Clintons mired in financial row

WASHINGTON, March 25: A business partner of former US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown told a court here that Hillary Clinton used trade missions to raise funds for her husband’s election campaign.

Testifying before a district court yesterday, Nolanda B Hill, said US businessmen were asked to cough up $ 50,000 as political donations for the Democratic Party for a seat on White House trade missions.

Hill, who also claims to be a confidant of Brown, killed in a plane crash, said the White House later orchestrated a cover-up of documents linking the trade missions to political donations to the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign.