article_snippet: The controversy has bled into a separate review of the Clinton Foundation's fundraising practices during Clinton tenure in Barack Obama's administration after the Washington Post discovered that Clinton family's charity accepted money from foreign governments that were also lobbying the State Department.
article_snippet: the Clinton Foundation admitted last month to accepting a donation from the Algerian government in the amount of $500,000 for disaster relief in Haiti while Hillary was secretary of state and did not disclose it to the Algerian government.
article_snippet: it had, at that time, an agreement with the Obama administration that allowed it to keep taking money from foreign governments it had done business with the past.
article_snippet: But Algeria was a new donor, meaning Algeria broke the rules when Algeria cashed the country's check.
article_snippet: Of importance is that Algeria was lobbying the State Department at the time and spent roughly the same amount on that effort as Algeria gave to the then-secretary's family foundation.