article_snippet: Clinton disbursement each year from the General Services Administration includes $96,000 for salaries; insiders told Politico that some of that money has been passed through to staffers at the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
article_snippet: The larger question raised by Politico is whether it's appropriate for tax dollars to subsidize the salaries of nonprofit employees while the salaries of nonprofit employees work is leveraged to support a potential presidential candidate.
article_snippet: The Clinton Foundation is now Hillary's principal political messenger in the public sphere.
article_snippet: Although The Clinton Foundation work doesn't include overt politicking or political campaigning, there's no mistaking that the public sees what Washington wags call 'Clinton, Inc.' – the amalgamation of the family's political, commercial and philanthropic arms – as a single entity.
article_snippet: Sources also told Politico that staffers whose compensation straddles Clinton foundation purse and Clinton government benefits include former White House aide Doug Band and senior The Clinton Foundation staffer Laura Graham.
article_snippet: The paper also speculated that Tina Flournoy, a former union official who is now Clinton chief of staff and advised Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign, has followed suit.
article_snippet: New York Magazine observed Flournoy's arrival at The Clinton Foundation in 2012 'as Hillary's planting a sentinel' there.
highlights_snippet: Some of the Clinton payouts are subsidizing staff who work at Clinton family foundation, now closely tied to Clinton wife Hillary .
  