Hillary is investigated by the Senate - AGAIN! Judiciary Chair looks into whether she meddled in foreign corruption probe to help Clinton Foundation donor

  • Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is looking into whether Hillary Clinton meddled in a Bangladeshi corruption probe to help a donor 
  • Earlier this month, Grassley wrote a letter to current Secretary of State Rex Tillerson requesting information and unredacted copies of Clinton's emails 
  • Clinton is accused of pressuring Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheik Hasina into reinstalling Muhammad Yunus atop the bank he had been running 
  • Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and Clinton friend, was investigated for corruption, but was later cleared 
  • Hasina says Clinton personally called her to pressure her, while Hasina's son says he was threatened with an IRS audit by State Department officials  

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has launched a new investigation into Hillary Clinton over whether the former secretary of state meddled in a Bangladeshi corruption probe to help a Clinton Foundation donor. 

'This new evidence of pay-to-play and special treatment reinforces the appearance that donations to the Clinton Foundation resulted in favorable treatment by Secretary Clinton’s State Department,' Grassley said. 

The Daily Caller first reported Grassley's move after the publication's Investigative Group published a piece in May saying that Clinton had sent top U.S. diplomats to pressure Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheik Hasina, and her son Sajeeb Wazed, as the country investigated Clinton friend Muhammad Yunus for corruption.   

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (pictured) is again the target of a brewing federal investigation, as Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley seeks information on whether Clinton exerted inappropriate influence in a Bangladeshi corruption probe
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is again the target of a brewing federal investigation, as Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (pictured) seeks information on whether Clinton exerted inappropriate influence in a Bangladeshi corruption probe

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (left) is again the target of a brewing federal investigation, as Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (right) seeks information on whether Clinton exerted inappropriate influence in a Bangladeshi corruption probe 

Sen. Chuck Grassley is pointing a finger at Hillary Clinton and accusing her of being engaged with 'pay-to-play' for pressuring Bangladesh's prime minister to reinstall a Clinton ally atop the bank he had been running, before there was a corruption probe 

Sen. Chuck Grassley is pointing a finger at Hillary Clinton and accusing her of being engaged with 'pay-to-play' for pressuring Bangladesh's prime minister to reinstall a Clinton ally atop the bank he had been running, before there was a corruption probe 

Yunus, who led the country's Grameen Bank and whose microfinance concept won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, was accused of overcharging customers and 'sucking blood from the poor.' 

He was later cleared.  

Hasina's targeting of Yunus, which led to the Clinton ally being removed from atop the bank, was viewed as political retribution for when Yunus briefly flirted with getting into politics, the U.K.'s Independent found

But because Clinton and other American officials got involved and Yunus had been a Clinton Global Initiative and Clinton Foundation donor, Grassley smelled pay-to-play.

Yunus had given between $100,000 and $250,000 to CGI, the annual Clinton-fronted gathering in New York, along with $25,000 to $50,000 to the Clinton Foundation. 

'If the Secretary of State used her position to intervene in an independent investigation by a sovereign government simply because of a personal and financial relationship stemming from the Clinton Foundation rather than the legitimate foreign policy interests of  the United States, then that would be unacceptable,' Grassley wrote in a letter dated June 1 to current Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. 

'Co-mingling her official position as Secretary of State with her family foundation would be similarly inappropriate,' Grassley said. 'It is vital to determine whether the State Department had any role in the threat of an IRS audit against the son of the Prime Minister in retaliation for this investigation.' 

In the letter, Grassley said that Hasina had confirmed that Clinton had called her office in 2011 and demanded Yunus be restored to the top position at the bank. 

Additionally, her son Wazed said he had been pressured to push his mother to end the investigation and even threatened with an IRS audit by some State Department officials. 

The four officials Wazed met with were named in the letter, with Grassley requesting that one of them, Jon Danilowicz, the deputy chief of mission in Bangladesh, be made available for interviews with his committee's staff.  

Grassley also wanted to know whether the matter had been referred to the inspector general or the Department of Justice. 

And because Clinton's emails are always part of the story, Grassley attached a number of highly-redacted emails to his exchange with Tillerson, asking for the original copies to be handed over to the Senate committee too.