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EXCLUSIVE: Kerry’s Daughter Traveled On Taxpayers’ Dime To Get Government Contracts
Posted By Ethan Barton On 8:18 PM 10/23/2016 In | No Comments
Secretary of State John Kerry’s daughter and her staff traveled around the world on the taxpayers’ dime to secure more than $9 million in Department of State-funded contracts, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation.
The Peace Corps authorized an estimated $46,000 for 20 international and domestic trips for Dr. Vanessa Kerry and her staff, agency documents obtained by TheDCNF show. The purpose of the travel was to form the Global Health Service Partnership (GHSP) – a Peace Corps-run and State Department-funded program Kerry proposed.
The Peace Corps ultimately gave Kerry’s nonprofit – Seed Global Health – $9 million in contracts for the program, which were bankrolled by the State Department and awarded without competition between 2012 and 2015, TheDCNF previously revealed.
“Certainly, the taxpayer funding of 20 globe-trotting trips for Vanessa and her team even before they had a federal contract smacks of cronyism and nepotism,” libertarian think tank Cato Institute’s federal spending expert Chris Edwards told TheDCNF.
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