Donald Trump attacked the Clintons on Thursday over the latest blockbuster hacked email released by WikiLeaks, which details how a close Bill Clinton aide helped rake in tens of millions for the former president while his wife was serving as secretary of state.
Doug Band sent the 12-page memo in 2011 to Bill Clinton, his daughter Chelsea, several Clinton Foundation board members and lawyers, and 'special adviser' John Podesta – whose email was hacked and who is now Hillary Clinton's campaign manager.
'Just today we read about Clinton confidant Doug Band bragging that he had funnelled tens of millions of dollars to "Bill Clinton, Inc." through the Foundation donations, paid speeches and consulting contracts,' Trump said in a farm animal expo center in rural Springfield, Ohio.
Trump, cheered on by a crowd estimated at 7,000 people, blasted Hillary Clinton as the new figurehead leading what amounts to an organized crime family.
'The more emails WikiLeaks releases, the more lines between the Clinton Foundation, the secretary of state's office and the Clintons' personal finances – they all get blurred,’ the Republican presidential nominee said.
Wikileaks published the Doug Band memo on Wednesday, opening up a new window into the financial links between the Clinton Foundation, the former president's personal fortune and his wife's tenure as America's highest ranking diplomat.
Band and another aide, the memo states, helped secure $66 million from ventures including speaking fees.
Using his role as the president of his own consulting firm Teneo Holdings, Band wrote, he worked to raise funds for the foundation and Clinton personally.
'Throughout the past almost 11 years since President Clinton left office, I have sought to leverage my activities, including my partner role at Teneo to support and raise funds for the Foundation,' the close friend-of-Bill wrote.
Under a section titled 'For-Profit Activity of President Clinton (i.e. Bill Clinton, Inc),' Band said he and deputy Justin Cooper brought Clinton all four of his advisory arrangements at the time.
These yielded more than $30 million in personal income, added to another $66 million to be paid out over the following nine years as part of Teneo's consulting arrangement.
One of these roles was serving as honorary chairman of Laureate International Universities, a chain of for-profit colleges that paid Bill Clinton $3.5 million per year from 2010 until 2015, when the contract ended and his wife started her run for president.
Band said neither he nor Cooper were compensated directly for their work. It's common for Washington power-brokers to make money 'on the back end' of such arrangements, using them to build their client lists for other contracts.
Both men did receive salaries from the Clinton Foundation.
Band also said Teneo was responsible for negotiating a number of speaking fees for Clinton, including $1.15 million from the Swedish telecom giant Ericson and $900,000 from banking behemoth UBS.
Band at the same time solicited clients to donate to the Clinton Foundation.
This included $4.33 million over six years from the Coca-Cola Company and more than $1 million from Barclays Capital.
Band's partner at Teneo, Declan Kelly, helped introduce Clinton to several top executives of clients including UBS Global Wealth Management and Dow Chemical. After these meetings, these companies often upped their contributions to the Clinton Foundation.
Band’s memo was also sent to lawyers who were conducting a review of the foundation as Chelsea Clinton was taking on a larger role with the philanthropy, and after she raised red flags about Band's dual roles at Teneo and the foundation.
Chelsea became concerned when she learned that a member of his staff - who reported to Band - was making calls to British lawmakers 'on behalf of President Clinton,' for Teneo clients including Dow Chemical.
She said her dad did not know about the calls and that they would 'horrify' him, and that she feared Teneo was 'hustling business at CGI' – the foundation-operated Clinton Global Initiative.
Clinton ultimately broke with Teneo, returning all but $100,000 of the money he had been paid.