Prima Facie Feces (Shit on the Face of It)

I don’t use pejoratives because I can do no better. Our situation is so poor today that I know no other way to make the dire situation clear. It should be obvious to anyone working in a middle-management position or above with any real charitable organization who spends about 10 minutes reviewing the Clinton Foundation’s own website and documents, that the organization does little to nothing with measurable outcomes or deliverables. Its reported revenues are wildly at variance with what it says it does. The organization is about the same revenue or budget size as the March of Dimes, which has a 2-star out of 4-star rating from Charity Navigator. Clinton Foundation? UNRATED by Charity Navigator. In other words they would be NO STAR if Charity Navigator could rate them by its criteria that apply to all other charitable organizations.

Note Line 5: Employees

It’s gone now but two months ago the Clinton Foundation proudly announced it has more than 1,000 employees. Not in the Coachella Valley. I don’t have any idea what that UBIT (Line 7a) or “Unrelated Business Income” that is taxable is, but likely the bookstore or gift shop at the Clinton Museum in Little Rock. This organization’s accounting is the worst but I’m sure they don’t neglect to declare a loss on UBIT: wouldn’t want to have to pay any taxes.

The Clinton Foundation website is a Pandora’s box of horrors to those who have worked in legitimate nonprofits. There is no employee doing “Prescription Drug Abuse Reduction” — it’s exactly the same as Coachella Valley. So this reminded me of something. Recently, I saw Patrick Kennedy and Newt Gingrich on television promoting use of an unnamed medication for “opioid addiction and treatment.” So here is Newt’s thing doing the exact same as Clinton Foundation has been promoting: Advocates for Opioid Recovery.

Clinton Foundation way out ahead.

The drug is called naloxone. The program is intended to enforce purchase agreements. The private Big Pharma companies are called kaléo and Adapt Pharma. The price is fixed, paid by taxpayers. It is intended to replace street drugs or other prescription drugs and guarantee revenue for Big Pharma. That’s it. There is no social or other benefit. It is about keeping addicts on a specific drug and out of people’s sight and mind.

They’ve compared my work to Philip K. Dick. Neither he nor I could come up with shit like this.

Do you understand what you just read? Clinton Foundation expends zero dollars in this endeavor. They just put out press releases. Patrick Kennedy and Newt Gingrich push it from another angle. Neither of those two puts out any money either. They just use their notoriety to go on TV and tell people how great this is. If they could not take money out of your pocket another way they will do it this way. More dollars will be transferred to the wealthy, fewer required to be spent elsewhere. Awesome! Perfect! No worries.

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

No PDF report from 5 years ago here: just a “signup”

There is no “Healthy Schools Program” conducted by the Clinton Foundation.

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation that DOES THE ACTUAL PROGRAM does not use Clinton Foundation funds — they just take credit for it — #1 in their annual “report”

This vague portion of the Clinton Foundation website lists the Alliance for a Healthier Generation as an “affiliated entity.” No money changes hands. It is located in Portland, OR. It was co-founded with the American Heart Association ten years ago.

However, the Clinton Foundation does like to issue press releases. One of its outcomes listed in its 2014 annual report caught my eye.

Another great program from the Alliance for a Healther Generation (no Clinton Foundation funds or work required)

Just read it. That’s the first featured page in the Clinton Foundation Annual Report covering 2013. Like #1, what they want everyone to see they “accomplished.”

McDonalds promises to do what it has to do to keep customers coming in the door.

CLINTON FOUNDATION STOPS CHILDHOOD OBESITY BY TAKING CREDIT FOR WHAT MC DONALDS HAS TO DO TO KEEP THE DOORS OPEN!!!!

I learned from whistleblower, investment executive and financial expert Charles Ortel that the Foundation charges $20,000 and up for people to attend the events that serve as the sole basis for its claims of doing work or achieving outcomes.

Below is probably my favorite Bill Clinton press release, documenting 9% increase in milk and juice purchases from McDonalds thanks to him and the donations of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, the UAE, some Swedish lottery scam, Frank Giustra, Carlos Slim and unknown other sources.

This is what they say is an “outcome” of the Foundation: ZERO donated dollars spent — on something the company is doing because it must or customers will continue to go elsewhere.

These are not unique. The same situation is present on every page of the Clinton Foundation website. The Foundation takes credit for impossible or nebulous outcomes, having done no work whatsoever. In many cases the agreements it touts as “outcomes” or “commitments” (its whole rationale for the reason it gives few, if any ‘grants’ to other organizations) are signed at events for which the businesses or other charitable or government organizations pay to attend in the first place.

What Others Say

Americans have already largely ignored in-depth, meticulously reported articles on the problems of the Foundation’s activities overseas, including related organizations like the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI).

The New York Times reported extensively on the Foundation’s “programs” in Rwanda. You know. The land-locked African nation where one of the worst genocides of the 20th century occurred. So did the Boston Globe.

Sometimes I think about how hard reporters work for low pay. I wonder, what do they feel like when they work their tails off and reveal amazing truths and no one gives a rat’s ass?

Either one of those two reports I linked to above would have launched an Iran-Contra style Congressional hearing were it, oh, say, the George W. Bush Foundation doing this. The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) isn’t part of the Clinton Foundation.

Once you get into auditing anything related to the Clinton Foundation, it’s a Rube Goldbergian structure of pure madness. This is what Charles Ortel has been doing. They are so bad it may never be fully-analyzed or understood.

You know how “forthcoming” Mrs. Clinton was about her email server? That is how “forthcoming” the Foundation and any of its entities or affiliates are with anything related to their operations.

As one example, the various reporters for the New York Times, Boston Globe and others were told that CHAI (the separate, ginormous international health organization) had government grants of less than $700,000 through the CDC for AIDS / HIV efforts in Africa and that was it — the only government funding received.

This is a similar statement to “I never sent or received classified emails via my email server.”

The actual amount is much larger, the programs were noncompliant and perhaps this is how their unbelievable greed and venality will finally stop them (I’m fantasizing — I’m a sci fi writer — I probably will end up like barbell strangulation guy). They couldn’t help taking Federal money which triggers one of the few checks or balances this organization might encounter: the Federal Single Audit requirement. I knew right off just glancing at the materials that this organization could never pass a real Single Audit (formerly known as OMB Circular A-133 and similar requirements — which changed in 2014). They did not, do not, have never, and could never, meet those requirements.

But so as a side note, the government contracts with the CDC listed “David Conteh” as the principal reporter. This gentleman is located in Ethiopia. His Linked In profile does state he works for the Clinton Foundation. But as far as his actual work?

The Geneva Foundation is not part of the Clinton Health Access Initiative or Clinton Foundation

Charles Ortel is doing the heavy lifting with the records of the Clinton Foundation and their web of interrelated organizations. However, I am pretty solid with programs and government grants. The newspapers were told less than $700,000 in government grants in recent years.

This list I just pulled off the Federal government’s own website by EIN for CHAI totals more than $9.2 million.

Some parts of the Obama Administration were/are honest and transparent, enabling individuals to pull down legally mandated Single Audit reports for Federal contracts.

As I stated, I knew there was no way based in my actual work experience that the Clinton Foundation/CHAI or any of them could even vaguely pass a real Single Audit.

The various entities have audit exceptions for every year that appears in the Federal database — Clinton Foundation, the William J Clinton Foundation (Little Rock-based ‘programs’ using the term loosely) and CHAI, for every year covered by this clearinghouse (2011–2014).

These range from serious deficiencies and severe deficiencies to material weaknesses, noted at least once per year per contract. Those are the management, accounting and government contracting versions of the FBI investigation of Secretary of State Clinton’s home-based email computer server system.

Legally, the Clinton Foundation entities are obliged to provide copies of their Federal Single Audits to the public. These are not the same as the “audited financial statements” provided to the public via the various websites. Those are prepared by Pricewatershouse Coopers (PwC).

Aside: I knew there was rotten fish when I saw the auditor’s statements on the regular financial statements for Clinton Foundation and CHAI. It is a classic “CYA” auditor statement and not suitable for any legitimate organization receiving government funding.

As to who prepared the single audits for the $100-million+ revenue organization CHAI? BKD, LLP — Little Rock, AR branch.

Keep in mind, this Arkansas-based firm already uncovered audit exceptions that would bar any other organization from receiving Federal funding, repeatedly, year after year.

#1 on the sanction list? Good Old BKD, LLP!

For the average person still reading, this means that not only is the auditing firm that does the real audits for the Clinton Foundation entities based in Little Rock, Arkansas — with ties to Clintons for many years, it’s also one that has been sanctioned for violations of auditing rules. And even with all that, the crooked auditors were still finding severe accounting and program violations (i.e. they did not spend the money received from the government for what it was supposed to be spent on).

Clinton Foundation is going to say “but we have no audit exceptions for CHAI for 2014”. That’s right. You just didn’t fill out that tab on your Excel form at all so it says nothing. It’s so amazing! No one said anything and they accepted it!

Again, to the common reader this is the identical situation to what you just heard about the Hillary Clinton email server and State Department and FBI. No one else would get away with it, but …

Foreign Countries, Who Cares?

People may have already read about how a complex transaction related to Canadian mining billionaire Frank Giustra resulted in a Russian-owned company owning 20% of US uranium reserves.

Mr. Giustra is partners with Bill Clinton in a separate initiative called CGEP-Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership.

Indeed, it is!

This one — you have NO idea who gives to it but what it says it “does” is bitterly funny

So these awesome guys are going around giving lots of money. In 2008, generous Bill Clinton gave $10 million to the President of Peru to provide money for cataract surgeries in that country.

Once again we have a great press release.

Carlos Slim says there have been FIFTY THOUSAND cataract surgeries completed!

They cannot get their numbers straight. I sure can’t tell how many cataract surgeries were completed. One part of Clinton Foundation website says 20,000, another says 5,000. This one says 7,000. Carlos Slim — he thinks he provided the money. He’s often cited as the world’s richest man. He controls all of Mexico’s telecommunications.

Not only have more surgeries been performed through this amazing donation than ever before, it’s more surgeries than there are people who need it in the entire country!

Meanwhile, the actual organization that does the surgeries? They are all-volunteer and raise money painstakingly — one surgery at a time, at a cost of about $250 each. They are called A Promise to Peru.

A Promise to Peru volunteers and staff — they don’t get money from Clinton Foundation

We all know that if it occurs in a foreign country, no one in the U.S. cares.

Like this school that has been educating 20,000 Colombians to work … this is pretty damn funny. Clinton Foundation website touted the school as educating more than 20,000 Colombians and getting them jobs in nebulous positions.

It sincerely said they were giving them jobs and listed a whole lot more than $750K the first time I saw this.

So seriously — this small job training center in Cartagena, Colombia is the result of business doings there on the part of Giustra and Clinton. They really cannot scrub all their press releases fully. I have no idea what year this the release refers to, but it’s been around for a while.

The center does operate. Its two-story building appears to be able to accommodate perhaps 100 to 200 students at a time.

Local newspaper reports from Cartagena refer to about 700 students graduating after three years of operations.

And a visitor from the Canadian government was unaware of the grossly exaggerated claims of the Clinton Foundation and told the truth just a few days ago via Twitter: in three years the center has graduated about 700 students. As to who really gives the money? Who knows? Like AIDS/HIV programs in Africa have become the responsibility of the US government, it appears the Canadian government has been given the responsibility to pay for the PR of Giustra, Lewis Energy, Carlos Slim, and Bill Clinton.