One week after the official start of her campaign to become President of the United States, a new book states that of the $105 million Hillary Rodham Clinton’s husband, Bill Clinton received for speechmaking over 12 years, approximately half of it arrived during her four years as U.S Secretary of State. This raises questions about money that flows in and out of the private Clinton Foundation and what actions she took – if any – while in office in exchange for money.

Peter Schweizer reports in his book, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich that, while in office, the Clinton Foundation took in “hundreds of large transactions,” some of which “put millions in their own pockets.” The former speech writer for President George W. Bush said that a “pattern of financial transactions” happened alongside the initiation of U.S. policies that favored “those providing the funds.”

An example published recently in The New York Times illustrates how a free-trade agreement with Colombia provided benefit to a company clearly associated with a large Clinton Foundation donor. During her presidential campaign in 2008, Hillary Clinton stated her opposition to the deal because of Colombia’s disappointing workers’ rights history. Later, according to the International Business Times, Frank Giustra as well as the company he founded, Pacific Rubiales, donated “millions” to the Clinton Foundation. By 2010, the State Department (under Clinton’s leadership) celebrated Colombia’s human rights record, enabling Pacific Rubiales to profit.

The website Breitbart tells another story. In 2012, a mining company in North Carolina received one of two prized permits to explore for gold in Haiti, the first to be delivered in over 50 years. Clinton’s brother, Tony Rodham, is a company board member.