A New York Times article today says that Senator Clinton accepted over $150,000 in campaign contributions from executives at International Profit Associates (I.P.A.), a consulting company owned by disbarred New York lawyer James R. Burgess.

Not only does Burgess have a criminal record for attempted larceny and patronizing a 16-year-old prostitute, the company itself has a sordid reputation. Sexual harassment charges are being pressed by the EEOC against I.P.A. on behalf of 113 female employees of the company. I.P.A. has also received 470 complaints from the Better Business Bureau and is being investigated by the Illinois attorney general for deceptive marketing tactics.

I.P.A. is one of the largest contributors to Mrs. Clinton’s re-election campaign. Senator Clinton’s office says she did not know of the company’s background when she accepted the donations. However, I.P.A.'s problems were well documented in the media as early as 1997. Clinton has not yet returned the money, although other politicians, including the Governor of Illinois, have done so upon learning more about the nature of the the company.