No surprise...

Not a bit...

The scandal-plagued Obama Presidential Center in Chicago already stirred up plenty of controversy. Now the money trail surrounding it raises even more uncomfortable questions about how former President Barack Obama’s inner circle is cashing in while taxpayers get screwed over.

New federal tax filings reveal the staggering salaries flowing through the Obama Foundation as construction of the $850 million Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park nears completion. The foundation will operate the massive 19.3-acre campus, which sits on publicly owned Chicago parkland. The project includes a museum, an athletic center, and a public library branch. It will not operate as a traditional presidential library overseen by the National Archives.

The land it sits on is a big part of the scheme. The Obama Foundation secured a 99-year agreement with the city, under which the foundation pays just $10 per year to use the plot. That deal alone costs Chicago tens of millions of dollars in potential value while handing over prime public property to a private nonprofit run by a former president.

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

As always, ‘follow the money’ if you can...

This is also the organization that promised a $450M ‘endowment’, but according to records, only $1M has ever been put IN the endowment.

Meanwhile, the usual suspects keep dipping into that trough of ‘free money’, since they were part of the ‘administration’. Of course, they say their ‘salaries’ are lower than ‘most’ foundations...

The Rockefeller Foundation’s CEO makes about $1.4M year, but controls $6.4B of endowment. The Mellon Foundation’s CEO makes about the same, but controls about $8B of endowment with annual grants about $540 million. The Ford Foundation’s endowment is $16 to $16.8B with annual grants about $500 million, and the CEO makes around $1.2M.

How about compare and contrast... shall we???

And I’m wondering if the lawsuits have been to court yet, or been squashed over the overruns, quality control issues, etc... Haven’t heard much if anything about those in the last year or so.

Shrug, not my circus, not my monkeys, and sure as hell NOT my money...