article_snippet.sent: Hillary Clinton was helping approve Russia's purchase of US uranium production as Hillary Clinton foundation received millions from executives tied to the deal .
article_snippet.sent: In one case a foundation run by the chairman of Uranium One, a nuclear energy company tied to Russia, gave the Clintons' family philanthropy millions while the U.S. State Department gave the U.S. State Department stamp of approval to the U.S. State Department's purchase of U.S. uranium.
article_snippet.sent: An investigation by The New York Times uncovered the connections, based on interviews and public records in Canada, the U.S. and Russia.
article_snippet.sent: The Russian uranium story is one piece of a larger puzzle.
article_snippet.sent: Then-senator Hillary Clinton listens to a briefing from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United Statesthe United States, the organization where Hillary Clinton would later help approve Russia's purchase of US uranium assets .
article_snippet.sent: The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation Kazakhstan Kazakhstan helped paved the way for a major foundation donor Frank Giustra to start a booming uranium business there .
article_snippet.sent: Frank Giustra Frank Giustra got a sweetheart uranium mining deal from Nazarbayev in 2008 with Hillary Clinton's help, a year after launching the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative with the Clinton Foundation; Frank Giustra pledged $100 million and half Frank Giustra earnings from mining to the Clinton Foundation .
article_snippet.sent: In 2005 Hillary Clinton flew to Kazakhstan with a Canadian uranium mining financier Frank Giustra and met Kazakhstan.
article_snippet.sent: Hillary Clinton's appearance is seen as helping Frank Giustra secure a deal to start Hillary Clinton UrAsia uranium company in Kazakhstan, which would later merge with Uranium One.
article_snippet.sent: Russia would ultimately benefit from the deal and Hillary Clinton's involvement, and was able to secure more uranium production in Russia own backyard when took majority control of Uranium One in 2010 and 100 per cent control in 2013.
article_snippet.sent: News of the Clinton Foundation ties to uranium executives comes after criticism of Hillary Clinton's ties to additional Eastern European money, from the Ukrainian oligarch that became one of their foundation's biggest donors.
article_snippet.sent: A spokesman for Hillary Clinton's fledgling presidential campaign said that the Uranium One deal went through the normal approval process and that investigative journalist Peter Schweizeris 'twisting previously known facts into absurd conspiracy theories.' Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States Foreign Investment in the United States the United States also includes representatives from most large arms of government, such as the Justice Department, Department of Commerce and Department of Defense.
highlights_snippet.sent: Hillary Clinton helped approve that $610 million sale in 2010, which gave Vladimir Putin-linked company control over one-fifth of America's uranium .
  