Free Beacon discovered the donations, responsibly contacted ABC to get a statement on it from them and/or Stephanopolous. Instead ABC, knowing the jig was up, dumped the story off to Politico, hoping perhaps to blunt the edge, get more favorable treatment or at least deny Free Beacon the breaking of the story.
The person Free Beacon contacted at ABC was this woman, Heather Riley. Read on…
Via Free Beacon:
The ABC News spokesperson who rebuffed the Free Beacon’s request for comment on George Stephanopoulos’s undisclosed donations to the Clinton Foundation also worked in the Clinton administration.
Heather Riley, spokeswoman for ABC News programs Good Morning America and This Week, worked in the White House press office from 1997 to 2000, according to her LinkedIn profile, and is a member of the Facebook group “(Bill) Clinton Administration Alumni.” White House records show that Riley’s duties included serving as a press contact for then-First Lady Hillary Clinton.
Prior to joining ABC News, Riley worked as a senior director of brand communications for Rodale, Inc., the publishing company best known for wellness magazines such as Men’s Health. Rodale also published former Vice President Al Gore’s best-selling global warming book, An Inconvenient Truth.
Rodale, Inc., and its charitable foundation have donated between $20,000 and $50,000 to the Clinton Foundation, records show. The Rodale family contributed at least $5,000 to Hillary Clinton’s campaigns between 2005 and 2008.