Total Amount Given to Pro-Clinton Super PACs: $1,000,000
Bernard Schwartz is a Manhattan-based investment banker. A lifelong Democrat, Schwartz kicked his political giving into high gear in the 1990s during former President Bill Clinton’s tenure. At the time, Schwartz ran a telecommunications company that was part of a controversial satellite deal with China. Republicans accused Clinton of allowing the deal to go through because of Schwartz’s fundraising support. As a Washington Post article from 1998 noted, “The Clinton administration has been good to Bernard Schwartz, and he to it.”
