Fun information - Bill Clinton's Donor list has some recognizable names
Part of the vetting process for the Hildebeast becoming SecState is that Bill has to release his financial information including his donor list - names and numbers.
The
Washington Post took a look at it and found some interesting entries:
Clinton Donor List Includes Familiar Names
The 2,922-page list of donors to former President Bill Clinton's charitable foundation is chock full of friends, foreign leaders and, most notably, several questionable characters from the president's past.
We have published a partial list of donors on our Web site so you can browse or search it, and post a comment if you have a pertinent link or bit of information about any of the names.
Clinton agreed to release the list of big-name donors as part of his wife's new job as incoming Secretary of State in President-elect Barack Obama's administration. Donors that are getting particular attention early on include:
-- Frank Giustra, the Canadian mining financier who gave an estimated $31.3 million to Clinton after he traveled with the ex-president in 2005 to secure a uranium-mining contract in Kazakhstan (Giustra personally gave between $10 million and $25 million and his joint sustainable growth initiative with the president gave another $1 million to $5 million); [Addendum: Matt McKenna, a spokesman for Clinton, said that the former president did not in fact fly with Giustra on the same plane in September 2005.]
-- William S. Lerach, the former American lawyer who is serving a two-year prison term for his involvement in a lucrative kickback scheme involving class-action lawsuits (Conde Nast dubbed him the "scourge of corporate America");
-- Alfonso Fanjul Jr., the Cuban emigre and sugar mogul who has heavily lobbied Washington and Clinton about his business interests. His family fled Castro's Cuba and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel noted in 2002 that the Fanjul has been faulted "for making big contributions to politicians and using their clout to get favorable treatment for the sugar industry";
The Washington Post website only has 721 of the donors so far - lots of recognizable names on there and some very large numbers...
Posted by DaveH at December 18, 2008 10:34 PM