Former President Bill Clinton has revealed tens of millions in donations to his foundation from foreign nations that Hillary Rodham Clinton may have to negotiate with as secretary of state.
Saudi Arabia was the most generous nation, giving between $10 million and $25 million, according to the list published today on the foundation’s Web site. (A warning: the site was crippled by high traffic throughout the day.)
Only two donors to the William J. Clinton Foundation gave more than $25 million: the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, dedicated to relieving poverty for children in developing countries, and the disease relief group, UNITAID.
Norway donated $5 million to $10 million; Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Brunei all contributed between $1 million and $5 million, as did the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office. The Dutch national lottery gave between $5 million and $10 million. An Irish government aid program gave at least $500,000.
All told, the Foundation raised more than $500 million from more than 200,000 donors for humanitarian projects around the world and the construction of the presidential library in Little Rock, Arkansas. Besides numerous foreign governments, the list includes companies and individuals who might have an interest in United States foreign policy.
One of the leading private donors is Amar Singh, an Indian politician. Singh met with Senator Clinton in September while on a trip to Washington to lobby for a controversial agreement for India to obtain civilian nuclear technology from the United States.
An Indian business association, the Confederation of Indian Industry, also donated between $500,000 and $1 million.
Among the biggest contributors overall are the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, an overseas aid program by the Australian government and a Dominican Republic agency dedicated to combatting AIDS. All three gave between $10 million and $25 million.
Donors in the $10 to $25-million range include:
- Stephen L. Bing, a Los Angeles entertainment producer who was a Clinton fund-raiser during the presidential campaign and who also gave more than $4.8 million to liberal groups involved in the elections.
- Fred Eychaner, a Chicago media mogul.
- Theodore W. Waitt, co-founder of the Gateway computer company.
- Tom Golisano, founder of the Paychex payroll processing company in suburban Rochester, NY. Golisano also donated $1 million to the host committee for this year’s Democratic convention, and financed his own campaigns three times for New York governor.
- Frank Giustra, a Canadian merchant banker who finances mining ventures. Giustra flew Clinton to Kazakhstan in 2005 aboard his private jet as the former president was soliciting donations for his foundation. Clinton praised Kazakhstan’s authoritarian president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and Giustra later entered agreements to invest in government-controlled uranium projects there.
The contributions also include $250,000 to $500,000 from Denise Rich, whose husband Marc Rich received a controversial pardon from Clinton in his final hours in the White House.
Former securities lawyer William Lerach, who is now serving two years in federal prison for his role in a kickback scheme, gave between $100,000 and $250,000.
Even Richard Mellon Scaife, a Pittsburgh media titan who helped finance efforts to discredit Clinton during his presidency, gave $100,000 to $250,000.
Federal law does not require a former president to reveal his foundation’s financial benefactors, and Clinton had declined to do so until now.
But when Obama asked Hillary Clinton to join his cabinet, the former president agreed to release his list as part of a nine-point agreement intended to keep his activities from compromising his wife’s work as the nation’s top diplomat.
The list released on Thursday does not detail the precise amounts of the donations, nor the dates they were given, instead breaking down contributors by general dollar ranges.
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#1. SHAHZAD KHAN 08.18.2009
The objects for which the foundation has been constituted are given in preamble and include the following:
To provide all the facilities to the blind children to get special education.
To provide free education, books, uniforms to the poor, needy and deserving students and disabled children also grant scholarships to the intelligent and hard working students.
To promote finance, establish run, manage and maintain hospitals, diagnostic centers, dispensaries and other related services to provide medical care with special emphasis on eye’s diseases.
To establish and maintain libraries, research facilities and other amenities for the promotion of study and knowledge amongst children and adults.
To establish training institutes for the health professionals to raise their skills on advance basis.
To establish institutes for the skilled education, like school, college, computer centers, higher education / training center etc.
To provide free medicines to poor and needy patients.
To foster co-operation and co-ordination with the between like minded societies and association.
Relief and financial assistance will be provided to the people who may suffer from Earth Quake, Famine diseases calamities and those who are in distress.
Wheelchairs and Artificial parts of body i.e limbs, arms, feet etc. will be given to deserving and poor special persons.
Efforts will be made to provide dowry and other necessary articles and the occasion of marriages of orphans and needy persons both male and female.
To do all lawful things for the fulfillment of above mentioned aims and objectives.
To help the foreigner women’s visits in Pakistan.
To help the disabled children.
To improve children with Learning Disabilities like dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, attention deficit disorder and Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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