Website reveals names of secret Clinton foundation donors, NewsMax article February 9, 2000, Denise Rich, $1 million minimum Clinton Foundation contribution, Foundation refuses to release the names of its donors

The following article can no longer be found at NewsMax. Apparently their archives only go back to 2007.

It was retrieved from the Wayback Machine and is therefore presented in it’s entirety.

From NewsMax February 9, 2000 via the Wayback Machine.

“Web Site Reveals Names of ‘Secret’ Clinton Foundation Donors

Officials with the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation steadfastly refuse to release the names of its donors, though on Thursday a lawyer for multimillionairess Denise Rich revealed she’d ponied up “an enormous amount.”

And last September, the Chicago Sun-Times confirmed that James H. Levin, a former strip-club owner and now president of TVR Link, had pledged to raise or donate $1 million.

But despite the supposed secrecy that shrouds the identity of other high-rolling foundation backers, the Web site FEC Info (www.tray.com) identified 20 supporters, including Rich and Levin, as early as a year ago.

Those names include California developer Walter H. Shorenstein; supermarket magnate Ron Burkle; Haim Saban, chairman of Fox Family Worldwide; Universal Studios President Lew Wasserman; New York businessman John Catsimatides; Mattel’s William Rollnick; New York designers Vera Wang and Nicole Miller; DreamWorks partners Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen; Global Crossing Chairman Gary Winnick; Former DNC Finance Chairman Alan Solomont; New York investor Stanley Shuman; fashion industry executive Arnold Simon; Massachusetts financier Tom Lee; aviation executive Farhad Azima; and internet tycoon Vinod Gupta.

In fact, the “secret” names exposed by FEC Info were reported by the Washington Post way back in October 1999. The contribution amounts listed by the Web site were also reported by the Post.

Burkle, Saban and Wasserman pledged to personally donate a whopping $5 million to $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, reported the paper.

Those pledging to raise or donate at least $1 million include Shorenstein, Winnick, Solomont, Shuman, Simon, Lee, Levin, Azima and Gupta. Pledge figures were not listed for other donors, including Ms. Rich.

Time.com reported Friday morning that Ms. Rich gave $400,000. But that figure seems improbably low.

No other donor has pledged less than $1 million, which, according to the Post, is the minimum Clinton Foundation contribution.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010417020822/http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2001/2/9/113909