Goldman Sachs reportedly paid Bill Clinton $200,000 for a speech in 2011 just months before the investment bank started to lobby Hillary Clinton’s State Department, according to an International Business Times report. According to the Times, the “discovery that Bill Clinton accepted a six-figure payday from Goldman Sachs just before the bank sought the ear of his wife’s department” will amplify even more the scrutiny “of the Clinton family’s often overlapping personal, philanthropic and official business interests.” That scrutiny, the Times notes, has reached a “fever pitch amid leaks” from Government Accountability Institute President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer‘s forthcoming book, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich. Mainstream media outlets have independently confirmed at least eleven revelations from Schweizer’s book, which has rocked the political world and sent the Clinton campaign scrambling. Though “Goldman’s objective in lobbying the State Department could not be immediately discerned,” records reviewed by the Times “show that the firm was specifically lobbying the department on ‘proposed legislation’ linked to a series of budget bills.” One of the bills reportedly “continued congressional authorization for the Export-Import Bank, a government-backed lender whose financing was critical for the prospects