Hillary Clinton and her close aides did favors for Clinton Foundation associates and donors during her time as secretary of state, newly released emails show.
In April 2009, former Bill Clinton aide Doug Band, who helped establish the Clinton Found, sent an email to Hillary aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills with the subject line “A favor…”
Band, who currently heads the global consulting firm Teneo Holdings, wrote that it was “important to take care of” an unnamed male associate who wanted a job.
“We have all had him on our radar,” Abedin wrote back. “Personnel has been sending him options.”
Abedin, through a special arrangement, was allowed to do paid part-time work for both the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings while employed by the State Department. Republicans in Congress have sought more information on the Abedin’s controversial employment status.
Another email, also from April 2009, shows that Abedin helped Band arrange an introduction between a shady Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire previously convicted of money laundering and a U.S. government official in Lebanon.
Band told Abedin it would be better if she called the U.S. official. “Now preferable,” he wrote. “This is very important.”
The shady billionaire, Gilbert Chagoury, has donated between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation.
The emails were obtain by the watchdog group Judicial Watch through a lawsuit filed under the Freedom of Information Act.
