A new set of 44 emails released by a conservative watchdog have thrown light on how top officials from the Clinton Foundation sought access to the state department when Hillary Clinton served as the s
A new set of 44 emails released by a conservative watchdog have thrown light on how top officials from the Clinton Foundation sought access to the state department when Hillary Clinton served as the secretary of state in the first term of the Obama administration.
According to the email exchanges, officials of the Clinton Foundation not only sought to get job opportunities in the state department, but also help in getting meetings with foreign governments, alleged Judicial Watch which obtained the emails through the Freedom of Information Act.
New documents said that in April 2009 Clinton Foundation official Doug Band pushed for a job for an associate, the Judicial Watch said.
In the email, Band tells Hillary Clinton’s former aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin that it is “important to take care of (redacted).”
Included in the new document production is a 2009 email in which Band, directs Abedin and Mills to put Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire and Clinton Foundation donor Gilbert Chagoury in touch with the state department’s “substance person” on Lebanon. Band notes that Chagoury is “key guy there (Lebanon) and to us,” and insists that Abedin call ambassador Jeffrey Feltman to connect him to Chagoury.
Chagoury is a close friend of former US President Bill Clinton and a top donor to the Clinton Foundation, Judicial Watch said.
“Clinton’s top aides’ favors for and interactions with the Clinton Foundation seem in violation of the ethics agreements that Hillary Clinton agreed to in order to be appointed and confirmed as secretary of state,” it said.
