Former chief White House ethics lawyer: Clinton Foundation controversy is just a distraction from bigger issue
- Written by Richard Painter, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law, University of Minnesota
Hillary Clinton’s critics claim that federal ethics laws were broken when her subordinates at the State Department arranged meetings and other favors for donors to the Bill and Hillary Clinton Foundation.
Evidence is still surfacing as to who at the State Department did what and why. But as a former chief White House ethics lawyer in the Bush...