Hillary in Another Ethics Scandal

And this one was quite profitable to her and Bubba. They operated a family charity and made the faux pas of not reporting it:

The Ethics in Government Act requires members of Congress to disclose positions they hold with any outside entity, including nonprofit foundations. Hillary Clinton has served her family foundation as treasurer and secretary since it was established in December 2001, but none of her ethics reports since then have disclosed that fact.

The foundation has enabled the Clinton's to write off more than $5 million from their taxable personal income since 2001, while dispensing $1.25 million in charitable contributions over that period.

Let's reiterate that; they dispensed $1.25 million and wrote off $5 million. In other words, they paid out one quarter of what they saved. Now that's what I call charitable...to the Clinton's. Note that one of the donations was to a charity connected to the very same firm that allowed Hillary to make $100K in a cattle futures deal in which she put up $1000 (the check for the organization was "miscoded".

Note further that it's a true family affair, Chelsea Clinton is named as Director. It's nice to see them teaching Chelsea the secrets of the family business.

I guess one silver lining is that they blamed it on an oversight (repeated over five straight years) and not on an aide as is their usual modus operandi.

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