Now, the top prosecutor on Special Counsel Jack Smith's team believes there is “negligible evidence” despite “multiple” related suspicious activity reports in the “hundreds of thousands”. In 2016, the FBI was discouraged from pursuing an investigation into the Clinton Foundation. According to the report, dollars are being paid in foreign transactions.
fox news digital first reported On Friday, Special Counsel John said Ray Halser, the former head of the Justice Department's Public Integrity Division and now a member of Smith's team prosecuting former President Donald Trump, was involved in the Clinton Foundation's “prosecution'' in 2016. It was revealed that the official was the one who refused.Durham's reportappeared in May 2023.
Durham's report said that in January 2016, three different FBI field offices began investigating “criminal activities that may have involved the Clinton Foundation.” The three offices are the New York Field Office (NYFO), the Little Rock Field Office (LRFO), and the Washington Field Office (WFO).
According to the report, LRFO's case-initiating communications indicate that certain for-profit industries likely involved federal public officials in the flow of benefits, meaning large monetary donations were likely made to nonprofit organizations. It refers to information products and supporting financial reports that are under the direct and indirect control of federal public officials in exchange for favorable government action or influence. ”
The WFO investigation began as a preliminary investigation because case officials wanted to determine whether additional information could be developed to corroborate the allegations in the book, the report said. clinton cash By Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweitzer.
The report goes on to say that the LRFO and NYFO investigations are based on estimates and reports from sources who have identified foreign governments that have made or offered to donate to the foundation in exchange for favors or favors from Mr. Clinton. “
Because of the three different field offices investigating the Clinton Foundation, Durham's report “recognized the need to conduct coordination meetings between the field offices, FBI Headquarters, and the appropriate U.S. Attorney's Office.” He also said that there were “constituents” of the principal judges. Department.
Durham's report also said that “these meetings were likely considered to be of particular importance given that the investigation occurred during an election year in which Ms. Clinton was declared the presidential candidate.” Says.
Mr. Halser said in a Feb. 1, 2016, meeting that he “disparaged the information provided by the New York field office.” [confidential human source]The report also said that during that meeting, Mr. Halser “refused to prosecute” the Clinton Foundation on behalf of the Justice Department's Public Integrity Division.
In an interview with the Durham newspaper, Halser said he made it clear that his decision was “not binding on the various prosecutors' offices in the United States or the field divisions of the FBI.”
Then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and FBI Director James Comey also reportedly pressured the field office to close the case.
In August 2016, Fox News Digital reported that a meeting was held directing the WFO and LRFO investigations to be “closed and integrated into the NYFO investigation.” During that meeting, U.S. prosecutors declined to issue subpoenas, the report said.
Halser also told Durham that he felt Schweitzer's book was “poorly predictive” of at least one investigation.
Fox News contributor Andy McCarthy told Fox News Digital that there were people on Special Counsel Jack Smith's team who were “involved in situations where it was politically inconsistent to be involved in this.” We shouldn't be surprised.”
McCarthy also said that the Biden Justice Department's decision to appoint a special counsel was “entirely political and was done to distance the attorney general and the president from the decision to indict Trump.” “It was clear from the beginning,” he said.
President Joe Biden (left) and Attorney General Merrick Garland enter the East Room of the White House on May 16, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“Mr. Smith conducted the election with the election schedule in mind,” he added.
Durham noted how the timing of the 2016 election influenced the FBI's reasoning for opening only a “preliminary” investigation into the Clinton Foundation, but in Trump's case, his campaign He said the matter was not seen as a hindrance to immediately launching a full-scale investigation into whether there was any wrongdoing. He is colluding with Russia.
Despite the upcoming 2024 election and Trump's candidacy, Smith has vigorously pursued charges against Trump for “election interference” and for keeping classified information after leaving office.
So was Halser. involved The Justice Department's prosecution of former Trump aide Peter Navarro, who was charged with contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena from a Democratic-led House committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021.
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