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John Kerry - Busted!!!!!!

Mike

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John Kerry is doing wonderful things as Secretary of State. Wonderful things for Vanessa Kerry, at least.

While leading up the State Department, Kerry’s daughter has benefited handsomely from lucrative contracts to her non-profit agency.


Without so much as the appearance of openness and transparency, the State Department extended a $2 million contract from the Peace Corps to “Seed Global Health,” Dr. Vanessa Kerry’s personal non-profit to more than $6 million – all without a required bidding process.

Back in 2012 – while Kerry was chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations -which oversees both the State Department and the Peace Corps, mind you, Dr. Kerry was awarded the initial $2 million for three years. Dr. Kerry’s non-profit helps send volunteer nurses and doctors to countries in Africa. That award was done without any competition or bidding process, The Daily Caller is reporting.

Then, three years later, when he was Secretary of State, Dr. Kerry’s group secured another four-year extension – also without any bidding process. This time, the non-profit got $6.4 million. The group also received an additional $1 million extra from what The DC refers to as a “modification” of the first award.

The Peace Corps program — called the Global Health Service Partnership (GHSP) — sends volunteer physicians and nurses to medical and nursing schools in Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Liberia, according to Seed’s website. More than 40 clinical educators worked at 13 sites in the 2014-2015 program.


Documents show that Dr. Kerry and other government officials colluded to get the program off the ground and that she would get the contract.

“Vanessa, Buck, and Sarah are meeting with Ambassador Goosby on the morning of 9/16/11 to discuss next steps for the GHSP,” said a memo from September 16, 2011 — one year before Seed received its first award. “Conversations with OGAC leadership confirm that Ambassador Goosby is very supportive of the initial proposal.”

The memo was referring to Peace Corps Directors Buck Buckingham and Sarah Morgenthau and Ambassador Eric Goosby, who then headed the Office of the US Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) — the State Department office that later funded GHSP.

The strategy was approved just a month later:

“The public funding to start the GHSP is secured, it will come from OGAC through [Peace Corps] to support core HQ and field based activities, and to develop a sub-agreement to provide support to the foundation for contributions for their work in this partnership,” minutes from a Nov. 18, 2011, meeting said. The “foundation” refers to Seed, which was then called the Foundation for Global Health Service.
 

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