FBI, DOJ share evidence of pay-to-play corruption involving Clinton Foundation with Congress
Bill and Hillary Clinton's foundation received money from donors seeking to curry favor with the political power couple, but the evidence was suppressed by criminal investigators during the Obama administration, according to a new report.
FBI director Kash Patel and attorney general Pam Bondi shared documents detailing the obstruction with the Senate Judiciary Committee, Just the News reported, and the files will be made public in the coming days.
Clinton evidence handed over
Officials told Just The News that the new documents show how federal law enforcement sought to shield the foundation as donations poured in from foreign and domestic lobbyists, including a U.S. defense contractor, who were seeking to gain influence with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Clinton's nonprofit has long fallen under suspicion for pay-to-play politics, with the charity's foreign ties coming under scrutiny after the publication of Peter Schweizer's book Clinton Cash in 2015.
The foundation was also investigated by the feds as Clinton campaigned for the White House in 2016, but the probes went nowhere.
The new documents will make clear that there was an effort “to obstruct legitimate inquiries into the Foundation by blocking real investigation by line-level FBI agents and DOJ field prosecutors and keeping them from following the money,” one official directly familiar with the documents told Just The News.
FBI, DOJ obstruction
Officials told Just the News that some of the evidence was flagged by whistleblowers as having been blocked from a short-lived U.S. attorney's investigation in Little Rock, Arkansas in 2015.
Former special counsel John Durham, in his report detailing the FBI's biased handling of probes into President Trump and Clinton, previously said the FBI's Little Rock investigation was based on intelligence of a "flow of benefits scheme" involving a "federal public official" in which money was exchanged for "favorable government action and/or influence."
The Little Rock probe was scuttled by the Justice Department, with Obama Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates ordering agents to "shut it down," according to a 2017 FBI memo that was made public this year.
Two other probes at FBI field offices in New York and Washington, D.C., were also blocked by the Obama Justice Department and former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, who gave instructions not to investigate the foundation "without his approval," Just the News previously reported
Exposing corruption
The new documents will be shared with the public as soon as this week, once steps are taken to protect the identities of whistleblowers, Just The News reported.
The files will show "how lower-level FBI agents and prosecutors kept information from reaching decision makers in the various probes of the Clinton Foundation," officials told the outlet.
The release of new information on Clinton's foundation is part of a broader effort by AG Bondi and Director Patel to expose corruption under Trump's predecessors. Many in Trump's base are anything but shocked by these findings and would like to see more aggressive action taken to hold figures like Clinton accountable.
The most high-profile individual to face charges in the push for accountability is former FBI director James Comey, who notoriously exonerated Clinton for her illegal use of an e-mail server in 2016.






