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These huge donations to the Clinton Foundation violated an agreement between the Clintons and the Obama administration that the Clinton Foundation would not accept foreign donations while she was Secretary of State. According to an April 23 Reuters report, the Clinton Foundation also did not report foreign donations in its tax filings to the IRS in 2010, 2011, and 2012 and is has begun to file amended tax returns for these years.
According to an April 18
Newsweek article, the Clinton Foundation also accepted donations from a firm that was violating nuclear trade sanctions against Iran. Interpipe, a Cyprus-incorporated company owned by Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk, sold oil pipelines to Iran in 2011 and 2012 in violation of U.S. sanctions but was not sanctioned for these sales while Clinton was Secretary of State. On her show “The Kelly File,” Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly reported that between 2009 and 2013, the Clinton Foundation received at least $8.6 million from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. Kelly reported that Pinchuk also pledged more than $20 million more to the foundation.
Based on my experience working as Chief of Staff to John Bolton when he was Under Secretary of State for Arms Control in the George W. Bush administration, the Inter-pipe sales of pipeline equipment appears to be a serious violation of U.S. trade sanctions against Iran that required the State Department to impose immediately impose sanctions against this company and its officers. Congress needs to determine why sanctions were not imposed in this case and whether pressure was put on lower level State Department officials to overlook this violation."
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"A donation to the Clinton Foundation goes a long way, no? Interestingly, the WSJ article mentions nothing about the Iranian angle. Nicholas does point out, though, that Pinchuk had retained a lobbyist for business at the State Department during this period, making a mockery of Hillary’s pledge to cut off foreign donations and to refrain from engaging foundation donors as Secretary of State. And that lobbyist was none other than Douglas Schoen, a longtime 'Clintonista' who briefly headed the PUMA movement after Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination in 2008.
This makes the scandal over the Lincoln Bedroom rentals look like an AirBnB test venture.
Hillary’s State Department was for sale, and everyone knew it except the American people."
Pay-for-play? Hillary hosted dinner for foundation donors — including an alleged Iran-sanctions violator - Hot Air