http://lnr.politicususa.com/smoke-machine-smoke-gets-eyes-1495/
Smoke Machine Smoke Gets in Our Eyes

Re:  the Clinton Foundation “scandal,” which looks like another product of the right-wing smoke machine.

It is a truism of U.S. politics that anyone who donates big bucks to anyone’s campaign for office can get an audience with the officeholder. That’s how the system works and every single politician rolls with it because not to do so would needlessly offend donors, whose help may well be needed in future campaigns. There’s absolutely no violation of ethics laws when an officeholder meets with someone who has contributed directly to that officeholder’s political campaigns.

Lots of entities, foreign and domestic, donated lots of money to the Clinton Foundation, before, during, and after Clinton’s time as Secretary of State. 

 Clinton Foundation, which is not an officeholder of any kind, but a 401(c)(3) charitable entity.