Good day all. John “Ketchup Boy” Kerry has worked diligently to surpass Hillary “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” Clinton as the most incompetent Secretary of State in American History. Now it looks like he’s making a run at the most corrupt as well.
We know that “Allegedly” Hillary Clinton sold her office for donations to the Clinton Slush Fund Foundation. Now it appears that there’s some financial shenanigans going on with Ketchup Boy and his family’s “Charity” as well. Here are some details from the Daily Caller:
More than $9 million of Department of State money has been funneled through the Peace Corps to a nonprofit foundation started and run by Secretary of State John Kerry’s daughter, documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation show.
The Department of State funded a Peace Corps program created by Dr. Vanessa Kerry and officials from both agencies, records show. The Peace Corps then awarded the money without competition to a nonprofit Kerry created for the program.
Did anyone consider just how bad this looks? It doesn’t matter if it was all on the up and up, someone should have stood up and said “Hey, just a moment. This doesn’t look so good.”
Initially, the Peace Corps awarded Kerry’s group — now called Seed Global Health — with a three-year contract worth $2 million of State Department money on Sept. 10, 2012, documents show. Her father was then the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, which oversees both the Department of State and the Peace Corps.
Seed secured a four-year extension in September 2015, again without competition. This time, the Peace Corps gave the nonprofit $6.4 million provided by the Department of State while John Kerry was secretary of state.
Seed also received almost $1 million from a modification to the first award, as well as from Department of State funds the group secured outside the Peace Corps.
So, just what does this “alleged” charity actually claim to do?
The Peace Corps program — called the Global Health Service Partnership (GHSP) — sends volunteer physicians and nurses to medical and nursing schools in Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Liberia, according to Seed’s website. More than 40 clinical educators worked at 13 sites in the 2014-2015 program.
Sounds nice, however, I know of several long established groups that do the exact same thing. However, it looks like the “Fix was in.”
Kerry and government officials colluded to launch the program and ensure that Seed would get the contract.
Such an interesting word, “Colluded”. It has such an aroma of conspiracy to it.
“Vanessa, Buck, and Sarah are meeting with Ambassador Goosby on the morning of 9/16/11 to discuss next steps for the GHSP,” said a memo from September 16, 2011 — one year before Seed received its first award. “Conversations with OGAC leadership confirm that Ambassador Goosby is very supportive of the initial proposal.”
The memo was referring to Peace Corps Directors Buck Buckingham and Sarah Morgenthau and Ambassador Eric Goosby, who then headed the Office of the US Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) — the State Department office that later funded GHSP. A meeting one month later unveiled the strategy to send tax dollars to Seed.
“The public funding to start the GHSP is secured, it will come from OGAC through [Peace Corps] to support core HQ and field based activities, and to develop a sub-agreement to provide support to the foundation for contributions for their work in this partnership,” minutes from a Nov. 18, 2011, meeting said. The “foundation” refers to Seed, which was then called the Foundation for Global Health Service.
And here is “The Fix.”
Officials in that meeting also assured Kerry that she would not have to compete with other groups for Department of State funds.
“Buck obtained clarity of the mechanism by which federal money will be provided to” Seed, the minutes said. “The process can be fast tracked and non-competed through a specific grant mechanism.”
And now we come to the Kerry’s competing with the Clinton’s in hiding the money.
Meanwhile, the State Department buried its intent to transfer funds to the Peace Corps in its required congressional notification.
“The GHSP is a smaller line item in a multi-page document with multi-million dollar programs,” minutes from the November 2011 meeting said.
The article goes into details of how the State Department and the Kerry Slush Fund Seed tried to justify all the little bureaucratic games they pulled. Now this might just be a completely above board and good organization, but the way they got their money stinks to high heaven. Worse, it’s obvious that the Kerry’s aren’t as good as the Clinton’s in covering up their misbehavior. I wonder if any questions will be asked of the current Secretary of State regarding slipping a few million in taxpayer money to one of his children?
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