Frank Giustra speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative's 2015 Winter Meeting in New York on Feb. President Barack Obama that it would reveal the identities of all its contributors as a way to avoid the perception of conflicts of interest when Hillary Clinton became secretary of state.īoth the Clinton Foundation and CGEP Canada have said that Canadian law would prevent them from disclosing the identities of people here in Canada without their prior consent. San Salvador, El Salvador, (17 November 2014) The Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership today announced that through a new Supply Chain enterprise model in El Salvador, small-scale farmers have better access to markets and infrastructure for their locally grown produce, empowering them to improve their livelihoods. Giustra has donated more than 31 million US to the foundation. This was controversial because in 2008, the Clinton Foundation signed an ethics agreement with the administration of U.S. Mark Blumberg, a Toronto-based lawyer who specializes in charity law, said an organization should anticipate questions about its finances, especially when it deals with politically sensitive people and issues, and go beyond the minimum requirement of a financial statement published on the CRA website.ĬGEP Canada came under scrutiny last year after it was revealed it had not disclosed the identities of roughly 1,100 donors. "Overall, with respect to any charity, we would look at the whole of its operations to determine if it continues to comply with the requirements of the Act," CRA spokeswoman Jelica Zdero wrote in an emailed response to questions. To this end, he and Bill Clinton met with leaders of the Kazakhstan government. Giustra’s goal was to buy uranium mines in Kazakhstan. The Canada Revenue Agency says it has no rule on what constitutes an ideal ratio. Giustra is a massive donor to the Clinton Foundation. The issue of so-called overhead spending - and whether charities should be judged or compared by how much of it they have - is a hot topic in charitable giving circles, with many arguing that more attention should be paid to the impact an organization has than to how much it pays its employees. Brown, who said the charity firmly expects the facts in its response would be reported to the public in a way that is accurate, forthright, not misleading and "does not tarnish the good charitable works in which our client is engaged". Giustra and Clinton deny any wrongdoing, but this is the kind of legal and ethical slipperiness that is the modus operandi of Bill Clinton and the Clinton. It also emailed a letter from Toronto-based lawyer David S. Giustra has also promised to give an additional 100 million to the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative (CGSGI), which is a project of the Clinton Foundation unveiled last year. The Canadian charity would not provide the name of the spokesperson who communicated by email with The Canadian Press. TORONTO, /PRNewswire/ - Over the past few weeks, the Canadian registered charity I founded, the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (Canada), has come under heightened scrutiny.Many. The charity said its staff in Canada - four full-time positions in 2014, according to the return - works on "partnership development and marketing, investor prospecting, and finance" in co-ordination with the American-based team.
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