Why has Hillary Clinton been spending her 2016 campaign money?

Hillary Clinton received substantial amounts of funds for her 2016 campaign, but they are virtually depleted. She has less than $60,000 remaining, according to a report report by the Federal Election Commission, to which the Washington Examiner has had access.

Donald Trump's upset victory six years ago not only dashed Hillary Clinton's hopes of becoming the first woman president of the United States, but it also made her the candidate who lost to the New York businessman. This fact virtually ruled her out of any further run for the presidency. But Clinton has continued to maintain an expensive machine, the usefulness of which is hard to appreciate.

Did not run in 2020

In fact, there were 29 candidates running in the 2020 Democratic primaries, and none of them were Hillary Clinton. She would not have withstood the charge that she had enabled Donald Trump to become president.

Since the beginning of 2017, Hillary's campaign has spent $6.37 million. The Federal Election Commission prohibits candidates from using surplus funds for personal use.

Advisors

During this time, Hillary Clinton has been paying large sums to her collaborators who performed "advisory" work. For example, the former secretary of state's campaign has paid Elisabeth Jones $361,000 since the beginning of 2017 for "management consulting."

Anders Williams, who was Clinton's IT director, has received in the same period $295,000 from the campaign for "technology consulting." Williams' services have not been enough, as Clinton has paid another $76,000 to Shane Hable for the same. Hable is the IT director of the Obama Foundation.

Also, since early 2017, when Donald Trump's presidency began, Hillary's campaign has hired Taryn Vogel's firm to perform regulatory "compliance consulting" work. The contract cost her $219,000.

Storage

On the other hand, in all this time Hillary Clinton has used $169,000 of campaign funds in storage. Of that amount, $45,000 has gone to her own organization, Onward Together.

The Washington Examiner quotes Paul Kamenar, an advisor to the National Legal and Policy Center, an organization whose purpose is to promote ethics in public life. Kamenar notes that "Hillary's distribution of leftover money from her losing 2016 campaign to former employees for questionable services allegedly rendered years later is highly irregular, if not illegal." And he wonders, in particular, "And why is he spending $169,000 on storage costs - to store useless Hillary campaign posters and buttons?"