at the time of the email, chelsea clinton was pushing to enact tougher internal rules at the clinton foundation regarding conflicts of interest and outside income. | ap photo hacked emails reveal allegations of financial impropriety by clinton insiders. by kenneth p. vogel and zach montellaro 10/17/16 05:49 pm edt chelsea clinton sent a fiery email to a group of top clinton advisers, detailing allegations about aides she said were undermining the family, including by possibly misrepresenting their expenses and blurring the line between a family-linked consulting firm and the clinton foundation. in the november 2011 email, which was hacked from the gmail account of clinton family confidant john podesta and released on monday by wikileaks, chelsea clinton details a series of allegations that she <u+201c>was told or experienced<u+201d> about aides to her father, including doug band, justin cooper and hannah rickert. most of the accusations proved unfounded, a source familiar with the situation told politico. story continued below in the email, chelsea clinton says the allegations made her <u+201c>very sad,<u+201d> though she acknowledges that she cannot attest to the veracity of all of them and that there are likely other <u+201c>sides<u+201d> to the claims. still, she says she raised the concerns with her parents. and, as part of her efforts to <u+201c>professionalize the foundation,<u+201d> she wrote, she was passing along the allegations to the recipients of the email <u+2014> podesta, longtime hillary clinton confidante cheryl mills and two officials from simpson thacher, a law firm that had been commissioned to audit the clinton foundation. at the time of the email, chelsea clinton was pushing to enact tougher internal rules at the clinton foundation regarding conflicts of interest and outside income. those efforts were seen as targeting her father<u+2019>s close aides, band and cooper. they had started a consulting firm called teneo at the same time as they were working for clinton<u+2019>s personal office , while band also was working for a foundation project called the clinton global initiative, or cgi. the firm, which signed a contract reportedly worth $3.5 million with bill clinton to serve as an adviser (though the former president ultimately kept only $100,000 of that, according to his tax returns and a source familiar with the arrangement), won contracts with foundation donors and entities with business before hillary clinton<u+2019>s state department. by nolan d. mccaskill in the 2011 email released friday, chelsea clinton wrote, <u+201c>my father was told today of explicit examples at cgi of doug/ teneo pushing for <u+2014> and receiving <u+2014> free memberships <u+2014> and of multiple examples of teneo 'hustling' business at cgi.<u+201d> band and cooper declined to comment for this story, while representatives for the clinton foundation and chelsea clinton did not respond to requests for comment. rickert did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. in another complaint in the email, chelsea clinton wrote that band <u+201c>reached out to someone at harry walker (who represents my father on all speaking arrangements), to ask for a full list of all his speeches, how much he was paid for each speech, and told the contact person at harry walker that all speeches should now go through him, not terry krinivic (the scheduler).<u+201d> a person familiar with the situation told politico that band<u+2019>s work for the former president had long included arranging his personal speeches, so it would not necessarily have been unusual for him to make such a request. this person suggested that chelsea clinton<u+2019>s allegations were not found to be warranted, pointing out that band and cooper continued working for the former president<u+2019>s personal office for about two years after her accusations, while rickert continues to do so. chelsea clinton<u+2019>s email also relays allegations from two other clinton aides, who she claims told her that cooper read their emails and loaded <u+201c>spyware<u+201d> onto the computer used by one of the aides. one of the staffers also alleged that cooper and rickert <u+201c>have taken significant sums of money from my parents personally <u+2014> some in expenses <u+2014> cars, etc. <u+2014> and others directly,<u+201d> clinton wrote. clinton concludes her email by acknowledging <u+201c>as ever, on some of the above i am sure there are three sides as my grandmother would say <u+2014> his, hers and the truth.<u+201d> <u+201c>on others, it seems more clear,<u+201d> she writes. <u+201c>all of it makes me very sad. thank you all for your help.<u+201d> correction: due to an editing error, this article wrongly described rickert as director of cgi international. by thomas wright by bill scher by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
chelsea: aides <u+2018>hustling business<u+2019> at foundation - politico
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