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Questionable Clinton Payments Dwarf Prior U.S. Scandals theepochtimes.com/questionable-c… via @epochtimes

In all, the Clintons raised or were paid between $132 and $147 million (between $150 and $168 million adjusted for inflation) from controversial, foreign-connected sources around the time of Hillary Clinton’s service as Secretary of State and subsequent run for president.

This amount ranks above all other major scandals in the U.S. reviewed, dating back to the first special prosecutor more than 140 years ago.

The dollar figures associated just with questionable foreign-related payments to the Clintons or their projects, many allegedly in return for policy-related favors, top all these other scandals from the annals of American history.

These sums should have reasonably figured into an investigation into the Hillary Clinton’s unsecure, home-brewed email server.

The assumption that needs to be proven or disproven is that the email server existed to allow Clinton to solicit donations for the @ClintonFdn and facilitate her family’s financial interests by cashing in on official decisions without leaving a record with the U.S. government.

For instance, according to The New York Times, Canadian businessman Frank Giustra gave more than $31M to the ClintonFdn the year after he acquired Kazakhstan-based uranium interests on a trip with former President Bill Clinton.

The following year, Giustra’s company UrAsia merged with Uranium One, a South Africa-based company, and bought U.S.-based uranium interests.

Then in 2009, Rosatom took a stake in Uranium1, including the U.S. uranium assets, in a deal approved by Hillary Clinton’s State Dept.

In 2010 Rosatom took a controlling stake, and then in 2013 bought the rest of the company—both also transactions requiring State Department signoff.

During this time, the Times found, the @ClintonFdn received an additional $2.35M just from Giunta’s family, undisclosed, in direct violation of an agreement with the White House, out of a total of $8M linked to Uranium1 --

-- , as the Russian agency acquired 1/5 of ongoing U.S. uranium production capacity in transactions approved in part by Hillary Clinton’s State Department.

Moreover, the ClintonFdn received $1M from Boeing, and Bill Clinton received $250,000 as a speaking fee of which a proposed sub-sponsor was Boeing, around the time “in a 2009 trip to Russia, Hillary Clinton made a personal pitch for a state-owned airline to buy Boeing jets.”

In addition, according to the Post, Saudi sources made contributions of between $10 million and $25 million to the Clinton Foundation in the lead-up to Hillary Clinton’s service in the State Department.

Likewise, the Algerian government gave $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation at a time when the country was “spending heavily to lobby the State Department on human rights issues,” the Post reported.

A Guardian (UK) report likewise pointed to $81 million in Clinton Foundation contributions from owners of secretive off-shore Swiss bank accounts. The donors included Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier jailed for 13 months in 2008 for soliciting sex with underage girls.

They also included Denise Rich, the ex-wife of the late billionaire and commodities trader Marc Rich, who fled to Switzerland in 1983 after being indicted by U.S. authorities for tax evasion, fraud, and racketeering, and who received a presidential pardon by Bill Clinton.

These figures total between $132 and $147M (between $150 and $168M adjusted for inflation), some of it arguably in violation of the US Constitution’s emoluments clause, and including at least one donation that flatly violated the ClintonFdn's ethics agreement with the Obama admin