| | | Chelsea Clinton 'used Foundation money to fund wedding', according to new Wikileaks emails
A new chain of Wikileaks emails alleges Chelsea Clinton used money from the Clinton Foundation for her wedding to Marc MezvinskyAn email from Doug Band, a former top aide to president Bill Clinton and a former Clinton Global Initiative board member, complains about Chelsea Says she is conducting internal investigating of money withing the Clinton Foundation and told one of George W Bush's daughters this informationBand says this is conflict of interest because Chelsea allegedly used money for her weddingIt is estimated the cost of Chelsea Clinton's wedding was about $3 million, but it is unclear how much Foundation money might have been usedOther emails from Band show him slamming Mezvinsky and saying Chelsea Clinton 'goes to daddy' to get her way on plans
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PUBLISHED: 12:57 EST, 6 November 2016 | UPDATED: 12:59 EST, 6 November 2016
Hillary Clinton's daughter Chelsea allegedly used funds from the Clinton Foundation to go toward her wedding, new Wikileaks emails purport.
In several emails, Doug Band, a former top aide to president Bill Clinton and a former Clinton Global Initiative board member, complains about Chelsea Clinton (writing 'cvc' or Chelsea Victoria Clinton).
In one email, dated January 1, 2012, Band emails John Podesta, Chairman of the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, and says the Chelsea Clinton was conducting an internal investigation into CGI and the Clinton Foundation, which posed a conflict of interest.
The email from Band reads: 'I just received a call from a close friend of (William Jefferson Clinton) who said that cvc told one of the (George W Bush) kids that she is conducting an internal investigation of money within the foundation from cgi to the foundation.
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Hillary Clinton's (center, left) daughter Chelsea (center, right) allegedly used funds from the Clinton Foundation to go toward her wedding, new Wikileaks emails purport
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An email from former Bill Clinton (right) top aide Doug Band claims Chelsea (left) was conducting an internal investigation of Foundation funds, which was a conflict of interest because she had allegedly used funds for her wedding
'The bush kid then told someone else who then told an operative within the republican party.
'I have heard more and more chatter of cvc and (Bari Lurie, chief of staff to Chelsea Clinton at the Clinton Foundation) talking about lots of what is going on internally to people. Not smart,' he wrote.
Podesta replied calling his comments an 'understatement'.
Band replies: 'I learned from the best. The investigation into her 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....,' Band wrote ominously.
Chelsea Clinton's wedding is estimated to have cost about $3 million, but is unclear how much money went from the Foundation to the wedding and what it went toward, if in fact, funds were used.
Other alleged emails from the months before and after the email alleging the Chelsea Clinton used Foundation money for her wedding show clear frustration from Band directed at the Clintons' daughter.
In a Wikileaks email dated November 27, 2011, Band allegedly gets angry with Chelsea Clinton for going to her 'daddy' to re-schedule a meeting around the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
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'I hope that you will speak to her and end this. Once we go down this road....,' Band wrote ominously to John Podesta in an attempt to reign Chelsea in
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In an email dated November 27, 2011, Band gets angry with Chelsea Clinton for going to her 'daddy' to re-schedule a meeting around the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur (pictured with husband Marc Mevzinsky)
An initial email sent from Robert S. Harrison, Chief Executive Officer of the Clinton Foundation, asked the recipients if they would be able to schedule meeting before Sundown on the first night of Yom Kippur, Wikileaks purports.
Chelsea Clinton emails back in the chain writing: 'Thank you Bob. I'll talk to my Dad about the below later today. Hope everyone had wonderful Thanksgivings.'
Later, a private email to Podesta shows Band tearing into Chelsea Clinton.
'This is the 3rd time this week where she has gone to daddy to change a decision or interject herself in the process she says is so important to maintain.
'Her father decided to keep cgi as it always was and bob is jewish/didnt like that decision and went to cvc and thus it will be changed,' Band wrote.
At this point, Chelsea Clinton had been married to husband Marc Mezvinsky, who is Jewish, for more than a year and would be observing the high holy day.
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'This is the 3rd time this week where she has gone to daddy to change a decision or interject herself in the process she says is so important to maintain,' Band complains in the email
Another email from Band appears to go after Mezvinsky as well.
'Marc mez had an idea to put together a poker night for the foundation to raise money.
'His raising money for his own fund hasn't been going well and he has cvc making some calls for him to get mtgs with some clinton people.
'Marc has invited several potential investors and a few current business ones to the poker night. I assume all are contributing to the foundation, which of course isn't the point.
'What is the point is that he is doing precisely what he accused me of doing as the entire plan of his has been to use this for his business which he is,' Band writes.
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