By Chuck Ross, Daily Caller
Newly released State Department emails appear to show that a top Clinton Foundation official asked Hillary Clinton’s State Department aides for favors for two individuals — controversial multi-million dollar Clinton Foundation donor and for an unnamed associate.
The April 2009 exchanges, which the State Department provided to the watchdog group Judicial Watch, will likely raise more questions about conflicts of interest between the former secretary of state and her family charity.
In one exchange, Doug Band, the former “body man” to Bill Clinton, forwarded an email from an associate to Hillary Clinton aides Huma Abedin, Nora Toiv, and Cheryl Mills.
The unidentified individual had sent an email to Band with the subject line: “A favor.”
“Important to take care of [redacted],” Band, who then served as a top adviser to the Clinton Foundation, wrote to the trio of Hillary Clinton aides.
“Important to take care of [redacted],” Band, who then served as a top adviser to the Clinton Foundation, wrote to the trio of Hillary Clinton aides.
Abedin replied: “We all have had him on our radar. Personnel has been sending him options.”
Another email released to Judicial Watch shows that Band asked Abedin and Mills for help in connecting Gilbert Chagoury, a controversial Clinton Foundation donor, to a top State Department official in order to discuss events in Lebanon.
Band asked the Clinton aides to connect Chagoury, a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire who has given at least $1 million to the Clinton Foundation, to the State Department’s “substance person” on Lebanon.
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