EXCLUSIVE: Joint FBI-US Attorney Probe Of Clinton Foundation Is Underway
Multiple FBI investigations are underway involving potential corruption charges against the Clinton Foundation, according to a former senior law enforcement official.
The investigation centers on New York City where the Clinton Foundation has its main offices, according to the former official who has direct knowledge of the activities.
Prosecutorial support will come from various U.S. Attorneys Offices — a major departure from other centralized FBI investigations.
The New York-based probe is being led by Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Bharara’s prosecutorial aggressiveness has resulted in a large number of convictions of banks, hedge funds and Wall Street insiders.
The official said involvement of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York “would be seen by agents as a positive development as prosecutors there are generally thought to be more aggressive than the career lawyers within the DOJ.”
Bharara’s official biography notes that he, “has applied renewed focus on large-scale, sophisticated financial frauds by creating two new units – the Complex Frauds Unit and the complementary Civil Frauds Unit.
“The Civil Frauds Unit has collected close to $500 million in settlements since its inception, including multi-million dollar settlements with Deutsche Bank and CitiMortgage for faulty lending practices and other fraudulent conduct.”
Nicholas Biase, a spokesman for Bharara, said he would “decline comment.” Similarly, FBI spokeswoman Samantha Shero said, “we do not have a comment on investigative activity.”
Bharara is best known for securing convictions of prominent political figures, including former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Silver had a seemingly intractable grip on power in the state for decades. He was convicted of accepting $4 million in exchange for helping a cancer researcher and two real estate developers.
He also secured the conviction of New York Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was sentenced to five years in prison for corruption.
cont.
Blake Gray
The former official said the investigation is being coordinated between bureau field offices and FBI managers at headquarters in Washington, D.C. The unusual process would ensure senior FBI supervisors, including Director James Comey, would be kept abreast of case progress and of significant developments.
The reliance on U.S. attorneys would be a significant departure from the centralized manner in which the FBI managed the investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server and email addresses.
That investigation was conducted with agents at FBI headquarters, who coordinated with the Department of Justice’s National Security Division (NSD).
The Clinton email probe was considered a “small cell” investigation, with FBI agents and NSD attorneys frequently conferring. Comey short-circuited the effort in early July by announcing that “no reasonable prosecutor” would try Clinton for the “careless” handling of classified material.
“Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information,” he announced in a July 5 press conference.
Comey, however, wouldn’t answer questions about any ongoing FBI investigation of the Clinton Foundation.
Before a July 7 congressional hearing about his decision not to recommend prosecution of Clinton, Comey told House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz, “I’m not going to comment on the existence or nonexistence of other investigations.”
“Was the Clinton Foundation tied into this investigation?” Chaffetz persisted.
“I’m not going to answer that,” Comey replied.
cont.
Sebastian Phillips
In its 15 years of operations, the Clinton Foundation, formally known as the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, has collected up to $2 billion from donors, according to The Washington Post. The donors include a wide range of the world’s wealthiest people: Eastern European tycoons, Arab Sheiks, African mining magnates, hedge fund billionaires and Wall Street firms.
The Post reported that the couple brought in $3 billion when campaign contributions are included in the total. “The Clintons’ fundraising operation — $3 billion amassed by one couple, working in tandem for more than four decades — has no equal,” the Post reported in a wide-ranging investigation into the sources of the couple’s funds.
In a related development Thursday, CNN reported that earlier this year, Justice Department officials in three different field offices “were in agreement a public corruption investigation should be launched” of Clinton Foundation activities.
The probe was sparked by a bank notifying the FBI of “suspicious activity” around a foreign donor to the Clinton Foundation, according to Pamela Brown, CNN’s Justice Department reporter.
Had it been launched, that investigation would have looked at conflicts of interest between requests by foreign donors and official acts by Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. CNN did not identify the bank or the foreign donor.
Brown reported the FBI and Justice Department officials met but there was “disagreement” whether to launch such an investigation. In the end, the investigation was killed.
A separate investigation was approved, however, focusing on Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who was a member of the Clinton Foundation’s board of directors for most if its existence.
FIN
Adam Brooks
>people will ignore this and reply to obvious bait topics
Justin Jones
maybe this time nothing will happen to the clintons again
Eli Miller
$1 dollar says they find nothing
dog and pony show
Liam Wright
check my digits
4 justice
Wyatt Anderson
bump this all day
Samuel Perez
...
Dylan Sullivan
This.
Gavin Sanchez
Because it's been reposted a fuck ton since yesterday.
Oliver Ross
You mean the same US attorney who told Bill how his wife won't be touched?
Jordan Green
>implying Hillary wont just kill the entire FBI with an accidental carpet bomb. You lads are delusional if you think anything is gonna happen.
Jackson Lee
Preemptive F for Mr. Bharara
Austin Thompson
>Comey short-circuited the effort in early July by announcing that “no reasonable prosecutor” would try Clinton for the “careless” handling of classified material.
Gabriel Thompson
Hrc is too good of a criminal to not have dozens of people put in place to take the fall if anything really illegal is found Best case scenario is comey the cuck does another press conference saying she's either retarded or guilty but we can't persecute because lol oligarch And that wouldn't even happen until after the election
Nathaniel Long
>people will ignore this and reply to obvious bait topics >Because it's been reposted a fuck ton since yesterday.
Implying people are here all day every day and read every single post.
Also, most threads consists of just shitting out a link to who-knows-what with no explanation of what's going on.
Carter Richardson
>Implying it won't piss off other agencies (even CIA) If she that, what would stop here doing it again.
Samuel Miller
...
Jason Allen
bimp for importance
Jace Parker
Yeah who would waste all their time here...
Fuck.
Charles Smith
...
Nicholas Flores
bwump
Michael Perez
>FBI "probe" >Find plenty just like they did with the email server >still nothing happens
Guize, she didn't know what she was doing was wrong. Nothing to see here. - FBI official statement.
What I find astounding is that Dems and Leftists, who were marching in the streets to protest Bush’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the strangle hold the globalist bankers have on America, are perfectly fine with Hillary’s wars in Libya, Syria, Yemen, etc. and don’t blink an eye at a candidate who is blatantly in the globalist banker’s pocket.
Instead, they rant on and on about Trump’s “racism”, as if that’s the real problem facing America…
Gabriel Flores
>dailycaller
How fucking desperate are you drumpfkins?
Jaxson Hernandez
ha. CNN is even flipping on Hillary. The second article on the investigation: First on CNN: Inside the debate over probing the Clinton Foundation
By Drew Griffin, Pamela Brown and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN
Richard Pollock. He's solid and reputable, and broke many a Clinton story. An Emmy winner even. Find me one time he has published an untruth, you shill cunt.
Experience
Senior Investigative Reporter Daily Caller News Foundation March 2015 – Present (1 year 6 months)Washington D.C. Metro Area Senior Investigative Reporter Daily Caller News Foundation March 2015 – Present (1 year 6 months) Investigative Reporter Washington Examiner March 2012 – November 2014 (2 years 9 months)Washington D.C. Metro Area Bureau Chief PJTV/Washington Pajamas Media April 2009 – January 2012 (2 years 10 months) President Next Generation Advertising, LLC September 2004 – October 2009 (5 years 2 months) Executive Vice President Shandwick Public Affairs 1998 – 2001 (3 years) Fox News Senior Producer Fox News 1997 – 1998 (1 year) Washington Producer ABC "Good Morning America" September 1988 – 1997 (9 years) Washington Producer Good Morning America 1988 – 1997 (9 years) ABC News Producer, Good Morning America ABC News 1988 – 1997 (9 years)
Ryder Reyes
bump again, cuz she's done, man
Kayden Brown
I've got my fingers crossed that Wikileaks has an "October Surprise" hidden up their sleeve.
Colton Perez
Bump for MAGA
Samuel Moore
Sounds great. Can't wait to see how many people are "killed in a robbery of nothing", have "exercise accidents (lethal)", experience death from natural causes due to gas line explosions, or just plain ol' turn up dead in their bathroom.
Eventually it's too many people to kill and buy off, right guys? Eventually she will go down... right?
Heard an interview today on Democracy Now radio show that lambasted the Clinton Foundation for being practically transparent in their corruption. Granted, this show probably targets Bernie or Bust / Green Party people, but nevertheless it seems like Hillary's corruption can't be masked by CNN and DNC hitmen forever.
Brody Bailey
Why you should take the new corruption investigation into the Clinton Foundation seriously
If you’re not familiar with Preetinder Singh “Preet” Bharara – the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, centered on New York City and surrounding counties – then you haven’t been following our ongoing coverage of his prosecution of numerous New York elected officials over the past few years. The man is absolutely fearless when it comes to persons of political power and maintains a reputation for the apolitical pursuit of justice generally only applied to the movie version of Eliot Ness. He’s knee deep into multiple investigations of corruption by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio while simultaneously digging through the offices of Governor Andrew Cuomo himself, as well as the entire executive branch of state government.
He produces results, too. He’s already taken down the Republican state senate Majority Leader and the Democratic Speaker of the Assembly, a guy who was considered the most powerful man in state government for decades. And those weren’t slaps on the wrist or simply embarrassing revelations. Both of them got serious jail time. Sources I’ve spoken to in New York law enforcement have described Bharara as The Terminator. When he gets his teeth into something he simply does not stop – ever – and he’s impervious to threats from those in positions of power.
There's a whole few hours long thread on this already. The major media outlets haven't even reported on this, just Fox News and a few others, makes you wonder how something so big is ignored by them.
Dominic Foster
>What I find astounding is that Dems and Leftists, who were marching in the streets to protest Bush’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the strangle hold the globalist bankers have on America, are perfectly fine with Hillary’s wars in Libya, Syria, Yemen, etc. and don’t blink an eye at a candidate who is blatantly in the globalist banker’s pocket. It's easy to find it astounding, though it helps that the appearance is totally in your head and not in reality. Why do you think CNN has to drop 18-34 year olds in their polling, or they needed to hire seat-fillers at the democratic convention, or they had to put up a fucking wall to guard the convention from protesters?
The free speech zone is nowhere near MSNBC and CNN. Those citizens mad about Bush's wars are not fine with Hillary bro.
Nolan Robinson
Compilation of CNN & MSNBC Cutting Guests Mics to Protect Hillary Clinton
>has people murdered, ruins entire areas of the middle east, installs puppets worldwide, undermines democracy, buys and sells children, and supports the lowest criminals of the low across the globe >goes down for fraud
I'd laugh. HARD.
Blake Bell
hes not wrong. what sane prosecutor would want to risk their career AND their life on bringing a case against her for the emails, which probably had flimsy evidence and would have been easy for her to buy her way around and have it dismissed on some technicality?
The Clinton foundation meanwhile, is a much juicier target because it is not just 1 person it is an organization
Elijah Ortiz
CNN & MSNBC have no mention of the FBI-US Attorney investigation on the Clinton Foundation, the news broke 15hrs or so ago, god bless their pretty little biased heads.
Sebastian Miller
BumpBumpBump
Charles Perez
>The New York-based probe is being led by Preet Bharara > Preet GODSPEED YOU DESIGNATED SHITTING HILLARITY
Julian Gray
Preet is one of us! HAIL KEK Lord of Chaos, protect our Preet Kek! These are dangerous and crazy people poor Preet is dealing with, Kek keep him safe!
This is great news and all just remember guys, Obama appointed the dude who is leading the probe. Google his name, Preet Bharara, and you'll see that as clear as day.
Levi Ross
You guys remember that time that the presidential candidate running for office was under investigation by the FBI yet is still running while none of the media says anything nagative about it? Haha, what a country.
Jack Hill
the wall street shitter
Colton Hernandez
see Hillary all but admitted she's going to snub him if she wins.
Colton Garcia
She's been doing wrong. Indictment is just the lesser of the stuff she should be afraid of
Jaxon Anderson
they don't even want to investigate the claim... but cnn is actually showing some balls, tiny they are though
Juan Jackson
You idiots don't even realize Clinton is playing 19D chess. The FBI pretends to investigate her, then make a statement saying that absolutely no wrong-doing has been found. This is a way to destroy any arguments that Clinton's opposition (Drumpf) may have.
She's getting the FBI to clear her, not condemn her.
Justin Ross
fuck off, shill.
Nathaniel Gonzalez
I agree, the ones at the top of this investigation will still be Comey/Lynch, so what difference will it make?
Camden Gomez
> Bunch of people whose boss is BH Obama is "investigating" Obama ally.
Riiiiight.
Nolan Campbell
...
Tyler Garcia
they aren't involving them in the same way. a work-around if you will. H is fucked, done, over
Gabriel Nguyen
>U.S. Attorney
AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA that BLM sheboon isn't gonna do shit.
i've never seen a more disgusting subhuman piece of shit than her. if she's involved its to make sure nothing leaks out into the public that could harm her betters.
Jeremiah Lee
This name... This seems familiar...
Evan Howard
>cnn is actually showing some balls, tiny they are though Granted, I'm impressed desu.
Bump for based Poo-man, Bringer of Justice and Imprisoner of Jews
Brayden Harris
The emails were a small pebble compared to the foundation
Nathaniel Gray
Bill Clinton will go meet the FBI director once again and it will be magically correct.
Eli Nguyen
>pajeet gets the case >pajeet heralded as 'good guy' and 'tough on corruption' >not unlike FBIs james comey >pajeet decides there's not enough evidence or pajeet fudges with the grand jury testimonies >either way the result is the same >clinton not indicted >clinton elected via voter fraud >clinton nominates pajeet to attorney general >pajeet confirmed by dumbass congress >pajeet and hillary clinton were in cahoots the whole time >america gets butfucked one more time
Caleb Reyes
*ALERT*: @rpollockDC just told @KMCRadio he is to report US Attorney Preet Bahara in NYC
Camden Russell
If they can't bring up charges against the State of New York instead of the USA Obama can't pardon her.
Luke Mitchell
If they can*
Thomas Davis
I know how you feel kek.
Jack Watson
While I agree you can't tell me you don't know liberals personally who are giant hypocrites. I know plenty who said bush was a war monger but turn around and defend hillary for all the same shit they criticized bush for.
The average person is hypocritical by nature though so I don't hold it against them. Just annoys me they can be so blind but think they are so "woke".
Jason Edwards
This will probably be the case, but you never know with Pajeets. Some of them are fairly conservative/right-wing
Evan Miller
Explain
Nathan Brooks
Cuomos a democrat though
Asher Torres
So the woman who wants a keep her job under Hillary and one of the agency's that she has had every scrap of dirt on since the 90's are investing Hillary let me just get my hopes up again. I sure hope the IRS that Obama stacked with loyal attack flunkies don't find something condemning in their review. It would pain me to find out that the BATFE, the EPA and, TSA are the only incorruptible agency's left at the federal level.
Ethan Gomez
is nothing. nevermind
Benjamin Gray
Let's hope the investigation, along with all those participating, don't suddenly and mysteriously "disappear"
Ryder Price
and Preet is STILL investigating him right now, and H's foundation head/gov of VA
James Gomez
If this pooinloo is truly the badass they say he is, he better be smart enough to know they're going to try to kill him.
