Half of Clinton “Charitable Giving” Went to the Clinton Foundation

Hillary ClintonA review of the latest financial disclosures from the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton foundation shows that half of Bill and Hillary’s charitable giving in 2014 went right to their foundation, according to Free Beacon.

The Clintons earned more than $28 million in 2014 and claimed around $3 million in income as charitable tax deductions, according to tax returns released by Hillary Clinton’s campaign last Friday. The campaign emphasized Clinton’s charitable giving in a press statement, saying that it “represented 10.8 percent” of her income in 2014. But roughly half of that money—$1.8 million—appears to have been channeled to the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

According to the tax returns, the Clintons gave $3 million in 2014 to the Clinton Family Foundation, a small private foundation that the family uses as a pass-through to other charities. Records show the CFF disbursed $3.7 million in 2014, including $1.8 million to the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

The CFF made other charitable donations last year, but the donation to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Foundation was the family’s largest.

The Clintons do not directly get paid by the foundation but they do get travel benefits and their loyal aides are on the payroll.

The Foundation has found itself under scrutiny by Charity Navigator, who but the organization on its “watch list” saying it had an “atypical business model.”

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