In 1958 a law was passed that allowed former presidents to request extra money from the federal government. The intent of the law was to maintain their dignity and keep them out of the poorhouse. But Politico is now finding out that Bill Clinton totally abused the system, using the extra taxpayer money to subsidize both the Clinton Foundation and private email servers and support. According to Politico, Bill Clinton took more money from this special fund than any other president in history, and he’s nowhere near being poor!
POLITICO – Bill Clinton’s staff used a decades-old federal government program, originally created to keep former presidents out of the poorhouse, to subsidize his family’s foundation and an associated business, and to support his wife’s private email server, a POLITICO investigation has found. Taxpayer cash was used to buy IT equipment — including servers — housed at the Clinton Foundation, and also to supplement the pay and benefits of several aides now at the center of the email and cash-for-access scandals dogging Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
This investigation, which is based on records obtained from the General Services Administration through the Freedom of Information Act, does not reveal anything illegal. But it does offer fresh evidence of how the Clintons blurred the line between their non-profit foundation, Hillary Clinton’s State Department and the business dealings of Bill Clinton and the couple’s aides. The thousands of pages of newly uncovered records reveal sometimes granular detail about how Bill Clinton’s representatives directed the spending of taxpayer cash allocated by the GSA under the Former President’s Act.
The Act authorizes the GSA to fund the…
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