CLINTON CRY OF U-S-PAY!

Tax $$ for Hill’s e-server and f’dn salaries

Taxpayers footed part of the bill for Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server and helped subsidize salaries at the Clinton Foundation, according to a report Thursday.

Analyzing government records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Politico revealed that part of the payments allocated to Bill Clinton as an ex-president went for IT equipment and to supplement salaries at the foundation.

Thirteen of the 22 foundation staffers also received checks from the feds, the news site reported.

Justin Cooper, one of the aides who helped set up Hillary Clinton’s controversial e-mail system, was getting government checks between 2011 and 2013.

Cooper has also done work with the Clinton Foundation and Teneo, the corporate consultancy founded by Clinton aides Doug Band and Declan Kelly.

Band himself received taxpayer funds until 2013 — two years after he launched Teneo.

Politico also found that the Clinton Foundation’s chief operating officer, Laura Graham, was on the government payroll as well.

In many cases, the Clinton loyalists each had their foundation paychecks supplemented by federal payments of about $10,000 a year using funds from the Former Presidents Act.

Bill Clinton has received nearly $1 million this year from the fund, which was formed in 1958 to keep ex-presidents out of the poorhouse.

Computer equipment used by the foundation also ended up on the taxpayers’ tab. In several cases, officials of the General Services Administration, which allocates Former Presidents Act funds, raised questions about whether requested furniture and IT equipment including servers were intended for the Clinton Foundation, rather than Clinton’s personal office.

In at least one instance, the GSA paid to purchase and maintain a specialty Lockheed Martin database system called Intranet Quorum, which ended up at one time in the Clinton Foundation’s offices and was used by both foundation staff and Bill Clinton’s personal office staff to store and process his correspondence.

The Clinton Foundation states on its Web site that “All Foundation employees are paid for work through the Foundation payroll. As a former President, President Clinton has separately allocated funding for a private office and for associated costs (rent, utilities, and salaries and benefits for staff ). No Foundation staff are paid for Foun- dation work with taxpayer dollars.”

But a Clinton aide said the opposite when confronted with the findings.

“[T]here is no legal prohibition that would preclude the former president’s staff from receiving compensation from other sources or doing personal work for the former presidents. We are unaware of any legal prohibition that would preclude these activities,” the Clinton aide told Politico.