Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in Washington in March.(Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP)
The acting CEO of the Clinton Foundation admitted Sunday to mistakes in how the foundation disclosed its donors, amid continued questions about donations from foreign governments while Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of State.
The $295 million foundation did not identify the donors to its Canadian arm because Canadian law bans disclosure of charitable donors without their consent, said Maura Pally, the acting CEO of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, in a statement
on the foundation's web site.
But she also said that government grants were not properly identified on the organization's tax returns, and that those returns would likely be amended after an external review.
"So yes, we made mistakes, as many organizations of our size do, but we are acting quickly to remedy them, and have taken steps to ensure they don't happen in the future," she said in a statement posted on the Clinton Foundation web site.
Questions about the Clinton Foundation's sources of funding have dogged the global charity for months, but have gotten renewed attention after Clinton formally announced she was running for president two weeks ago.
On Thursday,
The New York Times reported that the Clinton Foundation received $2.35 in donations linked to a Canadian company that was being taken over by a Russian atomic energy agency. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a 16-member federal board that includes the Secretary of State, approved the deal.
The source of that revelation is Peter Schweizer, a conservative activist and the author of the soon-to-be-released book
Clinton Cash.
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On
ABC's This Week on Sunday, Schweitzer called for a criminal investigation into the Clinton Foundation's funding, while conceding he had no direct evidence that Clinton traded favors for donations while she was Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013.
"It's not up to an author to prove crime," he said. "This is part of the broader pattern. You either have to come to the conclusion that these are all coincidences or something else is afoot."
On Friday, the anti-corruption group Common Cause — often described as liberal — called for an independent audit of the Clinton Foundation, citing "potential conflicts of interest and the influence of hidden overseas donors."
The Clinton campaign did not return a phone call seeking comment Sunday.
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