Hillary Clinton Discloses Charity Connection After Inquiry

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton did not include her role at her family foundation on five Senate financial disclosure reports that were filed after the foundation was started in 2001, reports The Washington Post.

Senate ethics rules require lawmakers to disclose their affiliations with family-run philanthropies.

The Clinton Family Foundation has given $1.25-million to charity and allowed Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, to write off more than $5-million in personal income since 2001, the paper reports. Mrs. Clinton is treasurer and secretary of the family foundation.

In 2002, Mrs. Clinton mentioned the foundation on her ethics report in connection with an $800,000 donation that year, but did not disclose her position, the Post reports.

Mrs. Clinton’s spokesman, Philippe Reines, told the paper the failure to report the foundation and her role was an oversight.

Her office amended the reports to include the information after the Post’s inquiries. She is the latest in a string of lawmakers who failed to cite their involvement in such foundations, the newspaper reports.

Some critics say the lack of enforcement of ethics-disclosure requirements allows crucial information about lawmakers’ finances to remain unknown.

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