Revealed: how State Department aides tried to get billionaires and donors access to Clinton on official secretary of state trips abroad
Citizens United released more than 600 pages of documents obtained from the State Department on Thursday
The email includes Clinton staff efforts to pass on inquiries about wealthy supporters to get on her plane during overseas trips
Clinton Foundation forwarded suggestion by billionaire hedge funder Marc Lasry to bring business bigs along for Clinton's overseas trips
Lasry is one of the top contributors to Clinton's 2016 campaign
Huma Abedin tried to get New York investor and member of 'Indian diaspora' on Clinton trip to India
By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.s. Political Editor For Mailonline.com In Winston Salem
Published: 13:14 EST, 27 October 2016 | Updated: 15:33 EST, 27 October 2016
Hillary Clinton’s State Department aides batted around a series of proposals to let wealthy and influential entrepreneurs and investors tag along for Clinton’s overseas trips as she engaged in shuttle diplomacy that took her all over the world.
The emails, released by Citizens United, come from official State Department archives – as opposed to hacked emails that have roiled the Clinton campaign for weeks.
Dennis Cheng, who is Clinton's campaign fundraising chair but used to hold a protocol post at the State Department (he later directed development at the Clinton Foundation) emailed Huma Abedin one such proposal in October 2010.
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