A newly released trove of emails from Hillary Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin shows she repeatedly did favors for high-dollar contributors to the Clinton Foundation — including a foreign national with a criminal record that made her nervous.
The request involving the foreign national came from Clinton Foundation donor Casey Wasserman — a sports and entertainment executive who contributed between $5 million and $10 million — to Bill Clinton’s top aide, Doug Band. asking for “help” on May 5, 2009.
Wasserman forwarded an email requesting that a British soccer player “get an expedited appointment at the US Embassy in London this week” because he had “hit some road blocks” due to a “criminal charge.”
The email to Wasserman from his associate read: “The Wolverhampton FC is coming to Las Vegas this Thursday for a ‘celebration break.’ [Redacted] so he cannot get a visa to the US without first being ‘interviewed’ in the visa section of the US Embassy in London.”
Wasserman was informed that Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) declined to help because of the pending criminal matter. So did Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio).
So Wasserman turned to Band, who wrote to Abedin.
“I doubt we can do anything but maybe we can help with an interview. I’ll ask,” Abedin told Band, 13 minutes after she received the request.
In a separate email, Abedin added: “I got this now, makes me nervous to get involved but I’ll ask.”
Band’s reply was curt: “Then don’t.”
It’s unclear what Abedin did after that email exchange.
The Abedin emails — released Monday by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch — reveal that the longtime Clinton aide apparently served as a conduit between Clinton Foundation donors and Hillary Clinton while Clinton served as secretary of state…
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