WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — A private foundation controlled by Bill and Hillary Clinton donated $100,000 to the New York Times’ charitable fund in 2008, the same year the newspaper’s editorial page endorsed Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary, according to a report in the Washington Free Beacon.

The Free Beacon said the gift to the New York Times Neediest Cases Fund, a charity that assists underprivileged New Yorkers, was from the Clinton Family Foundation, a separate entity from the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. The Clinton Family Foundation has been the Clintons’ vehicle for personal charitable giving since 2001, the Free Beacon wrote.

The Free Beacon, a conservative news site, didn’t offer evidence of any relationship between the contribution and the Times’ Jan. 25, 2008, endorsement and said a Clinton spokesperson didn’t respond to a request for comment. But Sunday’s report had conservatives wondering if the gift came before or after the endorsement.

A Times spokesperson, in an email to Politico, called the Free Beacon story “preposterous from start to finish.” Nick Merrill, a spokesperson for the Clinton 2016 campaign, reportedly declined to comment to Politico. The Clinton campaign didn’t immediately reply to a MarketWatch request to verify the donation and to comment.

Hillary Clinton represented New York state in the U.S. Senate from 2001 to 2009.

Meanwhile, the author of the Free Beacon article tweeted this response from a New York Times spokesperson: