A Lesson for the Ages—Charles Ortel on Clinton money and charity law

New York investor and accountancy expert Charles Ortel has spent years focusing his financial acumen on the Clinton Foundation (latest public report: 2022), which he insists is the largest unprosecuted fraud in history and the exemplar of a wider genre of retired international political figures turning supposedly charitable organisations into slush funds.

Even the name "Clinton Foundation" is an inaccuracy; as the interview progresses, we discover that the names and locations in which the Foundation is registered and licensed to collect funds do not stack up in accordance with the exacting requirements of state and federal charity law across the United States.

Ortel gives the UK Column audience a tour of his encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject so that they can discover how involved the UK Government (together with several European, Canadian and Australian governments) is in abetting the Foundation.

This interview is extremely well-sourced with primary documents and mainstream press reports shown on screen, the most important of which are linked below. Plenty of detail is also given on the acquisition of wealth by President Joe Biden and his wife Jill, which Ortel says "stinks".

 

Background

Joseph Cassano: the man with the trillion dollar price tag on his head (Tim Rayment, Sunday Times, 2007)

With so many red flags, why isn't the IRS auditing the Clinton Foundation? (Charles Ortel, Breitbart, 2015)

Biden: Hiding in Plain Sight (Charles Ortel, American Thinker, 2023)

"Nothing to see here": Members and the media panic as the Biden scandal mounts (Jonathan Turley, 2023)

RFK Jr. calls for a "real investigation" on the Biden family (Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 2023)

The Bidens' Influence Peddling Timeline (House Oversight Committee, U.S. Congress)

Trump administration declassifies full Susan Rice email sent on Inauguration Day (Betsy Woodruff Swan, Politico, 2020)

Biden's whirlwind final days as vice president had aides scrambling to close his White House office (Kevin Liptak et al., CNN, 2023)

Surprising Obama-Biden partnership goes on display at convention (Perry Bacon Jr., NBC News, 2016)

 

The paper trail

Memorandum of Understanding: Clinton Foundation, Obama Administration (U.S. Senate, 2008)

Hillary R. Clinton (FBI Vault, uploaded 2017–present)

Presidential Tax Returns (TaxNotes.com)

Deciles of income before taxes (U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey, 2016)

Deciles of income before taxes (U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey, 2017)

Delaware income tax return by Jill Biden (2017)

 

The Clinton Foundation and U.S. charity law

About the Clinton Foundation

Annual Reports and Audited Financial Statements & IRS Form 990s (Clinton Foundation)

William J. Clinton Foundation, Inc. Independent Accountants' Report and Financial Statements (non-consolidated report rather than consolidated audit, BKD LLP, 2005)

Registry Search (CharitiesNYS.com, New York State Office of the Attorney General)

Registry Verification Search (State of California Department of Justice and Office of the Attorney General)

Charities Search (Secretary of State of North Carolina)

 

The Clinton Foundation, non-U.S. governments and health initiatives

The Global Fund

1990s Seinfeld episode ("The Human Fund") sending up the corporate habit of lying about charity

Larry Doyle and John Moynihan testimony to Congress on the Clinton Foundation, 2018 | Highlights | Washington Examiner write-up

Audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2021 (UNITAID, part of the World Health Organisation) 

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom (Katherine Eban)

Dirty medicine (Katherine Eban, Fortune, 2013) | Archived version

William J. Clinton Foundation UK (Companies House)

ClintonFoundationTimeline.com

International elites rush to embrace Clinton Global Initiative (Simon Kent, Breitbart, 2023)

Vati-Con Scandal (Wikipedia)

 

Follow Charles Ortel

Substack: "False Philanthropy"

YouTube: "Charles Ortel is Closing In" and "Sunday with Charles" with Jason Goodman on Crowdsource the Truth