WASHINGTON — The Clinton Foundation received as much as $26.4 million in previously undisclosed payments for speeches the Clinton family delivered, it revealed late Thursday.
The new disclosure comes following questions over whether the foundation failed to fully comply with a 2008 promise to reveal all its donors so they could be publicly scrutinized for possible public conflicts of interest.
The Clinton Foundation had included that revenue in previous reports, but the payments for the 97 speeches, going back to 2002, hadn’t been reported as donations. The foundation posted the new information Thursday evening, following questions about discrepancies in its accounting.
The speech payments from major corporations both foreign and domestic, as well as universities, were reported in ranges rather than exact amounts, making it impossible to calculate the precise total the Clintons earned for the charitable foundation. The total payments to the foundation range between $12 million and $26.4 million.
A trio of groups paid between $500,000 and $1 million for President Bill Clinton to speak, according to the new filings, available on the foundation’s website. They include Leaders and Company Ltd., which publishes Nigeria’s ThisDay newspaper; Hanwha Group GmbH, a South Korean conglomerate; and DMC Communications Ltd. on behalf of All Ireland Scholarships, an Irish undergraduate scholarship program.
Eight groups paid $250,000 and $500,000 for Hillary Clinton to speak, including Citibank, Goldman Sachs and the University of California-Los Angeles.
Hillary Clinton has faced intense scrutiny of the charitable foundation’s fundraising during and after her time as secretary of state.
