I guess you all just overlooked this... (I know, the millions that Clinton's got is "little gravy" compared to the 2,512.00 the NRA recieved).
Although the
Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation agreed not to accept donations from foreign governments while Hillary Rodham Clinton served as secretary of state, it did accept millions of dollars in contributions from private donors with ties to foreign governments, the
Wall Street Journal reports.
For example, the foundation received at least $8.6 million between 2009 and 2013 from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in Kiev, Ukraine, whose founder is married to the daughter of former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma. In 2008, Pinchuk made a five-year, $29 million commitment to the
Clinton Global Initiative to fund a program to train future Ukrainian leaders and professionals after being introduced to Bill Clinton by Doug Schoen, a pollster who subsequently registered as Pinchuk's lobbyist. While Schoen said his lobbying was unrelated to the donations, the Pinchuk Foundation told the
Journal they were intended to help make Ukraine "a successful, free, modern country based on European values" and that if Pinchuk was perceived to be lobbying the State Department, "this cannot be seen as anything but a good thing."
During Rodham Clinton's tenure at State, the foundation also received donations from Venezuelan media mogul Gustavo Cisneros, who is active in Venezuelan politics and has long advocated for the restoration of ties between the U.S. and Cuba, and the foundation of Victor Dahdaleh, a London businessman with ties to Bahrain's state-owned aluminum company. In 2013 and 2014, the foundation also received contributions from Saudi Arabia's Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former ambassador to the U.S., and Rilin Enterprises, part of a privately held Chinese construction, infrastructure, and port management company run by a member of the National People's Congress. The foreign donors reached by the
Journal said they contributed to the foundation for charitable, not political, reasons. The foundation has said that if Rodham Clinton runs for president in 2016, it would consider once again restricting donations from foreign governments, while under federal election law, foreign governments, individuals, and corporations would be barred from giving to her campaign.