Bernie Sanders wired $200K in campaign money to family nonprofit
nypost.com
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) campaign committee wired $200,000 to a nonprofit established by his wife and step son earlier this year, filings show.

Prior to the launch of the Sanders Institute, the Independent senator was harshly critical of then-rival Hillary Clinton over the Clinton Foundation.

“If you ask me about the Clinton Foundation, do I have a problem when a sitting secretary of state and a foundation run by her husband collects many millions of dollars from foreign governments, governments which are dictatorships?” Bernie Sanders told CNN at the time.

“You don’t have a lot of civil liberties or democratic rights in Saudi Arabia, you don’t have a lot of respect there for opposition points of view, for gay rights, for women’s rights. Do I have a problem with that? Yeah, I do.”

  • anon6789@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The frustration at Hilary was that it was Saudi money, not that it was money going to the Clinton Foundation, was it not?

    I’m not totally up on campaign finance law, but don’t most politicians have or be long to these political lobbying organizations?

    A quick search basically says the Sanders Institute works to get progressives elected, so that seems a legit use of campaign money, or am I clueless on this?