tinydancer
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You pay to play with the Clintons. For face time and influence you really have to cough up big bucks.
Of course, President Clinton denied that he helped get Mr. Giustra his deal.
"Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton’s charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month.
The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra’s more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton’s inner circle, an exclusive club of wealthy entrepreneurs in which friendship with the former president has its privileges.
Mr. Giustra was invited to accompany the former president to Almaty just as the financier was trying to seal a deal he had been negotiating for months."
After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Of course, President Clinton denied that he helped get Mr. Giustra his deal.
"Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton’s charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month.
The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra’s more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton’s inner circle, an exclusive club of wealthy entrepreneurs in which friendship with the former president has its privileges.
Mr. Giustra was invited to accompany the former president to Almaty just as the financier was trying to seal a deal he had been negotiating for months."
After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0