Bill Clinton Appeared at Event Only After Donor Offered Foundation $500,000

Former US President Bill Clinton spoke at a charity event and accepted a lifetime achievement award only after the organization made a half-million dollar donation offer to the Clinton Foundation, The New York Times reported.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The donation was made late in 2014 after the foundation sent the charity an invoice “amounted to almost a quarter of the evening’s net,” the article read.

The donation was made late in 2014 after the foundation sent the charity an invoice “amounted to almost a quarter of the evening’s net.”

Former executive director Sue Veres of the Happy Hearts Fund charity that invited Clinton told the news outlet that he had initially rejected the invitation on numerous occasions “until there was a thinly veiled solicitation and then the offer of an honorarium.”