“We informed CGI staff of this transition more than four months before the end of the year, and have provided information about CGI-related roles that will continue”, a Clinton Foundation spokesperson told Politico, adding, “All full-time CGI employees will have their jobs with benefits at least through the end of the calendar year”.
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Clinton, the advisers said, hopes that the speech will provide a strong rebuttal to what he sees as partisan attacks on his foundation.
Bill and Hillary Clinton have come under constant fire in recent months amid continuing questions regarding conflicts of interest between the Foundation and the Clinton State Department.
State “wouldn’t do anything they shouldn’t do” Candidates can’t campaign as dividers and govern as unifiers Two parties use legitimate means to mask rigged debates MORE in an interview said some donors may have given to the Clinton Foundation to gain influence with the Clintons but that he trusted the State Department to handle possible conflicts of interest when his wife led the department.
However, some of the cuts to the Clinton Foundation are apparently independent of the November election, and simply the result of the broader scandal surrounding the so-called “charity”. But as the Times editorial states, it also has become a vehicle for suspicions about backroom dealing and currying favor – feeding and reinforcing a narrative about the Clintons that has long dogged Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
A meticulous new study finds that major broadcasters appear to be shielding Hillary Clinton and her campaign for the White House, even as questions about her family foundation continue to emerge.
To assuage critics, Bill Clinton announced last month that he would be stepping down from the board, and that the organization wouldn’t accept foreign donations if Mrs. Clinton wins the election in November. He said the initiative had marked a “profound advance” in global philanthropic efforts and had helped 435 million people in 180 countries. But I would have paid more to do this job. “It was poorly managed, treated too glibly, patronizingly, completely lacking empathy at the fact that so many young people were going to be laid off”, a former C.G.I. official told Politico.
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CGI supporters missing from this year’s guest list include U.S. President Barack Obama, as well Hillary Clinton, who will “instead be at the United Nations General Assembly opening”.
