A 2009 email exchange revealed that top Clinton aides were asked to introduce Gilbert Chagoury, a Clinton Foundation donor, to a key State Department official overseeing work on Lebanon.
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Huma Abedin, a longtime confidante of Clinton who is now working for her campaign, replied to Band: “We have all had him on our radar”. The legal group Judicial Watch released 296 pages of emails as part of a lawsuit against the agency.
In one email exchange released by Judicial Watch, Doug Band, an executive at the Clinton Foundation, tried to put billionaire donor Gilbert Chagoury – a convicted money launderer – in touch with the US ambassador to Lebanon because of the donor’s interests there.
Since the State Department redacted the name of the person that was a big donor to the Clinton Foundation and wanted to work with the power makers in an African country, we don’t know the depth of this potential crime, but it does look like a crime.
The State Department has turned over 44 previously unreleased Hillary Clinton email exchanges that the Democratic presidential nominee failed to include among the 30,000 private messages she turned over to the government a year ago. Band also asks that Abedin call Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman to connect him to Chagoury.
The Justice Department in July did not bring charges against Clinton for her handling of classified information, and FBI Director James Comey said that while Clinton was “extremely careless” with her use of private email to conduct government business, he believed “no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case”. “I’ll talk to jeff”. During a line of questioning about improper relationships between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department. “And you can bet if Cheryl Mills knew about this inquiry, then Hillary Clinton did, too”. Chief among that evidence is a 2009 exchange between Clinton aide Huma Abedin and Clinton Foundation staffer Doug Band, according to Bloomberg.
Judicial Watch noted the emails were not released until after the FBI concluded its investigation into Clinton and are from a period of time when Clinton said her email server was not properly documenting and archiving correspondence.
Although she submitted some 55,000 pages of emails for review, many of them were conveniently left out because they weren’t “work-related”.
Sen. John Cornyn is stepping up pressure on Attorney General Loretta Lynch to respond to reports that the Department of Justice ignored an Federal Bureau of Investigation request to investigate the Clinton Foundation.
The Clinton Foundation has yet to comment on the Judicial Watch document release.
“In context I don’t think it was as bad”, Capuano said, adding he believes Trump should be cut some slack as a non-professional politician with a straight-talking style.
The Trump campaign seized at the new batch of emails, citing them as evidence of Clinton being corrupt.
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But Mark Corallo, a Washington-based spokesman for Chagoury, said in a statement Wednesday that Chagoury had been seeking to contact someone in the State Department to provide his insight into the coming elections that June in 2009 in Lebanon, where he has deep ties and experience.
