Knowing the Clintons, you’d have to dig down to the transaction level to find out what is really going on. It is highly probable they improperly book expenses.
I was in corporate MIS for many years, and you can call any expense anything. When I first started working in data processing, we had an account call ‘EDP supplies’ with a huge amount of money. So, we’re the EDP department, so anything we want to buy is an ‘EDP supply’, right? It is if the head of operations will sign you expense form!
So the auditors would have to look at the actual individual expenses, and ask what they were really for. This is not easy if the original receipts or invoices were destroyed or cannot be found. With electronic records, anything can easily be altered to something else.
And yes, a lot of the ‘EDP supplies’ we consumed at the steak house across the street were really delicious!
“It is highly probable they improperly book expenses”
I would be very surprised if they did not.
To help gain perspective both of the Clinton's families are Irish Traveler Gypsies. They are members of a secretive clan of ancient ancestry that is xenophobic about outsiders and view the world as ripe for picking. They are a criminal enterprise.
Travelers arrived in the U.S. in the 19th century, continuing to ply the trades they had pursued back home: tinkers and horse traders. Some say their way of life goes back thousands of years, perhaps even linking them to the lost tribes of Israel.
They speak their own language, called “cant” when they don’t want to be understood by non-Travelers. In time they changed their line of business to more closely match what the modern world demanded, moving into home repair instead of mending kettles. But they have also become walking Swiss Army knives of various grifts and scams.
Some are shoplifters, working in teams to have one create a distraction while another Traveler flees with the goods. Others will tell a McDonalds manager of a wedding ring lost in a trash can, then when it isn’t found there shake him down for a few hundred dollars instead of calling the police and making an insurance claim. One had her own brother duct tape her to a bed and beat her in a Disney World hotel and almost succeeded in suing for $3 million dollars. She went to prison.
Back in their walled Villages, their toddlers wear makeup and sequined gowns and are often married off before they reach their teens. Parents of girls at times pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to wed their daughters to the sons of particularly successful fathers. Of course “success” is defined on the Travelers’ terms, and often includes a string of charges and convictions in just as many different jurisdictions. Education is typically over by the sixth grade, and boys are often driving on phony drivers’ licenses when they are fourteen.