Clintons private server Emails show donors may have received special access
Texas Insider Report: WASHIGTON D.C. A spokeswoman for Cong. Marsha Blackburn who led the effort to demand an IRS investigation into the Bill & Hillary Clinton Foundation for alleged fraud and asked the agency to open an inquiry told the Washington Examiner earlier today that the IRS has referred her request to its Exempt Organizations Examinations Program.
Emails from Hillary Clintons private email server showed that donors to the Clinton Foundation may have received special access to the State Department while Clinton led the department.
The move signals a shift from the IRSs announcement last year that it would not look into allegations of financial irregularities at the well-connected charity amid controversy over its acceptance of foreign donations while Hillary Clinton was serving as Secretary of State.
The Blackstone Group donated between $250000 and $500000 to the Clinton Foundation donor records show. Companies like the Blackstone Group Honeywell Merck Boeing and others donated 100s of 1000s of dollars or even millions to the foundation and then had access to high level State Department officials or even Clinton herself
Clinton seemingly influenced a major corporate donors ability to secure a visa from the State Department during her first year in office when she asked one of her aides in September 2009 to check on the status of a visa for an executive at Blackstone Group.
Clinton wrote to the aide that Steve Schwarzman Blackstones CEO had wanted help on a visa and that her chief of staff Cheryl Mills had already been approached about securing it.
Blackburn (at left) said her office received news of the probe Monday the first day of the Democratic convention honoring Clinton.
