Former Official Will Cooperate With Investigators Probing Scheme To Funnel Money From State Dept To Kerry's Daughter

Well, this is a surprise, said no one.

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Ethan Barton Investigative Reporter
10:27 PM 02/21/2018

A former senior Peace Corps official agreed to cooperate with any law enforcement investigations surrounding a scheme that funneled millions of Department of State dollars to a nonprofit founded and run by former Secretary of State John Kerry’s daughter, recently published court documents show.

Warren “Buck” Buckingham agreed to cooperate as a condition of an agreement with the Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney’s Office that would keep him from facing prosecution for a related illegal lobbying charge, court documents filed Thursday and made public Tuesday show. (RELATED: Former Peace Corps Official Who Steered Contracts To John Kerry’s Daughter May Avoid Prosecution)

Also as part of the agreement, Buckingham admitted to the charge that he lobbied his former Peace Corps colleagues to help his employer, Seed Global Health, secure a $6.4 million State Department-funded contract extension around September 2015.

Buckingham also helped Seed – a nonprofit founded and run by Kerry’s daughter Vanessa Kerry – secure it’s original nearly $3 million contract, which was also funded with State Department money, in September 2012. Buckingham soon left the Peace Corps while under investigation for improperly hiring an employee and subsequently sending the official lewd emails.

Officials from both agencies met with Vanessa and arranged the scheme that would funnel State Department money to Seed through the Peace Corps, previous Daily Caller News Foundation investigations show in detail. (EXCLUSIVE: John Kerry’s State Department Funneled MILLIONS To His Daughter’s Nonprofit)

Additionally, John Kerry’s State Department hired Buckingham as a consultant soon after the former Peace Corps official helped Vanessa’s nonprofit secure its first contract.

Buckingham agreed to cooperate with “any ongoing investigation” the Attorney’s Office or other law enforcement agencies conducts related to the money funneling scheme, court documents said. He agreed to “disclose all factual information” surrounding the scheme, including “any document, record or other tangible evidence.”

Buckingham also agreed to “make himself available for interviews or testimony,” including testifying before a grand jury or in trials and identifying other witnesses who may have information related to the investigation, court documents said.

Seed hired Buckingham around the time the original contract was expiring to “manage [the] relationship with external partners such as the Peace Corps,” the court documents said. Buckingham contacted Peace Corps “to review questions posed by Peace Corps regarding the renewal of” Seed’s contract.

Buckingham was notified in September 2015 that his “communications with Peace Corps about the cooperative agreement were potential violations of conflict of interest laws” and subsequently stopped talking with the agency about the contract, court documents said.

The documents only refer to Buckingham’s work with “Foundation A,” but significant details make it clear the organization is Seed.

First, the timing, value and funding source of the arrangement identified in the court documents were unique to Seed.

Second, the court documents note that the State Department secretary in February 2013 “was the father of the co-founder and CEO of Foundation A.”

Third, the court document shows that the foundation in question hired Buckingham around the same time as Seed.

Fourth, Buckingham lobbied the Peace Corps for Seed’s contract extension, TheDCNF previously revealed.

Neither Seed nor Buckingham’s lawyer immediately returned a request for comment. The U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to comment.


Thank You Mr Barton and the DC.

Special Treatment Gave John Kerry's Daughter $9 Million in Govt Contracts

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No problem there…

Via Daily Caller:

Peace Corps officials directed Department of State funds to a nonprofit run by Secretary of State John Kerry’s daughter by disqualifying other potential applicants through half-hearted analysis.

“We’ll never know, but this market research seems like an effort to steer this deal to Kerry’s group, which might not have been in the government’s best interest,” Project On Government Oversight (POGO) General Counsel Scott Amey told The Daily Caller News Foundation. POGO is a nonprofit watchdog that has extensively investigated government contracts among other oversight issues.

The State Department funneled more than $9 million through the Peace Corps to Seed Global Health – a nonprofit run by Kerry’s daughter, Dr. Vanessa Kerry, TheDCNF previously revealed. Seed received the money through Peace Corps contracts for the Global Health Service Partnership (GHSP), which were awarded without competition.

“The sole source deal looks a bit fishy,” Amey told TheDCNF.

Keep reading…

Thank You Nick and DC. 

John Kerry's Mind Blowing Response To Ebola Patient's Death: "We Need Borders To Remain Open"

From the guy who was made Sec State to make Presidential Hopeful Hillary Clinton look good by comparison. (And just what does this tell you about her HRC-ness?)

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Wow. Really?

KERRY: We need to quickly move to contain the spread of Ebola. We need borders remain open. And we need to strengthen the medevac capacity. We need countries to contribute for Ebola centers and other African countries to join the effort and we need to make sure the health care workers who go properly trained.

Keep reading…

“‘Here I come to save the day!’

That means that John Kerry’s on the way!

Yes sir, when there is a wrong to right, John Kerry will join the fight!

On the sea or on the land, he has the situation well in hand!”

John Kerry pic and poem cred to National Review and Jim Geraghty. 


The presumptive Next President of the United States (thanks for giving us JK) Hillary Rodham Clinton.

No. Can't be. Someone wouldn't actually throw a shoe at America's beloved Auntie Kim Jung Clinton, would they?

Sec State "I Served In Vietnam" John Kerry Tells Africans Not To Create More Farms For Starving Children Because It Will Create More Global Warming

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We've said it before.

The DNC/Clintonistas put Kerry in to make Hillary Clinton look good by comparison for her Presidential Run in 2016. It probably wasn't even Obama's doing since he's backing Elizabeth Warren over HRC.

And look how far they had to lower the bar to put a positive spin on Hillary.