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Clinton Will Give Indicted ImClone Chief's Donations to Charity
Saturday, August 10, 2002
WASHINGTON — Reversing course, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she would donate thousands of dollars she received from indicted ImClone founder Sam Waksal to charity.
Clinton and a soft money account set up on her behalf by Democrats received $33,000 from Waksal, campaign finance records show.
Clinton will donate the $7,000 received by her Senate campaign and her political action committee to a charity that has yet to be determined, the New York Democrat's spokeswoman, Karen Dunn, said Friday.
The remaining $26,000 was donated to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's New York Senate 2000, a soft money account set up on Clinton's behalf.
"She recommends that they do the same," Dunn said.
A spokeswoman for the DSCC said Clinton's request was being taken under advisement. "But our policy in the past has been once it's spent it's spent,'' Tovah Ravitz said.
On Thursday, Dunn told the New York Post that Clinton "has no plans to return the money at this time.'' Dunn added that she did not believe that Waksal gave the senator any money this year.
During her 2000 Senate bid, Waksal pumped $26,000 into the soft money account the DSCC set up for Clinton. He also chipped in the maximum allowable $2,000 to her election campaign account. Last year, Waksal donated another $5,000 to Clinton's political action committee, HILLPAC.
Waksal, 54, was arrested in June on charges that he secretly advised family members to sell their ImClone stock on Dec. 27 after learning that his biotech company's cancer drug, Erbitux, had been rejected by the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA decision was made public two days later.
Earlier this week, Waksal was charged with obstruction of justice and bank fraud in addition to previous securities fraud and perjury charges.
In the past, Clinton has handed over questionable campaign money.
In January, Clinton said she would turn over nearly $8,000 in contributions from Enron and its accountant, Arthur Andersen, to a charitable fund set up to help employees of the bankrupt energy giant.
A spokesman for Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Friday he would return his own $3,000 contribution from Waksal. |
