Hillary Clinton's latest scandal involves a totally different Clinton charity, The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI).
The Boston Globe is reporting that, despite promises made to the Senate during Ms. Clinton's confirmation as Secretary of State, donor information was not disclosed:
The Clinton Health Access Initiative never submitted information on any foreign donations to State Department lawyers for review during Clinton’s tenure from 2009 to 2013, Maura Daley, the organization’s spokeswoman, acknowledged to the Globe this week. She said the charity deemed it unnecessary, except in one case that she described as an “oversight.”
During that time, grants from foreign governments increased by tens of millions of dollars to the Boston-based organization.
Daley’s acknowledgement was the first by the charity of the broad scope of its apparent failures to fulfill the spirit of a crucial political pledge made by the Clinton family and their charities. The health initiative has previously acknowledged failing only to disclose the identity of its contributors, another requirement under the agreement.
The failures make the Clinton Health Access Initiative, which is headquartered on Dorchester Avenue in South Boston, and goes by the acronym CHAI, a prominent symbol of the broken political promise and subsequent lack of accountability underlying the charity-related controversies that are dogging Clinton as she embarks on her campaign for president.
Just like other Clinton charities in the news, CHAI performs noble work. Per its website, achievements range from:
scaling up pediatric AIDS treatment in order to achieve equity with adults in a timeframe few thought possible, to rapidly accelerating the rollout of new vaccines. CHAI has achieved many of its most important successes when seeking to fundamentally change the way the world approaches an issue and pushing the boundaries of what is considered feasible in global health.
The news about the Clinton Health Initiative comes the day after the news that another Clinton charity, the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, failed to reveal the identities of its 1,100 donors. News about which the Washington Post warned:
The number of undisclosed contributors to the charity, the Canada-based Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, signals a larger zone of secrecy around foundation donors than was previously known.
The Post also asked former Senator Richard G. Lugar (R-IN), who asked Ms. Clinton, about potential conflicts with her husband's charities during her 2009 confirmation hearings.
[Lugar] said Tuesday that he considered such undisclosed donations to violate the spirit of the ethics agreement.
“Clearly, there was an expectation and a commitment that large donations to the Clinton Foundation would be disclosed,” Lugar said via e-mail.