Politics

EXCLUSIVE: Clinton Foundation Probes May Be Moving Forward In Three Cities

REUTERS/Chris Keane

Daily Caller News Foundation logo
Font Size:

Joint investigations by the FBI and various U.S. Attorneys of Clinton Foundation activities are most likely underway in Little Rock, Arkansas, Washington, D.C. and New York, according to a former assistant director of the FBI.

“To me, those would be the three most logical cities,” Ron Hosko told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Discrete information has made its way to local field offices and is being shared with their counterparts at the U.S. Attorney offices.”

Hosko is a 30-year veteran of the FBI and was the second highest ranking official behind director James Comey when he left the bureau in 2014.

Hosko was responding to TheDCNF report Friday that multiple FBI field offices and U.S. Attorneys in various cities are leading investigations about possible corrupt practices among Clinton Foundation officials, foundation donors, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and inner circle of aides during her years as America’s chief international diplomat.

The lead U.S. Attorney is said to be Preet Bharara who runs a tough prosecutorial office in the Southern District of New York, according to a former senior law enforcement official who first told TheDCNF about the multi-pronged investigations.

Former U.S. Attorney Joseph DiGenova told TheDCNF that the Southern District is one of the most independent prosecutorial offices in the country. The U.S. Attorneys there are fiercely independent and often thumb their noses at the Justice Department in Washington, he said.

One of the most memorable independent probes by the Southern District was its indictment of former Attorney General John Mitchell in the early 1970s against the wishes of the Justice Department under President Richard M. Nixon.

“The Southern District of New York is frequently known as ‘DOJ North’ and has always been extremely independent and has chafed at supervision by the Justice Department,” DiGenova said.

A Justice Department spokesman on Friday conspicuously did not deny TheDCNF story, saying only to Fox News “we’re declining to comment” on it. FBI spokesman Samantha Shero told TheDCNF Thursday that “we do not have a comment on investigative activity.” Similarly, a spokesman for Bharara’s office declined comment.

DiGenova read those responses as non-denials. “They didn’t say there wasn’t such an investigation.  They basically confirmed that there’s an investigation and they’re not going to talk about it.”

The general public doesn’t realize that, while the Justice Department in Washington may not be proceeding with any formal Clinton Foundation investigation, that does not rule out authorized probes by FBI field offices and their counterparts at the U.S. Attorney’s offices, according to Hosko.

The former senior FBI official said the existence of Clinton Foundation multi-city investigations “appear credible” adding that the FBI handling of Clinton’s email server scandal was an “outlier” — highly unusual for being exclusively run out of FBI headquarters.

“That case was unusual,” he told TheDCNF.  “The Clinton email case was worked by a group of individuals at FBI Headquarters. Cases by and large, tens of thousands of them, are almost exclusively worked in the field offices.”

The motivation for outside FBI agents and U.S. Attorneys to launch their own probes into the Clinton Foundation may reflect dissatisfaction with the decision by U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to meet privately with former President Bill Clinton in a parked aircraft at a remote part of the Phoenix, Arizona, airport on June 28.

“I think she lost a lot of people in the department when she got on that plane and talked to that President. She hurt herself severely with the people within the department, certainly with the people with the FBI,” the former U.S. Attorney said.

“I think she’s been locked out. To me, it shows the lack of confidence that the U.S. Attorneys offices have in her as a law enforcement official,” DiGenova said.

The New York focus most likely is related to the fact that the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation main offices are in New York and the Clinton Global Initiative, the foundation’s glittering gathering of the rich and powerful, occurs every September in New York.

A Washington investigation could center on Hillary Clinton and her aides during their time at the State Department. The Clinton Foundation was initially established in Little Rock to build the Clinton Presidential Library.

Follow Richard on Twitter

All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter’s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.

PREMIUM ARTICLE: Subscribe To Keep Reading

Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!

Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!

Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!

Sign Up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
BENEFITS READERS PASS PATRIOTS FOUNDERS
Daily and Breaking Newsletters
Daily Caller Shows
Ad Free Experience
Exclusive Articles
Custom Newsletters
Editor Daily Rundown
Behind The Scenes Coverage
Award Winning Documentaries
Patriot War Room
Patriot Live Chat
Exclusive Events
Gold Membership Card
Tucker Mug

What does Founders Club include?

Tucker Mug and Membership Card
Founders

Readers,

Instead of sucking up to the political and corporate powers that dominate America, The Daily Caller is fighting for you — our readers. We humbly ask you to consider joining us in this fight.

Now that millions of readers are rejecting the increasingly biased and even corrupt corporate media and joining us daily, there are powerful forces lined up to stop us: the old guard of the news media hopes to marginalize us; the big corporate ad agencies want to deprive us of revenue and put us out of business; senators threaten to have our reporters arrested for asking simple questions; the big tech platforms want to limit our ability to communicate with you; and the political party establishments feel threatened by our independence.

We don't complain -- we can't stand complainers -- but we do call it how we see it. We have a fight on our hands, and it's intense. We need your help to smash through the big tech, big media and big government blockade.

We're the insurgent outsiders for a reason: our deep-dive investigations hold the powerful to account. Our original videos undermine their narratives on a daily basis. Even our insistence on having fun infuriates them -- because we won’t bend the knee to political correctness.

One reason we stand apart is because we are not afraid to say we love America. We love her with every fiber of our being, and we think she's worth saving from today’s craziness.

Help us save her.

A second reason we stand out is the sheer number of honest responsible reporters we have helped train. We have trained so many solid reporters that they now hold prominent positions at publications across the political spectrum. Hear a rare reasonable voice at a place like CNN? There’s a good chance they were trained at Daily Caller. Same goes for the numerous Daily Caller alumni dominating the news coverage at outlets such as Fox News, Newsmax, Daily Wire and many others.

Simply put, America needs solid reporters fighting to tell the truth or we will never have honest elections or a fair system. We are working tirelessly to make that happen and we are making a difference.

Since 2010, The Daily Caller has grown immensely. We're in the halls of Congress. We're in the Oval Office. And we're in up to 20 million homes every single month. That's 20 million Americans like you who are impossible to ignore.

We can overcome the forces lined up against all of us. This is an important mission but we can’t do it unless you — the everyday Americans forgotten by the establishment — have our back.

Please consider becoming a Daily Caller Patriot today, and help us keep doing work that holds politicians, corporations and other leaders accountable. Help us thumb our noses at political correctness. Help us train a new generation of news reporters who will actually tell the truth. And help us remind Americans everywhere that there are millions of us who remain clear-eyed about our country's greatness.

In return for membership, Daily Caller Patriots will be able to read The Daily Caller without any of the ads that we have long used to support our mission. We know the ads drive you crazy. They drive us crazy too. But we need revenue to keep the fight going. If you join us, we will cut out the ads for you and put every Lincoln-headed cent we earn into amplifying our voice, training even more solid reporters, and giving you the ad-free experience and lightning fast website you deserve.

Patriots will also be eligible for Patriots Only content, newsletters, chats and live events with our reporters and editors. It's simple: welcome us into your lives, and we'll welcome you into ours.

We can save America together.

Become a Daily Caller Patriot today.

Signature

Neil Patel