Hillary aide Huma facing ‘criminal’ conduct investigation; BUSTED by using

Lawyers for Abedin said she learned in May that the State Department’s inspector general had concluded that she improperly collected $9,857 for periods when she was on vacation or leave.

Republicans in Washington are furious with Clinton for destroying tens of thousands of emails dating from her time in office, and for including classified information in an unknown number of others. Grassley’s panel has previously looked into Abedin’s employment history, including several months when she also worked as a contractor in late 2012 and early 2013.

State Department investigators reportedly determined that Huma Abedin, one of Hillary Clinton’s closet aides, was overpaid by roughly $10,000 during her time at State.

In the letter to Kerry, he also wrote the inspector general was looking at “potential criminal conduct” by Abedin of possible “attendance fraud” but did not offer any information to back up that assertion.

Grassley’s letter to Abedin says that the Office of Inspector General “had found at least a reasonable suspicion of a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641, theft of public money through time and attendance fraud” and another law “related to conflicts of interest connected to your overlapping employment as an SGE and her [sic] employment at Teneo and at the Clinton Foundation”.

The Clinton campaign declined to comment, and Abedin’s attorney told the Post that she was formally contesting the findings, arguing that she did extensive work while on the trip overseas and while on maternity leave.

Abedin left State at the same time as Hillary and is now a top member of her campaign staff, but during the period in question she was an employee of the federal government drawing a very nice salary, the tab for which was picked up by the taxpayers. However, they wrote that the evidence uncovered by the inspector general made it clear that she had worked extensively during those times. What’s not revealed is if she was paid back for unused vacation, either at the end of each year or when she left the State Department. “It simply doesn’t add up”.

“No hardworking, dedicated public servant should be subjected to irresponsible allegations based on a fundamentally flawed report and the State Department has undertaken a review of the report”.

Abedin, an Indian American, is one of Clinton’s most trusted advisors.

Grassley has been questioning Abedin’s “special government employee” status, which allowed her to take a job at the Clinton Foundation and Teneo, a firm led by former aide for Bill Clinton, Douglas Band.

In one instance, Grassley wrote, Band allegedly emailed Abedin to request her help in landing a White House appointment for one of his clients. The friend led a charity that later hired Band’s firm and donated to the Clinton Foundation (a typical case of modern-day Clinton “triangulation”).

However, Grassley did not release the e-mail in question, nor did he allege any wrongdoing by Abedin. There is also the matter of conflict-of-interest.

Band did not respond to requests for comment. “To say otherwise is just patently false and needlessly inflammatory”, said Rodriguez, Abedin’s lawyer.