A top Clinton ally’s political organization reportedly gave nearly a half-million dollars to the campaign of the wife of an FBI official who would go on to help oversee the probe into Hillary Clinton’s email practices – a tangled web likely to fuel Republican complaints about the investigation.
The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday night on the connection. According to the Journal, finance records show Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s PAC gave $467,500 to Dr. Jill McCabe’s 2015 state Senate campaign. The Virginia Democratic Party spent an additional $207,788 on the campaign, the Journal reported.
McCabe, who ended up losing to Republican incumbent Dick Black, is married to Andrew McCabe – the FBI’s deputy director.
At the time of the campaign and of McAuliffe’s support, McCabe was associate deputy director. He later was promoted to deputy after the campaign ended, assuming an oversight role in the Clinton email investigation.
According to the Journal, McCabe sought ethics guidance from the FBI and followed it, but his supervision of the email case was not seen as a potential conflict since Jill McCabe’s campaign was over and McAuliffe wasn’t directly involved in the email case.
McAuliffe and other state figures reportedly recruited Dr. McCabe to run in the first place, but a spokesman pushed back on any suggestion of impropriety.
he FBI also said Andrew McCabe “played no role, attended no events, and did not participate in fundraising or support of any kind.”
McCabe continues to be involved in the email investigation aftermath. He was called last week to brief House oversight committee members on allegations – contained in newly released FBI files – that a State Department official offered a “quid pro quo” with the bureau in a bid to un-classify a particular server email.
The revelations in the Wall Street Journal report could dovetail with Donald Trump’s persistent claims that the Justice Department and FBI investigation into Clinton’s email use was compromised. Trump repeatedly has complained about Attorney General Loretta Lynch meeting with Bill Clinton on a Phoenix tarmac days before the FBI announced no charges in its Clinton investigation.
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The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday night on the connection. According to the Journal, finance records show Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s PAC gave $467,500 to Dr. Jill McCabe’s 2015 state Senate campaign. The Virginia Democratic Party spent an additional $207,788 on the campaign, the Journal reported.
McCabe, who ended up losing to Republican incumbent Dick Black, is married to Andrew McCabe – the FBI’s deputy director.
At the time of the campaign and of McAuliffe’s support, McCabe was associate deputy director. He later was promoted to deputy after the campaign ended, assuming an oversight role in the Clinton email investigation.
According to the Journal, McCabe sought ethics guidance from the FBI and followed it, but his supervision of the email case was not seen as a potential conflict since Jill McCabe’s campaign was over and McAuliffe wasn’t directly involved in the email case.
McAuliffe and other state figures reportedly recruited Dr. McCabe to run in the first place, but a spokesman pushed back on any suggestion of impropriety.
he FBI also said Andrew McCabe “played no role, attended no events, and did not participate in fundraising or support of any kind.”
McCabe continues to be involved in the email investigation aftermath. He was called last week to brief House oversight committee members on allegations – contained in newly released FBI files – that a State Department official offered a “quid pro quo” with the bureau in a bid to un-classify a particular server email.
The revelations in the Wall Street Journal report could dovetail with Donald Trump’s persistent claims that the Justice Department and FBI investigation into Clinton’s email use was compromised. Trump repeatedly has complained about Attorney General Loretta Lynch meeting with Bill Clinton on a Phoenix tarmac days before the FBI announced no charges in its Clinton investigation.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/24/clinton-ally-aided-campaign-fbi-officials-wife.html
