The legal troubles for the Clinton campaign continue to build even after their campaign failed last November.
Nearly every member of Clinton’s inner-circle has been accused of serious illegal activity at some point within the last year. Hillary Clinton deleted thousands of government emails and kept top secret information on a private server. Top aide Huma Abedin was accused of letting her husband, Anthony Weiner, have access to information for which he did not have clearance. And Weiner is being investigated for a sexual relationship he had with a 15-year-old girl during Clinton’s campaign. Recent reports indicate that Clinton was aware of the affair but said nothing to authorities.
And it doesn’t stop there.
This week, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman has been accused of violating federal law — and the reason is incredibly ironic.
At least one major official involved in last year’s presidential campaigns had legitimate ties to Putin and Russia — but he wasn’t working for Trump. Instead, it’s Clinton campaign chair John Podesta who may have violated federal law for his international connections.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, may have violated federal law when he failed to fully disclose details surrounding his membership on the executive board of Joule Unlimited and the “75,000 common shares” he received. The energy company accepted millions from a Vladimir Putin-connected Russian government fund.
Podesta joined the executive board of Joule Unlimited Technologies — a firm partly financed by Putin’s Russia — in June 2011 and received 100,000 shares of stock options, according to an email uncovered by WikiLeaks. Podesta’s membership on the board of directors of Joule Unlimited was first revealed in research from Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President Peter Schweizer.
Podesta never disclosed his position on Joule Unlimited’s board of directors and failed to include the stock payout in his federal financial disclosures, as required by law, before he became President Obama’s senior adviser in January 2014 — a possible violation for federal law, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group (TheDCNF).
“Well Podesta should certainly have been more upfront in filling this out. Clearly, it should have been fully disclosed,” Craig Holman, a lobbyist Public Citizen told TheDCNF. “That’s the point of the personal financial disclosure forms, especially for anyone entering the White House.”
This isn’t the first report that alleges connections to Russia within Clinton’s team. Of course, these developments won’t matter to the mainstream press — not because Clinton lost, but because she’s a Democrat.
The media only cares about news that can hurt Trump; they don’t actually care about international conflicts of interest.