Institute founded by Sanders' wife, son is shutting down [View all]

[TomCADem]

It is amazing that after Bernie made attacks on Hillary's private foundation a cornerstone of his campaign in 2016 that in 2020 no one has really gone after the corruption of running a private foundation that was blatantly used as a tool for generating support ahead of his 2020 campaign.

https://apnews.com/81e3d6de30ee4ea589e8100f627ac059

Worse, Bernie also used foundation money to pay his son in law a six figure salary even though his son had no experience with nonprofit foundations. It just seems that there is a reluctance to call Bernie on his hypocrisy due to fears that online trolls will retaliate.

https://apnews.com/9e4794da89ab448399f3ff1457464d1b

The unexpected move by the institute’s board of directors comes as Bernie Sanders, a leading candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination, prepares for a wave of intense scrutiny into his political network and his family’s role in its operation.

As a candidate in 2016, Sanders criticized Hillary Clinton over her family’s nonprofit, saying the foundation run by Clinton’s husband and daughter amounted to a back door for foreign leaders and others seeking to buy access and influence. The Sanders Institute could open the Vermont senator to charges of hypocrisy.

The institute was founded to promote liberal policies less than two years ago by Sanders’ family with the backing of pro-Sanders celebrities and advocates— though Sanders himself had no formal role. While it operates at a fraction of the scale of the Clinton Foundation, it has accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars during its brief existence and has declined to disclose its donors.

Jane Sanders, who also serves as a chief adviser to her husband’s presidential campaign, is not compensated for her role at the institute. Her son, David Driscoll, is paid $100,000 a year as co-founder and executive director. Driscoll previously was an executive for Nike and the Vermont snowboarding firm Burton, but had no previous nonprofit experience, according to his LinkedIn profile.