The feds are looking into bank transactions a GOP operative conducted during an independent search for Hillary Clinton's emails

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• Federal investigators are looking into bank transactions conducted by a GOP operative who launched an independent effort to find Hillary Clinton's emails during the 2016 election.
• At the time, Peter W. Smith made clear that he wanted to uncover messages sent through Clinton's private email server and expose them during what was an already heated electoral contest between Clinton and then-candidate Donald Trump.
• According to a BuzzFeed News report published Friday, investigators are focusing on a series of cash transactions Smith allegedly conducted at key points during the search effort.
• Those transactions include a $9,500 withdrawal from an account linked to a shell company Smith set up as part of the email search. He allegedly deposited those funds into his personal bank account, withdrew about $5,000 of it, and "sent checks to an accountant and an LLC controlled by a private real estate company."

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Federal investigators are trying to make sense of some bank transactions conducted by a man who launched an independent effort to find Hillary Clinton's emails at the height of the 2016 election.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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