EFTA01132130.pdf

EFTA01132130 M oney, m on ey , m on ey ! birthday festivities in June. ing good friends I guess be- with Peres. and broker- waTahaet,n-ii—rra ing the accord that won Peres the ntatiotiagecottflit tuivi ti Peace Prize were not reasons Nobel founded by called Teneo. a for Bill to celebra te. The Israelienougho rate scarnm blend branch consult ing, Yrelate of the Jewish Nation al Fund had merchant banking, and tkirPri.' to agreed son to Maureen donate half a mil dation. Isn't the J.N.F. to the Clinton foun- put Huma, a daughter to Htllary. on a sum:1°1e Dowd "suppo plant trees with donor cash?"sed to Even Big Daddy Bill tshuermgate was a Payrdi. chided before the fund pulled Haaretz As this newspa per guess money does grow on back. "I worked on retainer , renonediPaidTeneeadviser charging monthly trees." fees up I never thought I'd have to to $250.00 0 and read recruiting cheats WASHINGTON Clinton nostalg ia is be- words Ira Magaziner again. But the from among Clinton Founda tion donors. the while encouraging others ing replaced by Clinton man who helped Hillary torpedo to become neuralgia. her foundation donors. The Clintons Why is it that America's roil own health care plan is back. family In an article in this newspaper tanced themselves from Teneo dis- always seems better in abstract last when than in week headlined "Unease at Clinton they got scorched concrete? The closer it gets to runnin g Foundation," Nicholas Confessore and Clintonworid with bad publicity the world once more, the more you are Amy Chozick offered a compelling is a galaxy after the collapse of reminded of all the things that bugged chronicle about an internal review of where its client MF Global. you the last time around. the international the rechristened Bill, Hillary & Chelsea personal The Clintons' neediness, their sense brokerage firm led by Clinton Foundation that illuminated the of what they are owed in material enrichment the former New Jer- fungible finances and tensions between terms for their public service, their as- and political sey governor Jon Clinton loyalists and the foundation ar- sumption that they're entitled to every- chitects Magaziner and Doug Band, advancement Corzine. one's money. former bag carrier for President Clin- blend seam- And Chelsea is now t Are we about to put the "For Rent" ton. lessly. shaping the founda- I sign back on the Lincoln Bedroom? You never hear about problems with tion's future, and her i If Americans are worried about political future. So Jimmy Carter's foundation; he just there may not be as much oxygen for money in politics, there is no larger quietly goes around the world eradicat- her troublesome surrogate siblings. concern than the Clintons, who are cos- ing Guinea worm disease. But As George Packer wrote in The New seted in a world where rich people end- Magaziner continues to be a Gyro Yorker, Bill Clinton earned $17 million lessly scratch the backs of rich people. Gearloose, the inept inventor of Donald last year giving speeches, including one They have a Wile E. Coyote problem; Duck's Duckburg. to a Lagos company for $700,000. Hil- something is always blowing up. Just "On one occasion, Mr. Magaziner dis- lary gets $200,000 a speech. St when the Clintons are supposed to be patched a team of employees to fly Until Harry Truman wrote his mem- floating above it all, on a dignified cloud around the world for months gathering oirs, the ex-president struggled on an 0! of do-gooding leading into 2016, pop-pop- ideas for a climate change proposal that Army pension of $112.56 a month. "1 pop, little explosions go off everywhere, never got off the grouhd," Confessore . copidszater lendmtialtatiogitrazisar- reminding us of the troubling connec- and Chozick said. t ion, however respectabla:themnidi tions and values they drag around. We are supposed to believe that every "that would commercialize on thi . dollar given to a Clinton is a dollar that prestige and dignity of of e of the There's the continuing grotesque improves the world. But is it? Clinton- presidency." spectacle of Anthony Weiner and Huma world is a galaxy where personal en- So quaint, Packer wrote. observing, Abedin. And there's the sketchy in- "The top of American life has het lime a volvement of the Clintons' most prolific richment and political advancement blend seamlessly, and where a cast of very cozy and lucrative place, where the fund-raiser, Terry McAuliffe, and Hil- social capital of who you are and who lary's brother Tony Rodham in a ven- jarringly familiar characters pad their pockets every which way to Sunday. you know brings unimaginable returns." ture, GreenTech Automotive; it's under The Clintons want to do big worthy "Efforts to insulate the foundation federal investigation and causing fire- things, but they also want to squeeze works in Virginia, where McAuliffe is from potential conflicts have high- i7 w iofnfisc thiatrcan beortko dis- money from rich people wherever they e n ta ng jeutshtehco lighted running for governor. live on planet Earth, insatiably gob- Many Israelis were disgusted to learn bling up cash for politics and charity from Mr. Clinton's moneymaking ven- that Bill Clinton was originally sched- and themselves from the same incestu- tures and Mrs. Clinton's political fu- uled to scarf up $500,000 to speak at the ous swirl. ture," Confessore and Chozick wrote. Israeli president Shimon Peres's 90th