Here An F.O.B., There An F.O.B.

Newsweek, February, 2008 by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball

Since leaving office, Bill’s gotten by with a little help from his friends. Now he’s re-examining his circle.

Last June, Bill Clinton took a break from helping his wife run for president to take care of some business of his own. He jetted off to the Black Sea resort of Yalta for an international conference sponsored by one of his good friends: Victor Pinchuk, a billionaire steel magnate and one of the richest men in Ukraine. In recent years, Pinchuk has become a fixture in Clinton’s world, in part because Pinchuk has contributed millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation, the former president’s charity that fights AIDS and poverty. Pinchuk’s generosity paid dividends. He was a guest at the inauguration of Clinton’s presidential library in Little Rock, and he attended...

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