Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid put a big dent in the Clintons’ income, which went from $28 million in 2014 to just over $10 million in 2015, while the vast majority of charitable donations by the couple went to their own charity, their tax returns reveal. They cover Clinton’s first three months as secretary of state in early 2009, a period for which Clinton did not turn over any emails to the State Department a year ago.
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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.
The group says 44 of those pages had not been previously turned over to the State Department. The Republican Party has said that Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, sought to help contributors to the foundation in a “pay-for-play” scheme.
In emails from April 2009, Doug Band, who worked at the foundation and served as an aide to former President Bill Clinton, contacted Abedin and Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff, for “a favor” on behalf of a foundation associate. Abedin responded, “We have all had him on our radar” and that “Personnel has been sending him options”.
According to CBS News, there were several exchanges between Abedin and a top Clinton Foundation worker.
“This is yet more evidence that Hillary Clinton lacks the judgment, character, stability and temperament to be within 1,000 miles of public power”, said Stephen Miller, Trump’s national policy director. “According to a 2010 investigation by PBS Frontline, Chagoury was convicted in 2000 in Switzerland for laundering money from Nigeria, but agreed to a plea deal and repaid $66 million to the Nigerian government”.
“The right-wing organization behind this lawsuit has been attacking the Clintons since the 1990s and no matter how this group tries to mischaracterize these documents, the fact remains that Hillary Clinton never took action as Secretary of State because of donations to the Clinton Foundation”. Her aides indicated that the department was working on the request.
Band said that it was “important to take care of [redacted]”.
“If it were a cause for distrust, it’s inconceivable that all these prominent national security people … would’ve endorsed her”, he added.
The official also downplayed Band seeking to connect a Clinton Foundation donor with someone who did work on Lebanon-related issues at the State Department.
The new set of emails was obtained by Judicial Watch by way of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the group against the Department of State previous year.
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Previously disclosed Clinton e-mails showed the secretary interacting with donors to her campaign and foundation, particularly if they seemed to have expertise on some matter of worldwide relations or diplomacy. But the Justice Department declined to press charges against Clinton for her handling of classified information related to the server earlier this year, with FBI Director James Comey saying while she was “extremely careless”, it was his judgment that “no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case”.
