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Posted on 03/09/2025 6:07:37 AM PDT by Libloather
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., has emerged into the spotlight amid a new ethics complaint due to his voting in favor of laws that ultimately funded millions in grants to a nonprofit climate group that pays his wife's consulting firm.
But who is his wife, Sandra Whitehouse?
Whitehouse earned her bachelor's degree at Yale University, similar to her now-senator husband, according to her LinkedIn page.
After that, she earned her master's degree at the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, studying there from 1986 to 1994.
She and Sheldon Whitehouse married in 1986 at the St. George's School Chapel in Newport, Rhode Island, according to a newspaper announcement.
The couple live in Newport and have two children, Molly and Alexander, as well as two grandchildren, according to the senator's website.
Throughout her career, Whitehouse has advised nonprofits, nongovernmental organizations, a state agency, a legislative body and private companies, according to a biography from the Atlantic Council, where she was a nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.
Her husband was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006. She first began working for the group at the center of the latest ethics complaint roughly two years later, in 2008.
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Ocean Conservancy has notably received more than $14.2 million in federal grants since 2008, according to USASpending.gov.
According to tax documents, Ocean Conservancy (NGO) has paid Whitehouse a total of $2,686,800 either directly or through her firm since 2010.
This was cited in last month’s complaint to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics Chairman James Lankford, R-Okla., and Vice Chairman Chris Coons, D-Del., from ethics watchdog the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT).
******************* Federally funded Non profit NGOs are very profitable for those who get paid and/or bribed by them. For not doing much work at all.
It might if she was also raising a family.
Are you implying that that tiny little grift is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. I am shocked! Shocked I tell you! It sounds like Sandra Whitehouse was paid $2.6 million over eight years, or roughly $325,000 per year, mid-level NGO trough feeder dough.
Another site credits her with a Ph.D. It took me about five years to finish an MSEE nights while working and assisting a very able family-raiser.
Indeed it does. This Washington DC think-tank is NOT a charity.
Source: Atlantic CouncilThis is outright, in-you-face grift and, coutresy of politicians, "legal.""Full Filing" for fiscal year ending Dec. 2023
Part I Summary --
Line 19 -- Revenue less expenses -- $ - 7,720,150
Part VII, Line 1a -- CEO Kempe -- $ 809,711 + $ 98,502
Part VII, Line 1b -- Directors' salaries $ 4,358,523 plus $ 410,986 in benefits
Part IX, Line 7 -- Other salaries and wages - $ 26,734,683
Line 9 -- Other employee benefits -- $ 1,608,339Line 11 g "Other" -- $ 10,097,343
Functional expenses for this lobbying group EXCEEDED income in this calendar year.
They laugh all the way to the bank.
Meet Sandra Whitehouse, a future McDonald’s cashier
When DOGE and my hero DataRepublican get done using AI to fully trace the spending, we’re going to finally have PROOF that probably 2/3 of all congress critters have been doing this stuff for decades.
How did Pocahontas get worth 70 million?!? Etc.
They’re ALL in on it, which is why Elon gives them apoplexy.
I was actually referring to the Obozo’s. The ultimate grifters.
How much is their house worth in Newport?
I got your point, my post was dripping with sarcasm. We are in violent agreement.
Whitehouse is railroad money going back to the 19th century.
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Every time I see and hear him I automatically think......Charles Nelson Reilly.
Lots of low hanging fruit like Sheldon Whitehouse ... democrats didn't brother to be 'that careful' because they thought their graft and theft would be protected forever. Trump and Musk won't allow that...
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Throughout her career, Whitehouse has advised nonprofits, nongovernmental organizations, a state agency, a legislative body and private companies, according to a biography from the Atlantic Council, where she was a nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.
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Sounds like entire career of grifting.
Lol — true.
They are thieves, and should be treated as such.
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