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Hillary Clinton's aspirations to become the next US president might not be based only on the desire to advance her political agenda. The author of the bestseller 'Clinton Cash' told RT she may also be seeking to increase fees for the family's speeches.

With the Clintons having already announced that they are going to carry on with their Clinton Foundation and "take large inflated speaking fees from overseas," the nation can expect that their paychecks will keep growing, Peter Schweizer, author and executive producer of the Clinton Cash documentary said.

"As an ex-president he [Bill Clinton] was making $175,000 a speech. She [Hillary Clinton] becomes secretary of state - literally overnight that triples. That will increase even more if she becomes president, so we are going to expect more of the same: larger flow of money, because, of course, when you are paying the spouse of the president you can expect more in return than when you're paying the spouse of the secretary of state," he suggested.


The money the Clintons have received "often comes from people and places... that have a history of corruption," like from Africa or Indian politician Amar Singh, who is involved in bribery scandals and believed to have paid them up to $5 million, the author alleges, while wondering if all of "these individuals are throwing large sums of money at the Clintons"without wanting something in return.

"I think it's naive to think that they are just doing this out of the kindness of their hearts," he said.

The Clintons have managed to keep that system up and running despite controls US officials have tried to put in place to assure more transparency. In 2008, President Obama required the Clintons to disclose all donations to the Clinton Foundation as a condition of Hillary Clinton becoming secretary of state, Schweizer said, adding that the then-secretary of state to be also promised complete transparency to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

"But we now know that... there are literally more than a thousand donations that they did not disclose, that they hid, oftentimes involving very questionable transactions. So those controls were set in place, but the Clintons ignored them," Schweizer told RT, adding that legal punishment might even not be applicable in all the cases.

"The Clintons are very smart lawyers; they know where the legal lines are. By breaking these agreements they may not have broken the law per se, but they broke their agreement with the president of the United States, and yet they continue to just move along."