Crimes of leaders have been financial in nature, such as campaign finance and insider trading violations

Non-profit, non-partisan charity has raised $84 million for aid efforts in India, beginning with a 2001 earthquake in Gujarat

A conservative, Washington DC-based newspaper on Monday published a report that detailed the felonious criminal pasts of 'numerous' leaders of a charity formed in 2001 by former President Bill Clinton.

The American India Foundation, which the former president initially formed as a aid for rescue efforts for a devastating earthquake in Gujarat 15 years ago, is one of many charity spin-off groups at least loosely affiliated with the New York-based Clinton Foundation, the parent group.

The Washington Free Beacon on Monday said 'numerous' board members or chiefs of the group have been convicted of felonies, mostly financial crimes such as insider trading or campaign finance violations.

Clinton himself is still honorary chairman of the non-profit, non-partisan AIF, which is currently led by Ravi Kumar, who has a long background in the corporate finance sector.

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Former President Bill Clinton founded The American India Foundation in 2001, initially as a way to promote and organize earthquake relief efforts to India

The AIF is currently led by CEO Ravi Kumar

Former AIF trustee and Hampshire Hotels President Sant Chatwal was recorded by federal agents telling an undercover informant that campaign donations is 'the only way' to curry favor from politicians

Along with Clinton, AIF was founded by former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta, a former Bill Clinton donor who was convicted in 2011 of sending insider trading tips to a former AIF trustee and sentenced to two years in prison. Gupta is no longer listed as an AIF trustee on the group's Web site.

Several of the improprieties have involved AIF's trustees.

A trustee involved in the Gupta case, Raj Rajarantam, was himself convicted in 2011 and sentenced to 11 years in prison for using the illegal advice to build up a fortune estimated at $63 million.

Another former AIF trusteee, Sant Chatwal, the former president of Hampshire Hotels, pleaded guilty in 2014 to campaign finance violations - specifically, using straw donors to send $180,000 to political candidates including Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign.

Federal agents had recorded Chatwal telling an undercover informant about how money bribes politicians.

'Without that nobody will even talk to you. When they are in need of money…the money you give then they are always for you,' Chatwal said at the time.

'That’s the only way to buy them, get into the system. … What else is there? That’s the only thing.'

Chatwal was sentenced to three years of probation and fined $500,000. He is still an AIF trustee.

Yet another former AIF trustee, Sudesh Arora, owned a company that pleaded guilty to contract fraud in 1993 for failing to test computer parts in military equipment it sold to the U.S. military.

An early AIF board member Vinod Gupta, who would go on to found InfoUSA, was charged by the federal Securities and Exchange Commission with misusing InfoUSA money in 2010.

As part of a lawsuit filed by shareholders accusing Gupta of purchasing private flights for Bill and Hillary Clinton, he resigned from the company and paid a $7.4 million settlement.

Former AIF trustee Naveen Jain went on to become CEO of InfoSpace but was discovered in a civil lawsuit to be guilty of violating insider trading rules in 2003 and later was ejected from the company.

Rajat Gupta, a co-founder of AIF along with Clinton, was convicted of insider trading and sentenced to three years in prison

Gupta at his October 2012 sentencing in New York

One AIF former board member was accused of misappropriating funds from a later company to provide private flights for Bill and Hillary Clinton

Even the foundation's honorees haven't been free of criminal stains, reported The Free Beacon. This past spring, the CEO of the now-defunct Satyam Computer Services, Ramalinga Raju, was sentenced to seven years in prison for corporate fraud - but his sentence was later suspending pending appeal.

Satyam has been dubbed 'India's Enron' by critics, but Raju was once honored by AIF.

Neither AIF nor a Bill Clinton spokesman agreed to comment to The Free Beacon on its story. Attorneys for Arora and Rajarantam could not be reached for comment, the paper said.

AIF's Web site says the charity has 'changed the lives of more than 2.3 million of India's less fortunate' through variety of anti-poverty programs, education programs and disaster relief efforts.

'The American India Foundation has since built on this vision and created countless opportunities for India’s poor to live successful, productive lives while creating impactful change at an unprecedented scale,' reads a message atop the group's Web site.

AIF did not respond to an emailed request for comment. A spokesperson for Bill Clinton was reached and did not comment.

Attorneys for Vikram Chatwal, Arora, and Rajaratnam could not be reached. Sant Chatwal’s attorney confirmed the details of his sentencing; the others did not return requests for comment.