Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants to be president. Photo: Brian Snyder / Reuters
In the middle of April announced Hillary Clinton, as expected, she will participate in the presidential election in 2016, and in June she launched the campaign officially with a summit and televised address in New York.
Her escalating political ambitions seem to have been beneficial for the family Clinton’s charitable organization, The Clinton Foundation, which built his business on your applications.
During the first half of this year, the organization had 10,500 donors registered, compared to 8,800 during the first half of 2014. A long list of well-known donors also increasing their donations. It shows the documents Associated Press news agency, AP, reading.
Meanwhile, 40 previous donors disappeared from the list, or their names have been changed, according to a spokesperson for The Clinton Foundation.
The altered or deleted donors probably reflects the effect of the criticism directed against Hillary Clinton and her strong connections, via The Clinton Foundation, both powerful financial interests on Wall Street that foreign governments. Earlier stood among the German Government on the list of donors.
In several cases, very large individual donations made during the first half of 2015. The donations include $ 5,000,000 from the Pritzker family, owners of the Hyatt, and Frank Giustra , a Canadian mining magnate, who donated $ 25 million.
Clinton’s close ties to big business is also noticeable. Among the donors during the first half include banks, Barclays, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and HSBC, Cisco, Dell, Toyot and oil giant Chevron, according to AP.
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