Clinton speeches raised at least $12 million for foundation


              Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to child care workers during a visit to the Center For New Horizons , Wednesday, May 20, 2015, in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to child care workers during a visit to the Center For New Horizons , Wednesday, May 20, 2015, in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) - The Clinton Foundation said Thursday that Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton have raised at least $12 million to support the family's philanthropy since 2002 by delivering paid speeches.

The speeches may have brought in as much as $26.4 million to the foundation, which released a list of nearly 100 speeches and a broad range of the fees the Clintons received for delivering them.

The fees benefited the Clinton Foundation, the global charity the former president started after he left the White House. The foundation's finances have come under heavy scrutiny as Hillary Rodham Clinton seeks the White House for a second time.

The foundation's voluntary release of the speaking fees followed last week's filing of the former secretary of state's financial disclosure at the start of her presidential campaign. Bill and Hillary Clinton reported they earned more than $30 million combined in personal income since January 2014, with most of it coming from paid speaking engagements around the globe.

Most of the fees paid to the foundation were for speeches by former President Bill Clinton, who raised between $8.7 million and $19.35 million by delivering 72 speeches during the past decade. Hillary Clinton brought in between $2.95 million and $6.25 million for 16 speeches on the foundation's behalf. Daughter Chelsea Clinton generated between $370,000 and $800,000 during that period.

Craig Minassian, a spokesman for the foundation, noted that the foundation has listed more than 300,000 donors on its website and "posting these speeches is just another example of how our disclosure policies go above and beyond what's required of charities."

He said the funding allows the foundation "to effectively and efficiently use our resources to implement programs that are fighting HIV/AIDS and childhood obesity, increasing opportunity for women and girls, lifting people out of poverty and combating climate change."

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