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knoxnews.com: News stories by the Associated Press

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former President Bill Clinton earned nearly $6 million in speaking fees last year, almost all of it from foreign companies, according to financial documents filed by his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The documents obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press ...

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Belmont Club — The Associated Press reports that former President Bill Clinton — to whom Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is married, received millions of dollars from foreign sources. WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton earned nearly $6 million in speaking fees last year, almost all of it from foreign companies, according to financial documents filed by his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The documents obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press show that $4.6 million of the former president’s reported $5.7 million in 2008 honoraria came from foreign sources, including Kuwait’s national bank, other firms and groups in Canada, Germany, India, Malaysia, Mexico and ...

Bill Clinton, The Six Million Dollar (Foreign) Man
Hot Air » Top Picks — Bill Clinton, The Six Million Dollar (Foreign) Man posted at 8:50 am on January 28, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Right on time, the AP reports that Bill Clinton raked in almost six million dollars in speaking fees from foreign sources — just in 2008.  By “right on time”, of course, I mean far too late to do anything about some obvious conflicts of interest this presents for Hillary Clinton as the now-confirmed Secretary of State.  For instance, the government of Kuwait paid the former president over a third of a million dollars for a single appearance through its national bank (via Instapundit ): ...

N/A — And we find out about this now: “Bill Clinton pulled down $5.7 million in speaking fees last year – almost entirely from foreign sources, including nearly $2.1 million after news circulated that Hillary Clinton was in line for Secretary of State.“  That high percentage of income in less than two months at the end of the year no doubt is a coincidence.  And nobody will make much of it. No doubt there will be a range of opinion.  You must love the way DC allows pols to report there income so precisely: “In addition to Bill Clinton’s income from speaking fees, Hillary Clinton ...