Thanks for the summary.
I think the bad actors are HSBC and Lynch. Comey is being sucked into a cesspool of corruption.
HSBC was laundering money. Lynch let them go with a fine (IIRC it amounted to five week’s profit). HSBC is a bad actor, as is Lynch.
HSBC account holders donated to Clinton’s Foundation. I think HSBC’s involvement here is incidental. What did those account holders get in return? That’s the question. Is or was the Clinton Foundation an account holder at HSBC?
What does Lynch gain? What, if any, benefit did she receive for her handling of HSBC’s money laundering? Was pressure exerted on her by HSBC, or a cartel?
Lynch declines to prosecute Clinton’s obvious violations of law regarding her e-mail system. Lynch again is a bad actor.
Was pressure exerted on her by Clinton? What does she gain?
Comey was associated with HSBC for five or six months, which doesn’t amount to anything.
Comey explained in detail the crimes committed by Clinton and then descended into nonsense to explain his recommendation to not prosecute Clinton. Was pressure exerted on him by Clinton? What does Comey gain?
If you’re looking for a single nexus of corruption and are willing to dive deep, an interesting line of inquiry involves the Clinton/Mena connection. A factor common to Clinton, Lynch, and Comey, is drug cartels.
The cartels were laundering billions of dollars through HSBC. Did they influence Lynch?
The largest launderer was the Sinaloa cartel. Around 2002-2006 they were moving against the Juarez cartel. During that time an ICE informant, with the knowledge of Attorney General Ashcroft and Deputy Attorney General Comey, participated in a dozen murders in Juarez. DOJ was more concerned with public exposure of the killings than the killings themselves. Why? Was it a desire to cover-up an operation gone bad, or was it tacit approval of killing Juarez cartel members? Perhaps at the behest of the Sinaloa cartel? Sounds far-fetched, but not impossible. Did the cartel influence, either through threats or money, Ashcroft? Comey? Why did they turn a blind eye?
It has long been alleged that the Clintons received large sums of money from a drug running operation out of Mena, Arkansas. This involved Columbian cartels, not Mexican. This gets into CIA black ops, who knows what really happened.
Clinton, Lynch, and Comey, are all corrupt. The common factor may be drug cartels. You heard it here first.
Good list of questions to pursue. The possibility of blackmail over drug cartel corruption occurred to me also. I also looked for links between HSBC and BCCI, which used much of the same M.O., but haven’t found anything significant so far.