.
Bill Clinton trots out the old “mistakes were made” evasion again...
“Laura Parello, the managing director of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) exempt organization tax services division,”
Laura might want to ring up Linda Tripp.
Well, he can’t find a way to blame George Bush, so .
Hmm-hmm....
Fort Marcy park is going to fill up quick. Klintons can’t kill these people fast enough. Not like the old days is it bj?
Great advertising for PWC, better advertising for BDO.
Slick, just like Obama that has followed, never “HAD IT”.
Both have always been carried by the news media.
My bad, Sarbanes-Oaxley. Someone signed off on those financials and I demand the same prosecution any other CFO and CEO would receive.
I think I know an accountant that better not take a trip in a private airplane or visit Fort Marcy Park. The Clinton’s have their own methods of enforcing the maxim “Loose Lips Sink Ships”.
Fingers caught in the proverbial cookie jar
Everyone elses fault of course
LAUGHABLE feeble and another LIE.......
Just saw this from Dick Morris. He concurs with both of you, apillar, and LMAO:
What has happened to Bill Clinton?
By DICK MORRIS
Published on TheHillaryDaily.com on May 7, 2015
I hardly recognized the Bill Clinton I saw in the Cynthia McFadden interview. The brilliant, agile, articulate politician we’ve watched for the past twenty-five years was nowhere to be found. In his place was a slow-speaking, frail-looking, short-tempered elderly man with the voice of Bill Clinton.
What’s happened to him?
His responses seemed painfully labored, his thinking muddled. There was an obvious difficulty and frustration in finding the right words. He seemed befuddled — his free floating stops-and-starts were jarring as he seemed to start to speak of ideas as they darted across his mind and then instantly stop in mid-sentence. It was painful to watch, much like watching an old-timer ball player in his late sixties struggle to execute plays he once did automatically.
The Bill Clinton in Africa appeared uncharacteristically rattled, unusually hesitant, particularly in the original video released on Monday morning. By evening, things had been cleaned up a bit.
Was it just exhaustion? Or has Bill Clinton unplugged lost his magic?
No one can stay on message better than Bill Clinton, but he was all over the place in the interview. Whatever message he had planned went out the window. He must have been prepped to answer McFadden’s question about the appearances of making $500,000 per speech. He had memorized some statistics about the global reach of the Clinton Foundation — that’s always been easy for him. But he fumbled badly when asked unscripted, but easily anticipated questions. At first, he seemed to be groping for the words to say that making money is the American way. Then, sensing how inappropriate that would sound, he shifted to the ridiculous argument: “I gotta pay my bills.”
Would anyone believe that he was living from $500,000 paycheck to the next $500,000 paycheck?
This certainly was not a prepared sound bite. And most likely his claim that everybody makes mistakes on their taxes — as the Foundation did for seven years — wasn’t polled before he threw it out.
The former president seemed to hide behind the optics of needy children as he justified his massive income. But all the arguments about how giving money to the Foundation helps poor people fall apart when we realize how much of the money goes into his pocket and her pocketbook.
Even in his interactions with the disadvantaged children that his Foundation helps, Bill Clinton moved slowly, glowing in a great-grandfatherly way at their accomplishments and accepting their thanks, a half smile implanted surgically on his face.
The biggest — and saddest — impression that comes across is one of extreme frailty. This in a big man once so filled with vigor. At one point in 1995, in frustration, I seized his arms and shook him, trying to shake out the sense of gloom and defeat that enveloped him after losing Congress. Now I’d fear that he’d fall apart if I shook too hard.
No longer do his arms chap at the air as he makes his points. Now gravity and their own weight sort of bring them down. He doesn’t stride anymore. He shuffles. He makes weird faces as his rage slips through. He’s not on top of his game.
The former president is 68— that’s not so old. But his health issues and his reduced stamina make him appear so much older.
Maybe he just needs to rest. And maybe his rage at the accusations about his Foundation sent him reeling. But whatever was behind his atrocious performance, it didn’t help his wife’s cause. Not at all.
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