The Clinton Foundation is going to keep on accepting foreign government funding for Hilary’s presidential election campaign but just from the 6 countries who supports it, as the charity reported on Wednesday.
Clinton said that the charity work of the foundation is a source of pride, but it lured a mounting criticism from opponents and as well as from some fragments of the U.S. media.
Foreigners are not permitted to donate money to election campaigns so critics are saying that that the money may as well be donated to her family’s charities.
The board of directors of the foundation has also voted to publish the donors’ names 4 times a year instead of doing so annually. Clinton has stepped down from the board last Sunday, although, her husband, former President Bill Clinton and their daughter Chelsea are still members.
Craig Minassian, a foundation spokesman, said in a statement, “While it’s common for global charities to receive international support, it’s rare to find an organization as transparent as the Clinton Foundation.”
Clinton and her husband had signed on a similar transparency agreement with Obama’s incoming presidential administration for neutralizing questions about conflicts of interest.
Officials at Clinton’s charity told that key parts of the agreement had been broken as a complete list of donors have not been published since 2010. The new foreign government donations hadn’t been submitted for ethics review to the State Department either.
The charity said this had been the outcome of failure to notice. A Clinton spokesman refused to answer any queries of when Clinton learned of this breach and how she had reacted to it.
A spokesman of Clinton, Minassian has refused to comment on the transparency measures announced on Wednesday and how it will be handled any differently compared to the previous measures for preventing any more breach.
The foundation said that it will still be accepting funding from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Netherlands, which funds for working on global climate change and economic development.
A larger charity associated with the foundation, the board of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, is still settling on new measures of transparency.
The Clinton Global Initiative, a part of the foundation, will not be accepting foreign government funds except for what they stated as “meeting attendance fees” after an event which will be taking place in Morocco in May.