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Judi Lynn

(160,630 posts)
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 10:37 PM Oct 2017

Corrupt officials in Colombia stole $13 billion, including childrens lunch money, last year

Source: Colombia Reports


written by Adriaan Alsema October 25, 2017

Corrupt officials have embezzled more than $13 billion from Colombia’s regional budgets, according to the comptroller general. A program to feed poor children lost $16 million through corruption.

Comptroller General Edgardo Maya announced the awe-dropping figure on Wednesday at the presentation of results of an audit of regional development budgets.

. . .

The program to feed children has received special attention after the death of more than 100 children due to malnutrition last year alone.

The scandal this spurred led to the arrest of multiple alleged corruption networks that implicated at least one governor.

Read more: https://colombiareports.com/corrupt-officials-colombia-stole-13-billion-including-childrens-lunch-money-last-year/

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Corrupt officials in Colombia stole $13 billion, including childrens lunch money, last year (Original Post) Judi Lynn Oct 2017 OP
Drop in the bucket compared to what the Repugnants and the corporations they work for cstanleytech Oct 2017 #1
Donald Trump pocketed more than a million dollars donors thought would go Tanuki Oct 2017 #2
Yet another of his amazing achievements. Never had heard about that triumph. n/t Judi Lynn Oct 2017 #3
Here is the info: Tanuki Oct 2017 #4
The gop members in DC Scarsdale Oct 2017 #5

cstanleytech

(26,319 posts)
1. Drop in the bucket compared to what the Repugnants and the corporations they work for
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 11:01 PM
Oct 2017

are stealing from the American people.

Tanuki

(14,921 posts)
2. Donald Trump pocketed more than a million dollars donors thought would go
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 11:07 PM
Oct 2017

to St Judes Hospital to treat sick and dying children and find cures for pediatric cancers.

Tanuki

(14,921 posts)
4. Here is the info:
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 12:14 AM
Oct 2017
https://www.google.com.vn/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/amp/

...."The best part about all this, according to Eric Trump, is the charity’s efficiency: Because he can get his family’s golf course for free and have most of the other costs donated, virtually all the money contributed will go toward helping kids with cancer. “We get to use our assets 100% free of charge,” Trump tells Forbes.

That’s not the case. In reviewing filings from the Eric Trump Foundation and other charities, it’s clear that the course wasn’t free–that the Trump Organization received payments for its use, part of more than $1.2 million that has no documented recipients past the Trump Organization. Golf charity experts say the listed expenses defy any reasonable cost justification for a one-day golf tournament.

Additionally, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which has come under previous scrutiny for self-dealing and advancing the interests of its namesake rather than those of charity, apparently used the Eric Trump Foundation to funnel $100,000 in donations into revenue for the Trump Organization.

And while donors to the Eric Trump Foundation were told their money was going to help sick kids, more than $500,000 was re-donated to other charities, many of which were connected to Trump family members or interests, including at least four groups that subsequently paid to hold golf tournaments at Trump courses.

All of this seems to defy federal tax rules and state laws that ban self-dealing and misleading donors. It also raises larger questions about the Trump family dynamics and whether Eric and his brother, Don Jr., can be truly independent of their father.

Especially since the person who specifically commanded that the
for-profit Trump Organization start billing hundreds of thousands of dollars to the nonprofit Eric Trump Foundation, according to two people directly involved, was none other than the current 
president of the United States, Donald Trump."... (more)

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
5. The gop members in DC
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 07:44 AM
Oct 2017

are probably taking notes, in case there are some ways of screwing the working class that they have not indulged so far. We are headed to Banana Republic territory with the group in charge.

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