(REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov SZH/DH) Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev with former US President Bill Clinton in Almaty in 2005. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev greets former U.S. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well." Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. "Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. "Uranium One's chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million," The Times reports. Clinton was required to disclose all of her foundation's contributors before she became secretary of state, but the Clintons did not disclose millions of dollars donated by the chairman of Uranium One while the review of the deal was ongoing.In January 2013, despite assurances to the contrary, a subsidiary of Rosatom took over 100% of the company and delisted it from the Toronto Stock Exchange.On June 29, 2010, Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 to speak in Russia by an investment bank with ties to Russia's government that had a buy rating on Uranium One’s stock. Investors in Uranium One gave money to the Clinton Foundation starting in 2005 and through 2011.To take a majority stake in Uranium One, it needed approval from a special committee that included the State Department, which Hillary Clinton led at the time. The Russian atomic agency decided it wanted to own 51% of Uranium One in June 2010.Russia’s state-owned atomic agency, Rosatom, bought a 17% stake in Uranium One in June 2009.
Uranium is used for nuclear weapons, and it's considered a strategic asset to the US. Uranium One's mines account for 20% of the uranium mined in the US.Canadian company Uranium One owned uranium mines in the US and Kazakhstan."As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation," The Times reports. The story involves a Canadian company called Uranium One, a Russian investor, the State Department, and The Clinton Foundation. (AP/) Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in March 2009.Ī new scandal hit Hillary Clinton on Thursday thanks to an exhaustive report from Mike McIntire and Jo Becker at The New York Times.
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