Election security

FBI informant who spied on Russian firm that bought Uranium One says Moscow paid MILLIONS to influence Hillary Clinton while the deal was under review

Russian influence in the United States wasn't limited to meddling with the 2016 election, according to an FBI informant who has told three congressional committees that Moscow tried to buy influence with Hillary Clinton by steering money to her family foundation.

William Douglas Campbell says Russia paid the American lobbying firm APCO Worldwide $3 million over the period of a year in the early days of the Obama administration, when Hillary Clinton was secretary of State.

APCO was supposed to lobby a multi-agency board called the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to approve the Russian company Rosatom's purchase of Uranium One, a Canadian company that controlled 20 per cent of the U.S. uranium supply.

The U.S. secretary of State is one member of the CFIUS.

The company was also expected to provide pro-bono support to the Clinton Global Initiative as a way of currying favor with Hillary Clinton.

An internal CGI document dating from the fall of 2011 described APCO's fee-free help as being worth $275,000 during one year.

APCO officials have acknowledged providing more than $1 million worth of support to the Clinton Foudation arm since 2008.