article_snippet: It's an interesting and important debate, and most Americans would probably approve the idea of putting "bad" money to good use.  
article_snippet: Who gave, and why, is hard to figure out.
article_snippet: Ideally that would settle the matter, but there's the possibility that the elaborate formal safeguards may have been breached or ignored.
article_snippet: (To be sure, secretaries of state are always lobbying foreign countries to purchase American products.
article_snippet: It's part of their job.)
article_snippet: In 2012, the British bank Standard Chartered paid $667 million in fines for violating sanctions against Iran and HSBC paid $1.92 billion to settle claims of illegally doing business for customers in Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Myanmar and allowing drug dealers to launder money through the British bank Standard Chartered.
article_snippet: But there's no scenario in which voters can be expected to ignore or support the former secretary of state if the former secretary of state is shown to have been simultaneously arranging pay-to-play deals with businesses and governments seeking help or favors from the U.S. government while the former secretary of state was in office.