The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch on Tuesday released an additional 296 pages of emails from Hillary Clinton, including 44 that it said were not previously disclosed to the State Department by the former secretary of state.
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Chagoury is a close friend of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and a top donor to the Clinton Foundation, Judicial Watch said.
According to CBS News, there were several exchanges between Abedin and a top Clinton Foundation worker.
Abedin, who had overlapping roles with the State Department, the foundation and a consulting firm led by Band, responded quickly: “We have all had him on our radar”.
Band, they said, had been operating as an aide to former President Bill Clinton and not as a Foundation official.
Abedin responded with the name of the recent US ambassador to Lebanon, Jeffrey Feltman, who was serving as acting assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs. In an interview with CNN Wednesday, Feltman denied he ever met with Chagoury.
Huma Abedin and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a visit to Lusaka, Zambia, in 2011.
Chagoury, according to Corallo, said that his contributions to the Clinton Foundation were based on the “good philanthropic work around the world – especially in Africa”.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
In early 2009, a donor to Clinton’s 2008 campaign, Lana Moresky, asked Clinton directly for help finding an associate a job at the State Department.
The Clinton Foundation was not part of the recent investigation into her private server; it was separate.
But the news was buried in a cavalcade of bad news for Donald Trump: a prominent Republican Senator said she would not vote for Donald Trump, and 50 veteran Republican officials said Trump would put the nation’s security “at risk”.
As for Band’s request to introduce a wealthy donor to the USA ambassador to Lebanon, Trudeau said this type of interaction would not be uncommon.
Trump said it showed that under Clinton, “you pay, and you’re getting things”. Ms. Abedin, in fact, worked for the Clinton Foundation while she was also working at the State Department.
The Clinton campaign said the emails did not relate to her work at the foundation before she became secretary of state.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at Osceola Heritage Park, in Kissimmee, Fla.
Clinton called the development “good news”, but she continued using a private Blackberry tied to her private server.
Mills also said she recalls speaking to the same staffer – Bryan Pagliano – about the company overseeing the server set up.
To establish a criminal conflict of interest, authorities would have to prove that a government employee received something of value, like a job, or money, in exchange for the favor.
But it suggests that some donors to the Clinton Foundation may have seen their gifts as means to buy access – and it points to much bigger potential problems.
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Further “only a small number of those emails bore markings of classified information”.
