Clinton aides unfazed by pay-for-play accusations

BOSTON: Clinton staffers are brushing off what opponents are calling a “pay-for-play” scandal — the stunning revelation that more than half of the people who met with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state were pouring money into the controversial Clinton Foundation.

“I think there’s a lot of political criticism, and that’s natural in an election year,” Craig Minassian, chief information officer for the Clinton Foundation, said on Herald Radio yesterday. “I think critics are going to be critics of whatever we do.”