Book Said to Document Government Favors for Clinton Donors

A book set for publication next month purports to show that donors to Hillary Clinton's family foundation and groups that hired her husband for speaking engagements received government favors while Clinton led the State Department, the New York Times reported Sunday.

Author Peter Schweizer, a former George W. Bush consultant, cites as an example “a free-trade agreement in Colombia that benefited a major foundation donor’s natural resource investments in the South American nation,” the Times said. The book also says more than $1 million in payments were made to former President Bill Clinton “by a Canadian bank and major shareholder in the Keystone XL oil pipeline around the time the project was being debated in the State Department,” according to the Times.