Title: Fact Check: Did the Clinton Foundation pay for Chelsea's wedding? - News - The Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville, FL
Headings: Fact Check: Did the Clinton Foundation pay for Chelsea's wedding?
Fact Check: Did the Clinton Foundation pay for Chelsea's wedding?
Content: We couldn’t find any follow-up to the story. The story went viral days before the 2016 presidential election when Fox News published a story on Nov. 6 under the headline, "Clinton Aide Says Foundation Paid for Chelsea’s Wedding, WikiLeaks Emails Show." Band wrote in 2012 that he had received a call from a close friend that Chelsea, identified in the emails as "cvc," told "one of the bush 43 kids" that she is "conducting an internal investigation of money within the foundation." In a second email, Band wrote, "The investigation into [Chelsea] getting paid for campaigning, using foundation resources for her wedding and life for a decade, taxes on money from her parents … I hope that you will speak to her and end this. Once we go down this road …"
The email also stated that a top foundation donor was responsible for "killing" unfavorable media coverage — all as an internal foundation audit uncovered numerous conflicts of interest and "quid pro quo benefits." But TruthOrFiction.com points out that it’s not clear exactly what "investigation" Band was referring to, or what, if anything, it concluded about foundation "resources" supporting Chelsea’s wedding. The allegations are unproven, but we will do an update column when more is revealed.