Hillary Clinton’s presidential run is prompting new scrutiny of the
Clintons’ financial and charitable affairs—something that’s already
proved problematic for the Democratic frontrunner, given how closely
these two worlds overlap. Last week, the New York Times examined
Bill Clinton’s relationship with a Canadian mining financier, Frank
Giustra, who has donated millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation
and sits on its board. Clinton, the story suggests, helped Giustra’s
company secure a lucrative uranium-mining deal in Kazakhstan and in
return received “a flow of cash” to the Clinton Foundation, including
previously undisclosed donations from the company’s chairman totaling
$2.35 million.
Giustra strenuously objects to how he was portrayed. “It’s
frustrating,” he says. And because the donations came in through the
Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (CGEP)—a Canadian affiliate of
the Clinton Foundation he established with the former president—he feels
doubly implicated by the insinuation of a dark alliance.(READ MORE)
