Just when you thought the Clintons’ money couldn’t get any more suspect.
The Clinton Foundation on Thursday made public that it received up to $26.4 million in previously undisclosed payments from corporations, universities, and even foreign sources, according to the Washington Post.
The foundation made the admission in a post on its website.
From the Post:
The money was paid as fees for speeches by Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. Foundation officials said the funds were tallied internally as “revenue” rather than donations, which is why they had not been included in the public listings of its contributors published as part of the 2008 agreement.
The new disclosures demonstrate that the Clintons have, since 2002, delivered 97 paid speeches from which money has gone to the family’s charity. The majority of these speeches — 73 — were delivered by Bill Clinton. He’s got to pay those bills, remember?
While those at colleges and universities accounted for over two dozen of the speaking engagements, Hillary, Bill and Chelsea Clinton also delivered remarks at corporations located in the United States as well as overseas.
Those located outside the U.S. included the South Korean energy and chemicals conglomerate Hanwha, China Real Estate Development Corp., and Qatar First Bank (formerly Qatar First Investment Bank), to name a few.
At least one foreign government source — namely, the energy ministry in Thailand — paid for remarks delivered by Bill Clinton.
Of course, spokesman for the charity Craig Minassian tried to pass the new disclosures off as evidence of the foundation’s continuing commitment to transparency.
“In addition to the more than 300,000 donors who are all listed on our website, posting these speeches is just another example of how our disclosure policies go above and beyond what’s required of charities,” Minassian asserted.
The reports of the Clinton Foundation’s newly disclosed funds come just days after it was revealed that Bill and Hillary lined their personal pockets with the $25 million they earned from delivering paid speeches in just 16 months since the start of 2014.
