Cybersecurity
Clinton Aide Boasted About How He Helped Foundation Prosper
- Memo posted by WikiLeaks talks of ‘Bill Clinton, Inc.’
- Former aide says he ‘leveraged my activities’ at Teneo to help
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks on April 26, 2016, in Philadelphia.
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Doug Band, a longtime aide to former President Bill Clinton, said in a 2011 document released by WikiLeaks that the high-powered consulting firm he co-founded helped raise money for the Clinton Foundation when its own efforts were flagging.
The memo was written around the time Chelsea Clinton was questioning whether Band’s role as an adviser to her father and the family foundation presented conflicts of interest as he courted clients for Teneo Holdings LLC. In the memo, Band argued just the opposite: that he was a volunteer who sought to “leverage my activities, including my partner role at Teneo, to support and raise funds for the Foundation."