Heya B. :2wave: I believe this issue is connection to this one. Now WAPO says the Qatari Donations to the Clinton Foundation are suspect.
You don’t say! Actually, Rosalind Helderman does, and the Washington Post reporter notes that the smell around the Qatar-Clinton Foundation relationship isn’t just a case of hindsight.
Even at the time that the Qataris poured cash into the foundation, allegations of bribery in FIFA’s award of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar had British journalists energized. Add in the worker conditions for the venues being built, and it all adds up to a very odd — and corrupt — choice:
According to the foundation’s Web site, which lists donors based on the amounts of their total contributions organized by ranges, the Qatari committee gave between $250,000 and $500,000. The Persian Gulf nation, known for seeking to build alliances in Washington by giving money to think tanks and other influential organizations,
has given the Clinton Foundation between $1 million and $5 million over the years, according to the charity’s Web site.
The potential problems of associating with the Qatar World Cup effort were clear well before the foundation’s 2013 event. In May 2011, five months after Qatar won the right to host the cup, members of the British parliament alleged that some on FIFA’s executive committee had been paid millions to award the bid to Qatar, and British media had aggressively investigated the issue. And in July 2012, FIFA appointed former U.S. Attorney Michael J. Garcia to probe the bid process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups,
an investigation that was underway at the time of Qatar’s sponsorship of the Clinton Global Initiative.
The Qataris denied the Guardian report,
while
the Clintons said that philanthropy shouldn’t sit in judgment on its benefactors
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WaPo: Say, those Qatari donations to the Clinton Foundation seem suspect « Hot Air
