'Clinton Cash' publisher corrects '7 or 8' inaccurate passages
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Now, at least for Kindle eBook readers, those passages with errors have been deleted or edited in an updated version of the book.
Amazon on Tuesday blasted out an alert to purchasers of the book — which investigates alleged connections between the Clinton Foundation donors and Hillary Clinton’s work at the State Department, and debuted at No. 2 on The New York Times’ best-seller list for the week of May 24 — notifying them that “significant revisions have been made.”
Among them, Schweizer says in the original version of the book that TD Bank, a major shareholder in the Keystone XL pipeline, paid Bill Clinton for speeches and then said it would “begin selling its $1.6 billion worth of shares in the massive but potentially still-born [sic] Keystone XL crude pipeline project” after Hillary Clinton left office. But as his source on the sale of TD Bank’s shares, Schweizer used a press release that was revealed to be fake in 2013.
That passage has been removed from the most recent Kindle version of the book.
Schweizer also appears to have edited a passage in which he claims Bill Clinton was paid $200,000 per speech by Irish billionaire Denis O’Brien for three speaking engagements he delivered in Ireland. The implication was that, while Hillary Clinton’s State Department was giving O’Brien’s company taxpayer money through the Haiti Mobile Money Initiative, “O’Brien was in turn making money for the Clintons.”
But Clinton was not paid personally for those speeches, according to his spokesman. And the Clinton Foundation was paid for just one of the three speeches. The new version deletes any mention that Clinton was paid for those speeches, and edited a claim that Clinton received $225,000 for a speech in Jamaica sponsored in part by O’Brien’s company Digicel. Another edit appears to have been made on the timing of a speech Clinton gave in Jamaica, which was also paid for by O’Brien.
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