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 Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal 
  
 The headline on the website Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir 
 V. Putin€s latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an 
 era when its precursor served as the official mouthpiece of the 
 Kremlin: €Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.€ 
  
 The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic 
 energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with 
 uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the 
 American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world€s largest 
 uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of 
 controlling much of the global uranium supply chain. 
  
 But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not 
 just the Russian president, but also a former American president 
 and a woman who would like to be the next one. 
  
 At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the 
 Canadian mining industry, who have been major donors to the 
 charitable endeavors of former President Bill Clinton and his 
 family. Members of that group built, financed and eventually 
 sold off to the Russians a company that would become known as 
 Uranium One. 
  
 Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in 
 the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of 
 all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since 
 uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for 
 national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee 
 composed of representatives from a number of United States 
 government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed 
 off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton€s wife, 
 Hillary Rodham Clinton. 
  
 As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in 
 three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records 
 show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. 
 Uranium One€s chairman used his family foundation to make four 
 donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not 
 publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. 
 Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly 
 identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made 
 donations as well. 
  
 And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to 
 acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received 
 $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with 
 links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock. 
  
 At the time, both Rosatom and the United States government made 
 promises intended to ease concerns about ceding control of the 
 company€s assets to the Russians. Those promises have been 
 repeatedly broken, records show. 
  
 The New York Times€s examination of the Uranium One deal is 
 based on dozens of interviews, as well as a review of public 
 records and securities filings in Canada, Russia and the United 
 States. Some of the connections between Uranium One and the 
 Clinton Foundation were unearthed by Peter Schweizer, a former 
 fellow at the right-leaning Hoover Institution and author of the 
 forthcoming book €Clinton Cash.€ Mr. Schweizer provided a 
 preview of material in the book to The Times, which scrutinized 
 his information and built upon it with its own reporting. 
  
 Whether the donations played any role in the approval of the 
 uranium deal is unknown. But the episode underscores the special 
 ethical challenges presented by the Clinton Foundation, headed 
 by a former president who relied heavily on foreign cash to 
 accumulate $250 million in assets even as his wife helped steer 
 American foreign policy as secretary of state, presiding over 
 decisions with the potential to benefit the foundation€s donors. 
  
 In a statement, Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton€s 
 presidential campaign, said no one €has ever produced a shred of 
 evidence supporting the theory that Hillary Clinton ever took 
 action as secretary of state to support the interests of donors 
 to the Clinton Foundation.€ He emphasized that multiple United 
 States agencies, as well as the Canadian government, had signed 
 off on the deal and that, in general, such matters were handled 
 at a level below the secretary. €To suggest the State 
 Department, under then-Secretary Clinton, exerted undue 
 influence in the U.S. government€s review of the sale of Uranium 
 One is utterly baseless,€ he added. 
  
 American political campaigns are barred from accepting foreign 
 donations. But foreigners may give to foundations in the United 
  
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