Bill Clinton's Use Of Mogul's Private Jet Raises Ethics Questions

Bill Clinton's Use Of Mogul's Private Jet Raises Ethics Questions

On June 21, 2005, Bill Clinton flew to Mexico City aboard a private jet that belonged to a Canadian investment banker he was meeting for the first time.

The introduction paid off for both men.

Clinton was borrowing the jetliner to begin a four-day speaking tour of Latin America that would pay him $800,000.

Frank Giustra of Vancouver was forming a friendship that would make him part of the former president's inner circle and gain him introductions to presidents of Kazakhstan and Colombia, where he bought mineral rights.

Giustra, 50, has since put his plane at Clinton's disposal at least a dozen times to raise money for charity, his wife's presidential campaign or himself, according to US flight records and spokesmen for Clinton and Giustra.

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