'After 2005, a number of Indian interests, including an Indian politician that admits now that his donation to the Clinton Foundation wasn't even his money – those donations flowed. 'Hillary Clinton at that time supported a killer amendment to stop that from happening.' 'In 2005, the Indian government wanted those restrictions lifted,' Schweitzer said. 'Hillary Clinton supported that position.' nuclear technology, because this violated the nonproliferation treaty,' he recalled. 'In 1998 the Indian government conducted nuclear tests Bill Clinton imposed restrictions on the export of U.S. Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, on Tuesday spelled out the context of what he said were donations from 'a number of Indian interests' to Clintonworld. The Post notes that Hillary Clinton’s financial links with India and Indian-Americans were well established when she ran for president in 2008.Īt one point then-Senator Barack Obama apologized to her after a campaign staffer made a joke in a memo – referring to her as '(D-Punjab).' He said lobbying her on the Indo-American nuclear matter was 'the sole purpose of my visit.'īut his ties to the former first family go back to at least 2005, when Bill Clinton traveled to India to attend a launch party for a rural public health initiative overseen by Singh.Ĭlinton was accompanied on that trip by Sant Singh Chatwal, am Indian hotel tycoon who had introduced the two. Peter Schweizer's book, 'Clinton Cash,' is due in stores on May 5 She later cast a vote – abandoning her own previous opposition – in support of opening a flood of nuclear technology to New Delhi. Singh visited with Hillary on Capitol Hill in September 2008. He had 'facilitated the payment,' he said, according to the book. Later, Schweizer writes in his book, Singh told Indian government officials that the Clinton Foundation listed his name 'erroneously' as a donor on its financial discloures. ![]() I won't deny anything,' he initially told reporters.īut moments later Singh acknowledged that the 'payment could have been made by someone else on his behalf.' The Times of India reported in December 2008 that Singh admitted as much. He 'admits now,' the author said Tuesday, 'that his donation to the Clinton Foundation wasn't even his money.' If it were his own money, Schweizer told the New York Post, that would mean 'Singh had given between 20 and 100 percent of his entire net worth to the Clinton Foundation!' OLD BUDDIES: Former president Bill Clinton (center) traveled to India in 2005 to attend a launch party for a rural health program overseen by Amar Singh (left) the two are pictured with then-Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mulayam Singh Yadav (right)
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