Wednesday, April 29, 2015

1,100 undisclosed donors to the Clinton Foundation, mostly from foreign sources

Joshua Green and Richard Rubin report at Bloomberg Politics that Canadian mining financier, Frank Giustra, who gave millions to the Clinton Foundation, isn't happy.
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.

“We’re not trying to hide anything,” he says. There are in fact 1,100 undisclosed donors to the Clinton Foundation, Giustra says, most of them non-U.S. residents who donated to CGEP. “All of the money that was raised by CGEP flowed through to the Clinton Foundation—every penny—and went to the [charitable] initiatives we identified,” he says.
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