Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich

by Peter Schweizer

  13. Venugopal, Arun, “South Asians Lean to Clinton . . . or Obama,” WNYC News, February 4, 2008, http://www.wnyc.org/story/78329-south-asians-lean-to-clinton-or-obama/.

  14. Gurley, George, “Vikram Chatwal, Turban Cowboy,” New York Observer, November 18, 2002, http://observer.com/2002/11/vikram-chatwal-turban-cowboy/#ixzz38gg8TRbI.

  15. Nelson, Dean, “Hillary Clinton’s Playboy Fundraiser Arrested over Heroin and Cocaine,” The Telegraph (UK), April 5, 2013, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/9975344/Hillary-Clintons-playboy-fundraiser-arrested-over-heroin-and-cocaine.html.

  16. Sherman, William, “Tax Deadbeat Is Livin’ Large: Clinton’s Buddy Owes City $2.4M,” New York Daily News, November 24, 2002, http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/tax-deadbeat-livin-large-clinton-buddy-owes-city-2-4m-article-1.496489?pgno=2.

  17. Ibid.

  18. Solomon, John, and Matthew Mosk, “When Controversy Follows Cash,” Washington Post, September 3, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/02/AR2007090201436_2.html.

  19. Port and Lewine, “Donor Gives Hillary a Soft $210G.”

  20. “Sant Singh Chatwal: Rise and Rise of an American Punjabi Hotelier.”

  21. US Department of State, Embassy in New Dehli, “Political Bargaining Continues Prior to Key Vote in Parliament,” WikiLeaks, July 17, 2008, https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08NEWDELHI1972_a.html. “Sant Chatwal Says WikiLeaks Allegations Baseless,” Deccan Herald (India), March 18, 2011, http://www.deccanherald.com/content/146770/F.

  22. Chakraborty, Tapas, “Clinton First, Sick Kids Later—Mulayam Woos Dollars as Rahul Visits Death Zone,” The Telegraph—Calcutta, September 8, 2005, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050908/asp/nation/story_5212257.asp.

  23. Haniffa, “Amar Singh Contributed Millions to Clinton Foundation.”

  24. “Can Obama Make India an Ally?” Hindustan Times (New Delhi), October 30, 2010.

  25. “Indian ‘Cash for Votes’ MP Amar Singh Freed on Bail,” BBC News, September 15, 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14925984.

  26. Chakraborty, “Clinton First, Sick Kids Later.”

  27. Aron, Sunita, “Clinton, Romance and All That . . . ,” Hindustan Times (New Delhi), September 7, 2005.

  28. Ibid.

  29. “Rural Health Mission Launch Today,” Hindustan Times (New Delhi), September 6, 2005.

  30. “Clinton Visit: Celebs Show Has Just Begun, Says Amar,” Hindustan Times (New Delhi), September 10, 2005.

  31. Dutt, Ela, “The World Cannot Do without Muslims, and Muslims Cannot Do without America: Singh,” News India-Times (New York), October 21, 2005.

  32. Ibid.

  33. Ibid.

  34. “Amar Singh Makes Huge Donation to Clinton Foundation,” Times of India (Mumbai), December 18, 2008, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Amar-Singh-makes-huge-donation-to-Clinton-Foundation/articleshow/3864349.cms.

  35. Bagchi, Indrani, “. . . But May Slow Down N-deal, Doha Round,” Times of India (Mumbai), November 9, 2006, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/-But-may-slow-down-N-deal-Doha-round/articleshow/374508.cms.

  36. Haniffa, Aziz, “Indian-American Community Upset with Hillary,” Rediff, June 30, 2006, http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/jun/30aziz.htm.

  37. Mcintire, Mike, “Indian-Americans Test Their Clout on Atom Pact,” New York Times, June 4, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/washington/05indians.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.

  38. Gerstein, Josh, “Clinton Taps Newly Active Indian Donors,” New York Sun, June 12, 2007, http://www.nysun.com/national/clinton-taps-newly-active-indian-donors/56332/.

  39. Srivastava, Siddharth, “India: Wheeling and (Nuclear) Dealing,” Asia Times Online, July 6, 2006, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HG06Df01.html.

  40. “India Inc. Gives Millions to Clinton Foundation,” Business Standard News (India) December 20, 2008, http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/india-inc-gives-millions-to-clinton-foundation-108122001012_1.html.

  41. Prashad, Vijay, “What Did Hillary Clinton Do?” Counterpunch (blog), March 10, 2009, http://www.counterpunch.org/2009/03/10/what-did-hillary-clinton-do/.

  42. Talbott, Strobe, Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, and the Bomb (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2006), 231.

  43. “Foreign Policy Brain Trusts: Clinton Advisers,” Council on Foreign Relations Backgrounder, June 20, 2008, http://www.cfr.org/elections/foreign-policy-brain-trusts-clinton-advisers/p16204.

  44. Weiss, Leonard, “India and the NPT,” Strategic Analysis 34, no. 2 (March 2010): 255–71, doi:10.1080/09700160903537856.

  45. Markey, Edward J., and Ellen O. Tauscher, “Don’t Loosen Nuclear Rules for India,” New York Times, August 19, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/opinion/20markey.html.

  46. Parnes, Aime, “Clinton Allies Distance ‘Decisive’ Hillary from ‘Passive’ Obama,” The Hill, September 10, 2014, http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fnews%2F217216-clinton-allies-distance-decisive-hillary-from-passive-obama.

  47. Meyer, Bill, “Bill Clinton Made Millions from Foreign Sources,” Cleveland.com, January 27, 2009, http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2009/01/bill_clinton_made_millions_fro.html.

  48. “Not a Pygmy, but a Giant,” Indiatoday, March 17, 2003, http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-today-conclave-bill-clinton-lays-down-his-vision-for-india-with-analysis-of-key-concerns/1/206930.html.

  49. Zajac, Andrew, “Clinton Donors Wooed, Baggage and All,” The Swamp (Chicago Tribune), June 30, 2008, http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/06/obama_woos_clinton_donors_bagg.html.

  50. Zajac, Andrew, “Talks Not Cheap for Clinton,” Chicago Tribune, April 8, 2008, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2008-04-08/news/0804070831_1_sen-hillary-clinton-fee-disaster-relief.

  51. Haniffa, Aziz, “From the Bottom of My Heart, I Salute You,” India Abroad, October 10, 2008.

  52. Malhotra, Jyoti, “Whoops of Delight Greet Nuclear Deal,” BBC News, November 17, 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6158076.stm.

  53. “Democrats Will Not Hinder N-deal Passage: Hillary Clinton,” Indo-Asian News Service, September 14, 2008, http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/democrats-will-not-hinder-n-deal-passage/article1-337687.aspx. As the article points out: “Democrats’ support is crucial as they control both the House of Representatives and the Senate.”

  54. Prashad, Vijay, “What Did Hillary Clinton Do?” CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names (blog), March 10, 2009, http://www.counterpunch.org/2009/03/10/what-did-hillary-clinton-do/. Haniffa, Aziz, “‘I Have Staked a Lot on the Nuclear Deal,’” Rediff, September 23, 2008, http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/sep/23inter.htm.

  55. Haniffa, Aziz, “US Senate to Vote on N-deal on Wednesday,” Rediff, October 1, 2008, http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/oct/01ndeal2.htm.

  56. Haniffa, Aziz, “‘It’s the Greatest Moment in India-US History,’” Rediff, October 2, 2008, http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/oct/02ndeal3.htm.

  57. “Amar Singh Makes Huge Donation to Clinton Foundation.”

  58. “Clinton ‘Donation’ Complaint,” The Telegraph (Calcutta), December 24, 2008, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1081224/jsp/nation/story_10294845.jsp.

  59. Ibid.

  60. “Bill a Friend but No Dollars to Donate,” The Telegraph (Calcutta), December 19, 2008, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1081220/jsp/nation/story_10277419.jsp.

  61. “Indians Gave Millions to Clinton Foundation,” Hindustan Times (New Delhi), December 20, 2008.

  62. “Sant Singh Chatwal: Rise and Rise of an American Punjabi Hotelier.”

  63. Jacob, Sarah, “I Am Proud of What I Have Done: Chatwal to NDTV,” NDTV, February 13, 2010, http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/i-am-proud-of-what-i-have-done-chatwal-to-ndtv-16248.

  64. “I Have No Interest in Indian Politics: Chatwal,” Siasat Daily (Hyderabad, India), March 30, 2011, http://www.siasat.com/english/news/i-have-no-interest-indian-politics-chatwal?page=0%2C1.


  65. Jacob, “I Am Proud of What I Have Done.”

  66. “Amar, Jaya Expelled from SP,” Times of India (Mumbai), February 2, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Amar-Jaya-expelled-from-SP/articleshow/5527183.cms.

  67. Nelson, “Hillary Clinton’s Playboy Fundraiser Arrested over Heroin and Cocaine.”

  68. Clifford, Stephanie, and Russ Buettner, “Clinton Backer Pleads Guilty in a Straw Donor Scheme,” New York Times, April 17, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/nyregion/clinton-backer-pleads-guilty-in-a-straw-donor-scheme.html?_r=0.

  69. US Department of Justice, “Hotel Magnate Pleads Guilty to Federal Election Campaign Spending Limits Evasion Scheme and Witness Tampering,” press release, April 17, 2014, http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2014/April/14-crm-400.html.

  70. US Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York, “Hotel Magnate Sant Singh Chatwal Pleads Guilty to Scheme to Evade Federal Election Campaign Contribution Limits, and to Witness Tampering,” news release, April 17, 2014, http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/April14/2014Apr17.php.

  71. Colvin, Jill, “Hotel Magnate Pleads Guilty to Campaign Finance Fraud,” New York Observer, April 17, 2014, http://observer.com/2014/04/hotel-magnate-pleads-guilty-to-campaign-finance-fraud/.

  72. “Building the Chatwal Brand,” Leaders Magazine 33, No. 3 (2010), http://www.leadersmag.com/issues/2010.3_Jul/PDFs/Chatwal.pdf.

  CHAPTER 5: THE CLINTON BLUR (I)

  1. “Lease Event: A Decade of Difference (Clinton Foundation Event),” Hollywood Bowl, October 15, 2011, http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/tickets/lease-event-decade-of-difference-clinton-foundation-event/2011-10-15.

  2. Brown, August, “Live: Bill Clinton’s ‘Decade of Difference’ Party at Hollywood Bowl,” Los Angeles Times, October 16, 2011, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/10/live-bill-clintons-decade-of-difference-party-at-hollywood-bowl.html.

  3. US Securities and Exchange Commission, “SEC Files Settled Enforcement Action against Schering-Plough Corporation for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Violations,” news release, sec.gov, June 9, 2004, http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr18740.htm.

  4. Matthews, Christopher M., “Clinton Defends FCPA, as U.S. Chamber Lobbies for Changes to Law,” Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2012.

  5. McLean, Bethany, “The Power of Philanthropy,” Fortune, September 7, 2006, http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/18/8386185/index.htm.

  6. Rauch, Jonathan, “This Is Not Charity,” The Atlantic, October 1, 2007, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/10/-this-is-not-charity/306197/5/.

  7. Takiff, Michael, A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010), 403.

  8. Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, “Bill Clinton and How to Use Convening Power,” Harvard Business Review, September 19, 2011, http://blogs.hbr.org/2011/09/bill-clinton-and-how-to-use-co/.

  9. Foer, Franklin, “Ira Magaziner,” Slate, January 11, 1998.

  10. Magaziner, Ira, Tushar Khadloya, and Samuel Magaram, “The Clinton Foundation: Global Operations,” Brown Journal of World Affairs 15, no. 2 (January 31, 2009): 11–21, http://brown.edu/initiatives/journal-world-affairs/14.2/clinton-foundation-global-operations.

  11. “Leadership Team,” Clinton Foundation, June 2014, https://www.clintonfoundation.org/about/leadership-team.

  12. Ibid.

  13. BBB Charity Review, “Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation,” November 2013.

  14. “Charity Navigator Profile—Bill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation,” Charity Navigator, http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.profile&ein=311580204#.VFP4OFYkHG4.

  15. US Securities and Exchange Commission, “SEC Charges InfoGROUP’s Former CEO, CFOs, and Audit Committee Chair with Fraud,” news release, March 15, 2010, http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2010/lr21451.htm. Hubbard, Russell, “Deal Doesn’t End Legal Wrangling for Infogroup, Gupta,” Omaha.com, February 19, 2014, http://www.omaha.com/money/deal-doesn-t-end-legal-wrangling-for-infogroup-gupta/article_b168e1e9-5398-54c0-bca4-0144e7399998.html?mode=story.

  16. US Securities and Exchange Commission, “SEC Charges InfoGROUP’s Former CEO.” Hubbard, “Deal Doesn’t End Legal Wrangling for Infogroup, Gupta.”

  17. US Attorney’s Office, “Hotel Magnate Sant Singh Chatwal Pleads Guilty to Scheme to Evade Federal Election Campaign Contribution Limits, and to Witness Tampering,” news release, April 17, 2014, http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/April14/2014Apr17.php.

  18. Cassin, Richard L., “Dahdaleh Prosecution Collapses, Key Witnesses from Akin Gump Refuse to Testify,” FCPA Blog, December 10, 2013, http://www.fcpablog.com/blog/tag/victor-dahdaleh#.

  19. Armstrong, David, and Alan Katz, “Billionaire Found in Middle of Bribery Case Avoids U.S. Probe,” Bloomberg.com, August 14, 2014, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-14/billionaire-found-in-middle-of-bribery-case-avoids-u-s-probe.html.

  20. Harper, Tom, “Victor Dahdaleh Corruption Case: Billionaire’s Fraud Trial Collapses after Key SFO Witnesses Refuse to Give Evidence,” The Independent (UK), December 10, 2013, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/victor-dahdaleh-corruption-case-billionaires-fraud-trial-collapses-after-key-sfo-witnesses-refuse-to-give-evidence-8995972.html.

  21. Armstrong and Katz, “Billionaire Found in Middle of Bribery Case Avoids U.S. Probe.”

  22. “Officials, Senior Power Company Executives Face Fraud Charges,” DominicanToday.com, February 13, 2013, http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2013/2/13/46697/Officials-senior-power-company-executives-face-fraud-charges.

  23. Lowe, Alison, “Company Seeking BEC Contract Dismisses Fraud Case against CEO,” Nassau (Bahamas) Guardian, February 25, 2014, http://www.thenassauguardian.com/bahamas-business/40-bahamas-business/45422-company-seeking-bec-contract-dismisses-fraud-case-against-ceo.

  24. Moriarty, James F. (US ambassador to Bangladesh), “WikiLeaks—Ambassador Urges Prime Minister’s Adviser to Accelerate Energy Sector Development,” July 29, 2009, https://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/07/09DHAKA741.html.

  25. “Lease Event: A Decade of Difference (Clinton Foundation Event).”

  26. McLean, “The Power of Philanthropy.”

  27. Meeting with Indian Generic Drug Industry, Proceedings of World Community Advisory Board, India, Mumbai, January 2005, http://www.itpcglobal.org/atomic-documents/11057/11059/WorldCAB2.pdf.

  28. Quoted in Takiff, A Complicated Man, 408.

  29. Kapstein, Ethan B., and Josh Busby, “Making Markets for Merit Goods: The Political Economy of Antiretrovirals,” Center for Global Development, Working Paper 179 (August 2009), 24.

  30. Khadloya, Tushar, and Samuel Magaram, “The Clinton Foundation: Global Operations: An Interview with Tushar Khadloya and Samuel Magaram,” Brown Journal of World Affairs, January 31 and February 7, 2009.

  31. “HIV/AIDS,” MSF USA, http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/our-work/medical-issues/hivaids.

  32. Takiff, A Complicated Man, 407.

  33. Dugger, Celia W., “Clinton Makes Up for Lost Time in Battling AIDS,” New York Times, August 29, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/29/health/29clinton.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&.

  34. Jack, Andrew, “Charm Offensive Five Years after Leaving Office . . . ,” Financial Times, August 19, 2006.

  35. US Department of State, Embassy in Maseru (Lesotho), “Former President Clinton Visits Lesotho to Promote Pediatric Treatment Of HIV/AIDS And Launch New Clinic,” WikiLeaks, July 25, 2005, https://wikileaks.org/cable/2005/07/05MASERU371.html.

  36. McLean, “The Power of Philanthropy.”

  37. “Clinton Global Citizen Awards, 2009 Annual Meeting,” Clinton Foundation, https://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative/meetings/annual-meetings/2009/clinton-global-citizen-awards. Goldstein, Dana, “Bill Clinton’s Rwanda Guilt,” Daily Beast, September 23, 2012, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/09/23/cgi-bill-clintons-rwanda-guilt.html. French, Howard W., “Kagame�
�s Hidden War in the Congo,” New York Review of Books, September 24, 2009, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/sep/24/kagames-hidden-war-in-the-congo/.

  38. See for example, Kagame, Paul, “President Kagame’s Remarks at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) Joint Partnership on Nutrition,” paulkagame.com, August 5, 2013, http://www.paulkagame.com/index.php/speeches/1162-president-kagames-remarks-at-the-clinton-health-access-initiative-chai-joint-partnership-on-nutrition.

  39. Kempner, Jonathan L., “Welcome,” Mortgage Banking, September 2006.

  40. Dowd, Maureen, “The Vodka Chronicles,” New York Times, April 6, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/opinion/06dowd.html?hp.

  41. Baker, Peter. “His Changing World,” review of Giving by Bill Clinton, Washington Post, September 9, 2007. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/06/AR2007090602053.html.

  CHAPTER 6: THE CLINTON BLUR (II)

  1. Helderman, Rosalind S., “For Hillary Clinton and Boeing, a Beneficial Relationship,” Washington Post, April 13, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-hillary-clinton-and-boeing-a-beneficial-relationship/2014/04/13/21fe84ec-bc09-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html.

  2. Dwoskin, Elizabeth, “Hillary Clinton’s Business Legacy at the State Department,” Bloomberg Businessweek, January 10, 2013, http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-10/hillary-clintons-business-legacy-at-the-state-department.

  3. US Department of State, USAID, “Partnering with Power Africa,” http://www.usaid.gov/powerafrica/partner-power-africa.

  4. Helman, Christopher, “Obama’s ‘Power Africa’ Plan Greases Billions in Deals for General Electric,” Forbes, July 1, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2013/07/01/with-power-africa-plan-obama-to-grease-billions-in-deals-for-g-e/.

  5. Kolbert, Elizabeth, “Election Staffs Resemble Candidates,” New York Times, January 4, 1992, http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/05/us/election-staffs-resemble-candidates.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm. Long, Ray, and James Kimberly, “Governor Asked Lobby Firm to Help Pick Board,” Chicago Tribune, July 15, 2004, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-07-15/news/0407150257_1_new-members-rod-blagojevich-new-board. “Hecate Energy Leadership Team,” HecateEnergy, http://hecateenergy.com/who-we-are/.