Freedom Watch founder Larry Klayman, the conservative advocate who’s been a thorn in the side of the Clinton family for years, has filed a racketeering lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation in a federal court in Florida.
The lawsuit is a RICO (shorthand for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) case, and it formally alleges what many conservative critics have taken as a matter of presumption: that Hillary Clinton, while serving as secretary of state, used her government position to cash in the favors of foreign donors to Clinton Foundation. It also alleges that former Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills violated Klayman’s 1st Amendment rights by lying about the existence or availability of FOIA-requested information that, it was later revealed, had been housed all along on a non-government computer server in Clinton’s New York home.
The suit’s allegations are much more numerous, and you can view the entire filing here.
The RICO angle focuses on the Clinton Foundation’s alleged role in enriching the Clinton family by proffering favors to donors that, in their fulfillment, required that Secretary Clinton deceive the public, and that she wield policy influence that did not serve the public interest.
The private email server, Klayman argues, was pivotal in providing Hillary Clinton a confidential communication channel for carrying out her alleged influence peddling. From the suit:
Upon information and belief, the server was established in part for the use of Defendant The Clinton Foundation and Defendants Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. Defendant The Clinton Foundation may ownthe server in whole or in part.
As a result, the Defendants concealed from the Plaintiff public records to which the Plaintiff was entitled to under the FOIA Act.
Defendants concealed official government documents such that they were not available to be searched and produced to the Plaintiff under FOIA. Defendants intended to operate a covert enterprise of trading political favors and governmental acts in exchange for donations, which are in effect bribes, to Defendant The Clinton Foundation and/or speaking fees to Defendants Bill and/or Hillary Clinton.
Using concealed communications on the private email server, the Defendants negotiated, arranged and implemented the sale of influence and access to U.S. Government officials and decision-makers and official acts by State and other instrumentalities of the U.S. Government in return for bribes disguised as donations to Defendant The Clinton Foundation and extraordinarily high speaking fees paid to DefendantBill Clinton and Defendant Hillary Clinton.
Klayman is banking on the court sharing in his suspicion that, if the email server can be subpoenaed, it could prove or disprove what he’s alleging. If so, the suit will become the vehicle by which the public may finally glimpse the communications Hillary Clinton destroyed before turning over a curated set of State Department emails to the government.
“Our Congress doesn’t even have the guts to subpoena her documents,” Klayman said in the Washington Examiner. “They’d rather get on Fox News. So we felt had to bring that case. Somebody’s got to do it.”
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