Posted on 08/22/2016 9:26:38 AM PDT by jazusamo
Full title: New Abedin Emails Reveal Hillary Clinton State Department Gave Special Access to Top Clinton Foundation Donors
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released 725 pages of new State Department documents, including previously unreleased email exchanges in which former Hillary Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin provided influential Clinton Foundation donors special, expedited access to the secretary of state. In many instances, the preferential treatment provided to donors was at the specific request of Clinton Foundation executive Douglas Band.
The new documents included 20 Hillary Clinton email exchanges not previously turned over to the State Department, bringing the known total to date to 191 of new Clinton emails (not part of the 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton turned over to the State Department). These records further appear to contradict statements by Clinton that, “as far as she knew,” all of her government emails were turned over to the State Department.
The Abedin emails reveal that the longtime Clinton aide apparently served as a conduit between Clinton Foundation donors and Hillary Clinton while Clinton served as secretary of state. In more than a dozen email exchanges, Abedin provided expedited, direct access to Clinton for donors who had contributed from $25,000 to $10 million to the Clinton Foundation. In many instances, Clinton Foundation top executive Doug Band, who worked with the Foundation throughout Hillary Clinton’s tenure at State, coordinated closely with Abedin. In Abedin’s June deposition to Judicial Watch, she conceded that part of her job at the State Department was taking care of “ Clinton family matters .”
Included among the Abedin-Band emails is an exchange revealing that when Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain requested a meeting with Secretary of State Clinton, he was forced to go through the Clinton Foundation for an appointment. Abedin advised Band that when she went through “normal channels” at State, Clinton declined to meet. After Band intervened, however, the meeting was set up within forty-eight hours. According to the Clinton Foundation website , in 2005, Salman committed to establishing the Crown Prince’s International Scholarship Program (CPISP) for the Clinton Global Initiative. And by 2010, it had contributed $32 million to CGI. The Kingdom of Bahrain reportedly gave between $50,000 and $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation. And Bahrain Petroleum also gave an additional $25,000 to $50,000.
From: Doug Band
To : Huma Abedin
Sent : Tue Jun 23 1:29:42 2009
Subject :
Cp of Bahrain in tomorrow to Friday
Asking to see her
Good friend of ours
From : Huma Abedin
To : Doug Band
Sent : Tue Jun 23 4:12:46 2009
Subject : Re:
He asked to see hrc thurs and fri thru normal channels. I asked and she said she doesn’t want to commit to anything for thurs or fri until she knows how she will feel. Also she says that she may want to go to ny and doesn’t want to be committed to stuff in ny…
From : Huma Abedin [Huma@clintonemail.com]
Sent : Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:35:15 AM
To : Doug Band
Subject :
Offering Bahrain cp 10 tomorrow for meeting woith [sic] hrc
If u see him, let him know
We have reached out thru official channels
Also included among the Abedin-Band emails is an exchange in which Band urged Abedin to get the Clinton State Department to intervene in order to obtain a visa for members of the Wolverhampton (UK) Football Club, one of whose members was apparently having difficulty because of a “criminal charge.” Band was acting at the behest of millionaire Hollywood sports entertainment executive and President of the Wasserman Foundation Casey Wasserman. Wasserman has donated between $5 million and $10 million to the Clinton Foundation through the Wasserman Foundation.
From : Tim Hoy [VP Wasserman Media Group]
Date : Tue. 5 May 2009 10:45:55 – 0700
To : Casey Wasserman
Subject : [Redacted] Wolverhampton FC/visa matter
Casey: Paul Martin’s [popular English footballer] client [Redacted] needs to get an expedited appointment at the US Embassy in London this week and we have hit some road blocks. I am writing to ask for your help.
The Wolverhampton FC is coming to Las Vegas this Thursday for a “celebration break.” [Redacted] so he cannot get a visa to the US without first being “interviewed” in the visa section of the US Embassy in London …
I contacted Senator Boxer’s office in SF for help … They balked at the criminal charge and said they “couldn’t help.”
I’m now trying to get help from Sherrod Brown’s office but that’s not going well either. So do you have any ideas/contacts that could contact the US Embassy in London and ask that they see [Redacted] tomorrow?
From : Casey Wasserman
To : Doug Band; Trista Schroeder [Wasserman Media Group executive]
Sent : Tue May 05 2:23:50 2009 [PT]
Subject : FW [Redacted] Wolverhampton FC/visa matter
Can you help with the below [Hoy email], or maybe Huma??? I am copying trista as I am on the plane in case I lose connection … thx.
From : Doug Band
Sent : Tue May 05 7:08:21 2009 [ET]
To : Casey Wasserman; Trista Schroeder
Subject : Re: [Redacted] Wolverhampton FC/visa matter
Will email her.
From : Doug Band
To : Huma Abedin
Sent : Tue May 5 7:26:49 2009
Subject : Fw: [Redacted] Wolverhampton FC/visa matter
[As per subject line, Band apparently forwarded Abedin material sent to him by Casey.]
From : Huma Abedin [Huma@clintonemail.com]
Sent : Tuesday, May 05, 2009 7:39:38 PM
To : Doug Band
Subject : Re: [Redacted] Wolverhampton FC/visa matter
I doubt we can do anything but maybe we can help with an interview. I’ll ask.
From : Huma Abedin
To : Doug Band
Sent : Tue May 05 5:50:09 2009
Subject : Re: [Redacted] Wolverhampton FC/visa matter
I got this now, makes me nervous to get involved but I’ll ask.
From : Doug Band
To : Huma Abedin
Sent : Tuesday, May 05, 2009 7:43:30 PM
Subject : Re: [Redacted] Wolverhampton FC/visa matter
Then don’t
The Abedin emails also reveal that Slimfast tycoon S. Daniel Abraham was granted almost immediate access to then-Secretary of State Clinton, with Abedin serving as the facilitator. According to the Clinton Foundation website, Abraham, like the Wasserman Foundation, has given between $5 million and $10 million to the Clinton Foundation. The emails indicate that Abraham was granted almost immediate access to Clinton upon request:
From : Huma Abedin
To : H
Sent : Mon May 04 4:40:34 2009
Subject : Danny
Danny abraham called this morning. He is in dc today and tomorrow and asked for 15 min with you. Do u want me to try and fit him in tomorrow?
From : H
To Huma Abedin
Sent : Mon May 04 5:14:00 2009
Subject : Re: Danny
Will the plane wait if I can’t get there before 7-8?
From : Huma Abedin
Sent : Monday, May 04, 2009 5:15:30 PM
Subject : Re: Danny
Yes of course
Additional Abedin emails in which the top Clinton aide intervenes with the State Department on behalf of Clinton Foundation donors include the following:
The newly obtained Abedin emails also contain a memorandum sent to Cheryl Mills from State Department White House liaison Laura Pena revealing that Rajiv Fernando was proposed for his controversial appointment to the sensitive International Security Advisory Board as early as June 2009. Fernando was not actually appointed until 2011, and his appointment raised a firestorm because, according to an ABC News report, “he had no obvious experience in the field.” Fernando donated $1 million to the Clinton Foundation.
The Abedin emails reveal that even U2’s Bono got into the act when former Bill Clinton aide Ben Schwerin, who helped set up the Clinton Foundation, urged Abedin to help the aging rock star broadcast from the international space station. In a May 27, 2009, email with the subject line “Bono/NASA,” Schwerin wrote, “Bono wants to do linkup with the international space station on every show during the tour this year.… Any ideas? Thks.” Bono has been a donor to the Clinton Global Initiative. And in 2011, he gathered top entertainers for “A Decade of Difference: A Concert Celebrating 10 Years of the William J. Clinton Foundation.” According to USA Today, “Some tickets were sold to the public for $50 to $550, and premium seats went for $1,000 to $5,000 on the Foundation website.”
“These new emails confirm that Hillary Clinton abused her office by selling favors to Clinton Foundation donors,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “There needs to be a serious, independent investigation to determine whether Clinton and others broke the law.”
This is the tenth set of records produced for Judicial Watch by the State Department from the non-state.gov email accounts of Huma Abedin. The documents were produced under a court order in a May 5, 2015, Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit against the State Department ( Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00684)) requiring the agency to produce “all emails of official State Department business received or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from January 1, 2009 through February 1, 2013, using a ‘non-state’.gov email address.”
In June, Judicial Watch uncovered two batches ( here and here ) of new Clinton email records through court-ordered discovery. Twice in May, Judicial Watch uncovered new Clinton emails, including emails that show Clinton knew about the security risk of her BlackBerry (see here and here ).
Recently , Judicial Watch released other State Department emails (one batch of103 pages, the second of 138 pages), with newly discovered Clinton emails also going back as far as January 2009.
In March, Judicial Watch released Clinton State Department emails dating from February 2009 that also call into question her statements about her emails. Those emails contained more evidence of the battle between security officials in the State Department, National Security Agency, Clinton and her staff over attempts to obtain secure BlackBerrys.
On August 9, Judicial Watch produced a 2009 email in which Band directed 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 noted that Chagoury is “key guy there [Lebanon] and to us.” Chagoury has donated between $1 million to $5 million to the Foundation, according to foundationdocuments. He alsopledged $1 billion to the Clinton Global Initiative.
Hillary Clinton has repeatedly stated that she believes that the 55,000 pages of documents she turned over to the State Department in December 2014 included all of her work-related emails. In response to a court order in other Judicial Watch litigation, she declared under penalty of perjury that she had “directed that all my emails on clintonemail.com in my custody that were or are potentially federal records be provided to the Department of State, and on information and belief, this has been done.” This new email find is also at odds with her official campaign statement suggesting all “work or potentially work-related emails” were provided to the State Department.
I love how they’re described as a ‘good friend of ours’
It reminds me of the true story of FBI agent Joe Pistone who infiltrated the New York mafia to its highest levels of access in the movie Donnie Brasco.
Lefty: [talking to Donnie] When I introduce you, I’m gonna say, “This is a friend of mine.” That means you’re a connected guy. Now if I said instead, this is a friend of ours that would mean you a made guy. A Capiche?
C'mon Sir Newton dont let the Clintoons corrupt the laws of physics now. The boomerang is due for a massive swingback. What a fall it should be..
She’s not in office right now, and Trump has been in NY rea estate for a long time.
He know how to play dirty and rough too.
And there’s No Way he will concede if he finds out about one fraudalent vote.
Believe me, there’s plenty of republicans at the state level who tweak votes too.
We tend to think here that the only cheating is on the dem side.
Thank goodness that’s not true.
Come on guys. This is politics. There are a handful of honorable men. The rest will cheat for their side.
Having so much power at the state level might actually give the advantage to republicans.
I am surprised that Matthew Drudge of the Drudge Report has not yet mentioned the Hillary Clinton diapers story, especially considering that WikiLeaks’ top lawyer in London, was murdered - pushed in front of a train - within 3 days of Wikileaks’ Hillary diaper story breaking!
Tell me, how does Clinton commit fraud on an epic national scale, defrauding an entire presidential election without it being detected? If you could be specific. Thanks.
Illary, LOL. Good one.
Sonofab*tch, you're another one who's been here years, but seldom ever makes a comment.
This patter of people like this who post "Trump can't win" BS are glaring.
National scale is not needed. Only a few key precincts, to put her over the top in a few key states.
I don’t have specifics. We can all show examples of past voter fraud instances, but that’s not a guarantee she’d use those methods. That’s not the point.
8 years ago, would anyone have guessed with certainty the specifics of this current greed and criminality?
The point: there is no one to enforce the laws she’s broken. Why should she not attempt further law-breaking?
What is she doing with all of this money? She and Bill don’t have long to live. Poor health. Doubt Bill last two years.
So is this for Chelsea?
Or is this money laundering to someone else?
I don’t get it. We are talking hundreds of millions of dollars.
Thanks...Not a surprise, Hill and Barky are two peas in a pod when it comes to shedding blame, I don’t which one I hold the most disdain for.
IF you're right (and you may be if Hillary's horrendous health, and series of indicting wikileaks that exposed her and Huma of selling Top Secret/classified info don't take her down.)
If the case, America's bi-partisan elites have ostensibly signed our death warrant as sovereign, free nation.
It would explain the rife domestic military exercises of the past year, the massive buy of billions of rounds of ammo, the importation of hundreds of thousands of Moslem refugees, #BLM aggression, and Establishment Republican Leadership quietly rooting FOR Hillary and loudly AGAINST Trump.
“Trump will not win.”
Not exactly. Sorry to not be clear. He wins a fair election, maybe in a landslide.
I was making a point - I’m concerned about saying “don’t worry about her law-breaking; the voters will throw her out.” If law-breaking continues, fraudulent voters will win this election for her, and that’s the end of executive branch oversight.
My guess is the more the 'so called elites' rip off the American people for their own benefit, the more paranoid they get...
Hillary! Borgia.....
I see, so according to you, “Trump will not win”, and to bring this to bear, you already know exactly how she’ll commit this historic fraud? Right? You said She’ll tamper with key precincts in just a few key states. And you know all this far in advance? Right? Considering you know all this in advance, you continue to believe she’ll get away with this epic historic fraud which will be missed by the entire country?
Really?
These wikileaks are also apt to nail and expose ANY of these other treasonous SOBs by name.
No wonder they are trying so desperately to take away the 2A.
The United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, forced the Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain to go through the Clinton Foundation to schedule an official visit with her as Secretary of State?
That is so illegal I can't even list the number of laws and ethical code violations.
This is enough to put her in jail
I have been thinking this for some time. How did they ever get rid of Tammany Hall? Sheesh... like gigantic blood sucking leeches.
I’d bet Hill would throw Bill under if it would benefit her.
If Bill should happen to die in late Oct., she’d get many sympathy votes. Bill needs a food taster.
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