Two years ago The American Lawyer tried and failed to persuade the Clinton Foundation to disclose how much it had paid its lawyers at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett to conduct a review of the charity’s governance and operations.
Thanks to WikiLeaks emails hacked from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager and longtime adviser John Podesta, we now have some answers. But some of the emails between the Clinton foundation and its lawyers also raise questions about whether Simpson Thacher and executives at the organization went out of their way to mask both the scope and cost of the review.
