WASHINGTON — More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was U.S. secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press. The meetings between Clinton and foundation donors do not appear to violate legal agreements she and Bill Clinton signed before she joined the State Department in 2009. Her calendars and emails released as recently as this week describe scores of contacts she and her top aides had with foundation donors. Those planned changes would not affect more than 6,000 donors who have already provided the Clinton charity with more than $2 billion in funding since its creation in 2000.

Source: National Post August 24, 2016 02:48 UTC