The Democratic nominee said
the report is further evidence that "he puts his personal and business
interests ahead of the laws and the values and the policies of the United
States of America".
Hillary Clinton claims her
presidential rival Donald Trump may have violated US law by breaching the trade
embargo on Cuba.
Her suggestion follows a
report in Newsweek that a hotel and casino company controlled by Mr Trump
explored business opportunities with the island nation in the late 1990s.
Mr Trump denies the charge.
"Today we learned about his efforts to do business in Cuba which appear to
violate US law, certainly flout American foreign policy," Mrs Clinton told
reporters on her campaign plane.
"And he has
consistently misled people in responding to questions about whether he was
attempting to do business in Cuba."
Mr Trump has denied the
report, telling New Hampshire's NH1 News he "never did business in
Cuba".
"I never did anything
in Cuba. I never did a deal in Cuba," the Republican candidate for
president said.
According to the report, Mr
Trump was interested in gaining a foothold should Washington loosen or lift the
restrictions under the embargo.
Mr Trump's company spent at
least $68,000 for a 1998 trip to Cuba at a time when any corporate expenditure
in the country was prohibited without US government approval.
Newsweek said the company
did not spend the money directly, but funnelled the cash for the Cuba trip
through an American consulting firm called Seven Arrows.
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