Clinton foundation helps Hillary debt

U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton's debt-ridden presidential campaign is getting help from her husband's charitable foundation, aides confirm.

The expired campaign has sold its huge e-mail list to a number of groups, including this week to the William J. Clinton Foundation, ABC News reported.

The report quoted political insiders as saying the list is second only to that of President-elect Barack Obama in reaching potential donors and in its size and efficiency.

Chelsea Clinton, in an e-mail to her mother's supporters at HillaryClinton.com, points out the Clinton foundation's work on HIV/AIDS and asks for year-end contributions.

The price paid by the foundation for the campaign e-mail list doesn't have to be reported until next month, and Clinton aides declined to say how much was paid, ABC reported, but the price could easily be several hundred thousand dollars. Hillary Clinton is working under a deadline because she isn't allowed to raise campaign donations after she is, as expected, confirmed as secretary of state.

Hillary Clinton's campaign still owes about $6.3 million to vendors, but the senator has written off the $13.1 million in her own loans to the campaign. That means any money raised now won't go toward paying off those loans to the senator, the report said.