Clinton Foundation Failed to Disclose 1,100 Foreign Donations
On Saturday, responding to the Times story, Maura Pally, the acting CEO of the Clinton Foundation, issued a statement echoing this assertion: “This is hardly an effort on our part to avoid transparency-unlike in the U.S., under Canadian law, all charities are prohibited from disclosing individual donors without prior permission from each donor.”
Canadian tax and privacy law experts were dubious of this claim. Len Farber, former director of tax policy at Canada’s Department of Finance, said he wasn’t aware of any tax laws that would prevent the charity from releasing its donors’ names. “There’s nothing that would preclude them from releasing the names of donors,” he said. “It’s entirely up to them.”
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While Giustra says he can’t reveal any names, he is willing to disclose that [Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (CGEP)–a Canadian affiliate of the Clinton Foundation] money comes from “mostly Canadian donors.” The charity is registered in Canada, he says, not to hide the identity of its donors but to enable them to receive Canadian tax breaks that can reimburse them for nearly half of what they give.
However, not all CGEP’s big donors are Canadian. The Canada Revenue Agency–Canada’s IRS–requires charities to reveal whether they receive donations of more than $10,000 (Canadian) from people who are not Canadians, employed in the country, or carrying on business there. In both 2009 and 2010, CGEP filings show that it reported receiving such donations to Canadian authorities.
Via Drudge
They didn’t fail to disclose.
They had no intention of doing so.
SURPRISE!
Tell me again why Romney was a bad guy because he was rich?
The Clintons: giving ordinary low-lifes a good name.
about time that the Chicago mafia was turned back over to the Arkansas mafia .
Hm, wondering if those annoying “For the FOUNDATION” TV ads are part of this?
Meanwhile at the CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-frank-giustra-s-partnership-with-clinton-foundation-under-scrutiny-1.3049903
Not one word about all this money coming through a filter from Russia.
Not one word about Rosatom taking over a uranium mining company.
Not one word about the Sec of State accepting foreign bribes.
How can CBC journalism sink any lower? It was already as dismal as it got.
CGH, they can scrape the bottom of the barrel, find the opening of a trap door, and discover 20 more floors.
This is why cbc is irrelevant as a media ‘voice’ for Canadians.
Perhaps the Clintons are just confusing the present Canadian regulations
with changes that would likely occur if a future President Grandma Clinton
friendly Trudeau stooge government takes power at some later date.
(sigh) Lamentably true. Once upon a time, many decades ago, the CBC was the gold standard for journalism. Then along came the ’70s, complete with advocacy journalism and pequistes at Radio-Canada. Sic transit gloria. The Boomers have ruined a once-fine institution.
This is why cbc is malevolent as a media ‘voice’ for Canadians.
Heh, caught a typo….
The laundering of bribe money is the CBC Canadian way….AKA The Canadian Values, because without that ability you are just piss-Ants … In the USA we have laundering by ME Oil Companies money buying influence in environmental policy & activism…All hidden!
Gangsters the lot!
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