So much for Hillary Clinton’s claim to have handed in all of her work emails: Turns out the FBI found another 14,900 — meaning she “missed” at least a third of what the law required her to fork over.
It’ll be weeks before the public learns anything about what’s in that dump — but Monday brought plenty of dirt from yet another stash of emails, ones that top Hillary aide Huma Abedin sent or received on her clintonemail and other non-State accounts.
Brought to light by the good folks at Judicial Watch, these show new cases of special attention for big Clinton Foundation donors.
In 2009, for example, the crown prince of Bahrain wanted a sitdown with the secretary of state — but couldn’t get it through “normal channels,” as Abedin wrote.
So he asked the foundation’s then-chief, Doug Band, for help. Presto! A quick reminder to Huma that the prince was a “good friend of ours” (he’d donated millions) and the prince got his meeting within 48 hours.
SlimFast king Danny Abraham, who also gave millions, similarly got a meeting with the secretary via the Band-Abedin channel. Indeed, judging by Clinton’s own emails in the thread, she even delayed her plane’s takeoff to make the sitdown possible.
Other donors got action via direct appeal to Abedin: For example, 75-grand-giver Maureen White wrote, “I am going to be in DC on Thursday. Would she have any time to spare?” Huma’s reply: “Yes I’ll make it work.”
Doug Band went on to found the “consulting” firm Teneo Inc. — the (explicitly) for-profit arm of Clinton Inc. And Abedin, in an unprecedented setup OK’d by Secretary Clinton, then got to draw simultaneous paychecks from State, Teneo and the foundation.
All par for the course for a crew that can’t tell the difference between the people’s business and their own.
Or between right and wrong.