Clintons Release 2009 Donor List for Ex-President's Charitable Foundation
WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign countries, including Norway and Oman, have contributed to former President Bill Clinton's charity, and donors including Donald Trump, the Coca-Cola Company and the Elton John AIDS Foundation pitched in as Hillary Rodham Clinton served her first year as secretary of state in 2009.
A donor list released Friday by the William J. Clinton Foundation shows that in all, Norway has given $10 million to $25 million to the charity since its founding roughly a decade ago. Oman gave $1 million to $5 million. The list gave only cumulative ranges rather than precise donations and did not say how much each contributor gave last year.
The Clintons agreed to disclose the names of donors to the foundation annually to address concerns about potential conflicts of interest between the former president's fund-raising efforts abroad and Mrs. Clinton's role in helping to direct Obama administration foreign policy.
President Obama made the disclosure a condition of his selection of Mrs. Clinton for the post. When the first list was released in December 2008, the two senior lawmakers on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Richard G. Lugar, Republican of Indiana, said the disclosure was "designed to establish greater transparency and predictability with regard to the activities of the Clinton Foundation in the context of Senator Clinton's service as secretary of state."
The William J. Clinton Foundation works in the United States and around the world on issues like climate change, economic development and health care, particularly H.I.V. and AIDS. It also runs the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Ark., which includes Mr. Clinton's presidential library.
Last year's donors included the Saudi Arabian businessman Nasser al-Rashid, who has given at least $1 million to the foundation; professional golf's PGA Tour Inc., which donated $50,001 to $100,000 over all; and Mr. Trump, who has given $50,001 to $100,000 over all.
Several foreign governments that appeared in the foundation's first disclosure in 2008 did not give last year.
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