Thread: Clinton’s State Department spent $5.4 million on ‘Crystal Stemware’

October 28, 2016 By Kristie McDonald

Clinton’s State Department spent $5.4 million on ‘Crystal Stemware’


Hillary Clinton’s State Department spent millions of taxpayer dollars on lavish goods and frivolous initiatives, such as a $5.4 million “no-bid contract for crystal stemware” and $630,000 to “increase Facebook likes on four State Department pages.”





From Washington Examiner

The expenditures appeared in a 21-page memo, prepared by the Republican National Committee, that documented the financial mismanagement that occurred at the State Department under Clinton’s watch.

While wasteful spending is a familiar find at most federal agencies, Clinton presided over particularly expensive unsuccessful reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Her agency spent more than $600 million on failed projects in those two countries alone, according to the RNC memo.

The projects included a $3.6 million fleet of “unused broadcast TV trucks” in Afghanistan and $167.5 million on “preventable cost overruns while expanding embassy Kabul.”

The State Department spent an additional $9.8 million on purchases the GOP characterized as “frivolous,” such as the $79,000 in taxpayer funds Clinton’s agency used to buy up copies of President Obama’s book or the $53,004 her agency spent on “marble polishing services” at the U.S. embassy in Brasilia “during the summer of 2010.”

Donald Trump seized on the State Department’s shoddy book-keeping during the third presidential debate, arguing $6 billion had gone “missing” when Clinton was at the agency’s helm.

His comments were likely based on a March 2014 memo from the State Department inspector general in which the watchdog noted contract files for projects worth up to $6 billion had disappeared since 2008. With no paper trail to document the progress of those projects, there was no way for the inspector general to verify that the money ended up in the proper place, the watchdog argued.
Clinton called Trump’s claim “debunked.”

http://eheadlines.com/clintons-state...stal-stemware/

Money wasted, flushed down the toilet by these corrupt politicians. Money that should have gone directly into OUR Social Security Funds that the government has "borrowed" from!!!

Cut off her pension and benefits for the rest of her life!