More high crimes and misdemeanors

In addition to election law violation, emailgate, pay to play, there are a more violations in the wikileaks release. In a normal country excepting gifts from a foreign government should end your career, routinely breaking election law should get you in jail, and if the president signs a memorandum of understanding he should be mad and do something when the other party violates the understanding. Here I mention the number of scandals beyond the one the FBI is investigating that are almost entirely not reported in the news.

On December 12, 2008, the Clinton Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding with the White House. Here is the signed agreement. Bruce Lindsey, chairman of the Clinton Foundation, and Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s top aide, signed the document.

The key passages here are this:

No conflicts of interest. And this:

No foreign donors. No conflict of interest. Yet Isis funder Qatar gave Hillary $1 million in her pocket. As we now know, the principle governments supporting Isis gave many times (Here and here for Isis and here is a bribe and another and another and one more. Even her own campaign people don’t think she knows what to do or say about Isis.) Many nations gave. Many foreign companies gave. Individuals.

On December 6, 2012 Lindsay received a report from Kumiki Gibson. It’s a good memo, with this one of it’s prominent conclusions:

Specifically, as a not-for-profit organization, which enjoys tax exempt status under Section 501©(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and which solicits funds from third parties, the Foundation is subject to a number of Federal and State laws governing such organizations… No matter what the leadership decides about the larger, over-arching question, it must act immediately to bring the Foundation into compliance with the law and standards that govern not-for-profits, and must create strong legal and HR offices so to prevent any lapses in the future.

There is no way to read this document than to conclude that Lindsay knew that the Clinton Foundation was operating outside the law for 501c3 entities, then signed an agreement with the White House committing himself and the Foundation to taking no foreign contributions.

Chelsea pushed for an audit in 2012. BKD Ltd. produced an audit dated September 28, 2012 with the document title “Audited Financials and 990.” This audit showed “significant deficiencies and material weaknesses… in internal control over financial reporting… internal control.” In short, the Foundation was still a mess. The report noted that most of the Foundation money was kept in foreign bank accounts.

The audit noted, “The financial statements for 2011 are consolidated and include the accounts of the Foundation, CGI and CHAI. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.” This is important as the MOU notes CGI and the Foundation. Basically, they are all the same entity.

Then we need a last memo, called, “Interim.Report.Nov. 10.doc” sent also on December 6, 2008. This memo refers to Exceutive Order 13476 of October 9, 2008. The agreement says, “In particular, a government employee may not allow the improper use of non-public information to further his own private interest or that of another by knowing unauthorized disclosure. 5 C.F.R. § 2640.”

No sending non-private info for personal gain. Well, we know they sent info to Podesta, Blumethal, Chelsea, Doug Band, and everyone else. So they broke this agreement too.

And conclusion, “To the extent permitted by law, the Administration with respect to its staff members and the President-elect’s Transition Team with respect to its transition team members, state that they intend to take appropriate steps to discipline any person who fails to comply with the terms of this agreement.”

Please note that the agreement continues after the transition into the administration.

To sum up, in 2008 the Foundation got a scathing review by Kumiki Gibson, saying the Foundation was a complete mess. In 2012, BKD Ltd. could not verify whether or not the foundation was in compliance with the law but did report many deficiencies continuing. These are internal foundation documents.

We know Hillary Clinton and the Foundation violated two memorandums of understanding with the force of law as to sharing information and accepting foreign donations.

There are so many violations of law in the Wikileaks release it’s breathtaking. The biggest scandal of all is the silence of the media.