Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus Tuesday lambasted Hillary Clinton’s alleged pay-to-play scheme as secretary of state and accused Bill Clinton of phony steps to eliminate conflicts of interest.

Reacting to the latest revelations linking Hillary Clinton’s State Department to wealthy Clinton Foundation donors, Priebus said changes announced last week by the foundation — if Clinton wins the November election — amount to an admission of wrongdoing. The same conflicts of interest that would dog Clinton as president were present when she ran the State Department, he said.

“The answer is that the Clintons have never owned up to their unethical behavior, because they wanted to use the State Department and now the federal government as a way to hand out access and favors to cronies and donors.”

“It just goes to show that Hillary Clinton’s conscience only kicks in when people start asking questions,” he said.

Robert Ray, who served as special counsel in the Whitewater investigation that eventually led to Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998, said ethical safeguards announced by the Clinton Foundation “leave much to be desired.”

Under those changes, if the Democratic nominee becomes president, Bill Clinton would step down from the foundation’s board of directors and stop raising money. In addition, the foundation would stop accepting funds from corporations and foreigners. But Ray said those steps would do little to insulate a President Clinton from conflicts. Foreign interests could still easily seek to curry favor by laundering donations through U.S.-based charities, which would be unaffected by the announced changes.

It would work like this: A foreign donor would send a check to a U.S. nonprofit organization with instructions to pass the funds on to the foundation. That, in itself, is an end-run around campaign finance laws that bar donations from foreign sources. But there is no legal restriction on foundations taking money from foreign sources.

It is reasonable to assume, Ray said, that Clinton loyalists running the foundation would make the First Family aware of the donations.

“How likely is this to happen, you might ask,” he said. “In fact, it has already happened.”

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Ray pointed to reports that the Alavi Foundation — labeled by U.S. authorities as a “front” for the Iranian government — donated $30,000 to the Clinton Foundation in 2005. The Justice Department in 2009 moved to seize the organization’s property, alleging that Alavi violated U.S. sanctions against Iran. A federal judge in 2013 approved what was billed as the largest terrorism-related asset forfeiture in U.S. history, although an appeals court overturned that decision last month.

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Ray said the Clinton Foundation never returned the money. What’s more, Ray said, The Wall Street Journal estimated that companies that lobbied the State Department during Clinton’s tenure donated more than $26 million to the foundation.

“Statements of intention, even from a former president, mean little or nothing without strong, independent oversight,” he said.

Ray pointed to an ethics agreement designed to ward off conflicts of interest between Clinton and the foundation. But Ray said it amounted to “little more than a PR stunt” and “wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on.” Clinton failed to live up to commitments to report all of the contributors and to ensure that all foreign donations were properly vetted.

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Declaring that there is a “fire burning at the Clinton Foundation,” Priebus endorsed Republican nominee Donald Trump’s call for a special prosecutor. He said the Justice Department is too riddled with conflicts to fairly conduct an investigation into the foundation.

Judicial Watch, which has sued for access to Clinton’s records as secretary of state, released 725 pages of emails indicating that Clinton aides intervened on behalf of mega-donors to the foundation who sought meetings with the secretary of state and other favors.

According to public records, the Clinton Foundation has raised between $21 million and $65 million from Middle Eastern sources. Even now, Priebus said, the identity of many of those donors are unknown. He said contributions to the Canadian arm of the foundation and the Clinton Health Access Initiative — which constitute the bulk of donations to the family’s nonprofit empire — may be unaffected by the announced changes.

“All of that money should have never been accepted, and all of it needs to be returned today,” Priebus said.

Priebus said Clinton is burdened by perceptions of dishonesty and untrustworthiness, adding that revelations about the foundation have forced her to “pull off an election-year gimmick of trying to sweep these issues under the rug.”

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Why act now, a little more than two months before the election?

“The answer is that the Clintons have never owned up to their unethical behavior, because they wanted to use the State Department and now the federal government as a way to hand out access and favors to cronies and donors,” he said.

“Stonewalling and avoiding transparency — those are the hallmarks of the Clinton machine. Even in areas which are supposed to be philanthropic endeavors.”

The Trump campaign also kept up the pressure on Clinton Tuesday, ridiculing efforts to remove potential conflicts of interest.

“The Clinton Foundation’s laughable attempt to address conflicts of interest fails to include many of its umbrella organizations like the Clinton Health Access Initiative, which alone represents nearly two-thirds of all foundation spending,” spokesman Jason Miller said in a prepared statement. “The bottom line is that conflicts of interest with foreign governments and special interests would continue unabated in a Hillary Clinton administration under their insufficient and unacceptable proposal.”