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Sen Clinton's family charity not disclosed: Paper

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Topics: /tags related_articles/ created2007-02-27T11:25:35+05:30/created template71/template archive2007/02/27/sen-clintons-family-charity-not-disclosed--paper-1172559027.xml/archive webpath2007/02/27/sen-clintons-family-charity-not-disclosed--paper-1172559027.html/webpath filenamesen-clintons-family-charity-not-disclosed--paper-1172559027/filename modified_date1970/01/01 05:01:00/modified_date published_date1970/01/01 05:01:00/published_date mobilelinkhttp://news.oneindia.mobi/2007/02/27/18460.html/mobilelink breadcrumbfont face="Arial" size="3" color="#CB6733" » /fonta href="/news/"News/afont face="Arial" size="3" color="#CB6733" » /fontFull story/breadcrumb subnavigationnews/subnavigation picture/ data_content Washington, Feb 27:  Sen Hillary Rodham Clinton failed to list on annual Senate financial disclosure forms the family charity she operates with former president Bill Clinton, The Washington Post reported today.br /br /Sen Clinton, a Democratic presidential contender, has been an officer in the family foundation since it was established in 2001, but none of her ethics reports since then have disclosed that fact as required by congressional ethics rules, the newspaper said.br /br /The foundation has enabled the Clintons to write off more than five million dollars from their taxable income since 2001, while dispensing 1.25 million dollars in charitable contributions over that period, the newspaper reported.br /br /The newspaper said Clinton's office immediately amended her Senate ethics reports to add that information late Monday after receiving inquiries from The Washington Post.br /br /''The details of the Clintons' charitable family foundation and Senator Clinton's role in it have always been publicly available but, in an oversight that leaders of both parties have made, it was inadvertently omitted from her Senate filing, which has been corrected, '' Clinton's spokesman Philippe Reines told the newspaper.br /br /Several other high-profile politicians have come under scrutiny for omitting family foundations from their financial disclosure reports, including former Senate majority leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. They amended their disclosures, the Post said.br /br /Reuters/data_content added_date2007-02-27T12:20:49+05:30/added_date tags politicsusclinton, washington post, senate, bill clinton, taxes, house, speaker, foundations, disclosure
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007,12:21 [IST]
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007,12:20 [IST]
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