[S] o did the son-in-law of a former Ukrainian president whose government was widely criticized for corruption and the murder of journalists. That amounts to more than $30 million.
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Other critics have said the foundation’s reliance on millions of dollars from foreign governments created conflicts of interest for a would-be USA president.
And we will change the official name from the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation to the Clinton Foundation.
One of the Abedin-Band exchanges shows that when Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain requested a meeting with Secretary of State Clinton, he was forced to go through the Clinton Foundation for an appointment.
As Mrs Clinton’s campaign for the presidency continues, the foundation has become a significant source of controversy for the candidate.
But damage has been done to her campaign, feeding Donald Trump’s childish taunts of “crooked Hillary”.
Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman, resigned on August 18 amid increased scrutiny of his work for a pro-Moscow Ukrainian political party.
A new batch of emails released Monday by the watchdog group Judicial Watch illustrates the inner workings of the nation’s capital and highlights a system that allows big donors to receive the type of access unavailable to ordinary Americans. Mr. Chagoury explained through a spokesman that he had simply wanted to provide insights on elections in Lebanon.
The logs also provided documentation of Mills’s involvement in responding to ABC News questions in 2011 about Rajiv Fernando, a Chicago commodities trader who had been given a position on a sensitive State Department security panel, despite having no known experience in that area. Bill Clinton also said he would not give any more paid speeches if Hillary wins the election.
Bill Clinton told foundation staff about the decision at a meeting, according to Clinton Foundation spokesman Craig Minassian. And he said he would step down from the board and no longer raise money for it.
It’ll be weeks before the public learns anything about what’s in that dump – but Monday brought plenty of dirt from yet another stash of e-mails, ones that top Hillary aide Huma Abedin sent or received on her clintonemail and other non-State accounts. “It will cast a shadow over their policies”. First, the Clinton Foundation continued to accept foreign donations while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state.
“If she is elected, we will immediately implement the following changes: The Foundation will accept contributions only from USA citizens, permanent residents, and USA -based independent foundations, whose names we will continue to make public on a quarterly basis”, Clinton wrote. Its work covers 180 countries, helping fund more than 3,500 projects.
They including scores of messages from Band at the Clinton Foundation.
In December 2008, shortly before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, Bill Clinton released a list of more than 200,000 donors to defuse speculation about conflicts. “It’d be impossible to keep the foundation open without at least the appearance of a problem”. A suggestion that Russian hackers search for Clinton’s 33,000 missing emails led to questions about whether he would be committing treason by asking foreign agents to hack a United States presidential candidate.
But fear not for the Clinton Foundation.
The annual Clinton Global Initiative High Mass, which gathers every year in NY thousands of politicians, associations or companies worldwide, will be held for the last time in September.
Victor Pinchuk, a steel magnate whose father-in-law, Leonid Kuchma, was president of Ukraine from 1994 to 2005, has directed between $10 million and $25 million to the foundation. The statement did not specify Bill Clinton’s future role. Based on her record, it is safe to suggest this new promise as a reaction to recent Clinton Foundation revelations and sharp criticism from the editorial board of a major newspaper publication, is virtually meaningless.
And on Tuesday, The Boston Globe published an editorial calling for the foundation to “remove a political – and actual – distraction and stop accepting funding”. Pence rhetorically asked why there wasn’t a conflict of interest when she was Secretary of State.
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Considering the scale and scope of the foundation, Mr. Wonderlich said it was easy to “name a hundred different types of conflicts”.
