“Important to take care of [redacted],” Band wrote when he passed it along.
“We all have had him on our radar. (US govt) Personnel has been sending him options,” Abedin replied.
NARRATIVE It wasn’t the first time Team Clinton used its clout to land a position for a generous donor to the Clinton Foundation. In e-mails obtained in June 2016 by Citizens United, a watchdog group, it was revealed that a Chicago securities trader who was a Clinton campaign bundler----and gave at least $1 million to the foundation----landed on the International Security Advisory Board despite having no experience in the field.
The donor, Rajiv K. Fernando, got the gig in 2011 after longtime Clinton aide, Cheryl Mills, intervened, according to an e-mail.
The board provides advice to the State Department on all arms control, and its members are national-security experts with scientific, military, diplomatic and political backgrounds, according to its Web site.
After ABC News reported Fernando’s role he resigned within 24 hours.
The 44 previously unreleased e-mails in the new documents will raise more questions about conflicts of interest between the Clinton Foundation and the secretary of state and her aides and whether donors could “pay to play” and profit from their donations.
The revelations drew a quick rebuke from the Trump campaign, which said: “This is yet more evidence that Hillary Clinton lacks the judgment, character, stability and temperament to be within 1,000 miles of public power. She views public office as nothing more than a means to personal enrichment.”
“No wonder Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin hid e-mails from the American people, the courts and Congress,” said Judicial Watch boss Tom Fitton. “They show the Clinton Foundation, Clinton donors and operatives worked with Hillary Clinton in potential violation of the law.”
The document said he planned to condemn any US efforts to criticize Chinese monetary policy or enact trade barriers — another example of her close ties to Wall Street.
In an embarrassing disclosure, Abedin — Clinton’s closest aide — admitted she left her boss’ daily schedule in an unlocked hotel room in Trinidad and Tobago, where the secretary of state was attending a conference.
“Hi Huma,” aide Melissa Lan wrote Abedin. “Would it be possible to get one of the Secretary’s day book binders back for tomorrow’s product?”
Abedin replied, “Yes its on the bed in my room. U can take it. My door is open. I’m in lobby. Thx.”
Before taking office, Clinton wrote in a letter to State Department Designated Agency Ethics Official James Thessin that if confirmed she would not participate in any matters that involve people who had connections to the family’s charities.
Clinton spokesman Josh Schwerin said “neither of these emails involve the secretary or relate to the foundation’s work.”
“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,” he added.
SOURCE http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/emails-reveal-hillarys-shocking-pay-for-play-scheme/
