DC Watchdog to Sue for Emails Between Huma, Crooked Kin

Washington watchdog group Judicial Watch plans to sue the U.S. State Department for copies of emails and other communications between former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and close members of her family who gave to the Clinton Foundation and who were recently pinched by the feds on major fraud and corruption charges.

The move comes as the Justice Department launches a new inquiry into whether the Clinton Foundation engaged in influence-peddling or other illegal activities while Clinton served as secretary of state from 2009-2013.

As deputy chief of staff for Clinton, Abedin agreed to arrange State Department meetings with business partners of her first cousin, Omar Amanat, a major donor to the Clinton Foundation who last month was convicted by a Manhattan jury of federal fraud charges. The partners scored at least $1.3 million in federal grant money, as WND first reported earlier this year.

Recently released State Department emails reveal the convicted swindler, who awaits sentencing April 25, tried to cash in on his family ties to the former State official — and his lobbying appears to have paid off primarily for his anti-“Islamophobia” group based in Egypt . . .

Court records show that Abedin’s “closest” cousin, who goes by the family nickname “Omi,” cheated investors in Kit Digital Inc. of millions of dollars between 2009 and 2012, forcing the tech start-up to go bankrupt in 2013. (Read more from “DC Watchdog to Sue for Emails Between Huma, Crooked Kin” HERE)

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