Will Wall Street money make Clinton pull her punches?
Hillary Clinton has vowed to get tough on Wall Street, but her relationship with the powerful in the financial sector is both complicated and nuanced.
Her record and her family ties suggest a healthy working relationship with Wall Street, if not a cozy one.
Here are five ways Clinton is inexorably linked to Wall Street.
... Hillary Clinton’s most eye-popping Wall Street relationship involves her and her husband’s acceptance of speaking fees. Of the $150 million in speaking fees that have flowed to the Clintons since 2001, Wall Street ponied up over $8 million in speaking fees. In 2013, the year she left office as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton earned $1.575 million from big banks, including $225,000 from Bank of America. Among her husband’s fees were $900,000 from Bank of America.
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