Attorney General Loretta Lynch has blocked the FBI from opening up a public investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
According to a CNN report on Wednesday, the FBI sent the Justice Department a request earlier in the year, but the DOJ insisted the FBI cease any investigative activity associated with the Clinton Foundation.
The Clinton Foundation was not part of the recent investigation into her private server; it was separate. The FBI went to Justice Department earlier this year asking for it to open a case into the foundation, but the public integrity unit declined. The Justice Department had looked into whether it should open a case on the foundation a year prior and found it didn’t have sufficient evidence to do so.
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Dailycaller.com reports:
Opposition to the FBI’s request — if the report is accurate — is likely to raise even more questions about whether the DOJ is acting impartially. Attorney General Loretta Lynch came under fire last month after it was revealed that she met in secret on her government airplane with Bill Clinton in late June.
The meeting occurred days before the FBI and DOJ were set to interview Hillary Clinton as part of its investigation into whether Clinton or her aides mishandled classified information by using a private email system.
Lynch has insisted that she did not discuss the investigation with the former president. It has also been reported that the Clinton campaign has considered asking Lynch to remain as attorney general if Hillary Clinton is elected president.
The CNN report helps settle a question that government officials have largely avoided addressing.
FBI Director James Comey declined last month to say whether an investigation into the Clinton Foundation was underway.
Clinton’s campaign spokesman Brian Fallon recently said that there is “no evidence” that the Clinton Foundation is or was under investigation.
Though the DOJ decided not to pursue a public integrity investigation, new questions about the Clinton Foundation were raised on Tuesday after the watchdog group Judicial Watch released a new set of emails showing that a top adviser for the non-profit asked Clinton’s State Department aides to help out several individuals — including a major Clinton Foundation and a close associate.
The Clinton Foundation official was Doug Band. He has worked for Bill Clinton for years and now runs the consulting firm Teneo Strategies.
In an April 25, 2009 email, Band asked Clinton aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills to help put Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury in touch with the State Department’s “substance person” on issues related to Lebanon.
Chagoury, a longtime Clinton donor who was once a close associate of Nigerian dictator Sani Abache, has given between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation. In 2009 he pledged $1 billion to help with a project undertaken by the Clinton Global Initiative, a Clinton Foundation offshoot which Band helped advise.
“This is very important,” Band said in his request to Mills and Abedin. “He’s key guy there and to us.”
In another April 2009 email, Band forwarded an email to Mills, Abedin and another Clinton aide, Nora Toiv, entitled “A favor.”
The individual seemingly asked for a job with the State Department.
“Important to take care of [redacted],” Band wrote.
On April 29, 2009, Band emailed the same trio of advisers asking: “Can someone pls call [redacted]? He calls me every day and we owe him some attention.”
It is unclear who the individual was, but Abedin told Band that she would place the call. Band’s remark that “we owe him some attention” suggests that the functions of the Clinton Foundation overlapped with the State Department.
Abedin and Toiv later landed a job at Band’s firm, Teneo.
The Clinton campaign denied to CNN that the Band emails were evidence of collusion between the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
“Neither of these emails involve the secretary or relate to the Foundation’s work,” Clinton campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin told the network. “They are communications between her aides and the President’s personal aide, and indeed the recommendation was for one of the Secretary’s former staffers who was not employed by the Foundation.”
Notably, Schwerin’s comment does not address Band’s request on behalf of Chagoury, the major Clinton Foundation donor.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
thats scum trash for you.
Is this supposed to be a surprise or a shocking revelation? Attorney General Loretta Lynch gives every indication of being a hand-picked puppet placed in the Attorney General’s seat because she would be an obedient lap dog of President Obama. Loretta Lynch has been and most likely will continue to be Obama’s and his side kick Hillary Clinton’s stooge. That’s why Loretta Lynch is there folks; wake up and smell the rotten coffee brewing in our nation’s capitol. Everything about this Presidential race on the part of the Democrats and the current Administration has been a total and complete sham and set up. We all know it’s rigged; we all read reports of the dead bodies piling up around Hillary Clinton and watch a string of supposed honest Federal Employees like Loretta Lynch and James Comey stand in front of us and lie through their teeth to protect criminals, distort facts, block investigations and deflect our attention from the real issues; Obama and Hillary’s conflicts of interest and potential acts of treason against the American people. Why do you think they’ve got the mainstream big shots in their pockets to perform their little lap dog tricks of distorting media coverage in favor of Hillary Clinton and against Mr. Trump? The mainstream media attacks Mr. Trump at every turn, yet fondles and pampers Hillary Clinton and works so hard to always make Obama appear innocent. Where’s the truth and justice in America? How and why are career criminals being favored and rewarded time after time? Where is integrity in our leadership? Everything about the U.S, Government is a slight of hand show with lots of smoke and mirrors thrown in to hide, deceive, control and manipulate the American people. America has not been, “Of the people, by the people and for the people” for a very long time. Political favors are bought, sold and traded in Washington DC like chips on a poker table. Foreign interests, U.S. lobbyists, special interest lawyers all line up to get favors doled out, albeit at a high financial donation to the Clinton Foundation. I believe that the American people are smarter and stronger than Obama and Hillary give us credit for. And that the American people are getting sick and tired, of being sick and tired about how this country is run. When the American people finally “hit bottom” and have had enough of the garage being peddled in Washing DC, they will being to stand up and confront the lies and injustices in this country. Open your eyes folks & keep sniffing the air for the smoke of America burning because Obama and his crony Hillary Clinton want to steal and destroy our great nation. In God I still do trust!
And I trust in the Revolution that is long past due. Good thing that current day Americans weren’t around for the first Revolution or we’d still be British citizens. So, yes, America … you need to wake up and understand that if this thing can’t be taken care of in the normal way because the “normal path” is being blocked from every direction, then the DC criminals should understand that they will be facing a second American Revolution.
Judge Andrew Napolitano: The FBI is investigating the Clinton Foundation because the evidence of public corruption while in office is overwhelming
one has to ask ,,,Why will they do anything to protect Hillary ….. this is the reason
http://365usanews.com/u-s-news/fbi-insider-leaks-all-clinton-foundation-exposed-involves-entire-us-government-video/
Evil government full of corruption and obstruction
This woman is boy ght and paid for. Period.
I guess it will have to be down to Putin to reveal the corruption in Washington.
Obama will grant Hillary Clinton immunity for all of the Wikileaks email that can put her behind bars just like Oliver North got for the Iran-Contra Affair Although Hillary Clinton has repeatedly denied that she sold weapons to the Islamic Stats while serving as Secretary of State, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange claims he has proof to the contrary.
heavy hand of the law..