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.
ImageNewsweek said Mr Trump's company was interested in gaining a foothold in Cuba
"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."
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".
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.
The magazine cited interviews with former Mr Trump executives, internal company records and court filings.
The embargo is expected to be fully lifted after President Barack Obama announced in 2014 that the US was re-establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba after more than 50 years.
The US embassy reopened in Havana last year and Mr Obama made a historic visit to the nationin March.
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