Federal prosecutors refused to bring charges against the Clinton Foundation, prompting the FBI to close an investigation into the organization, newly released records show.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas declined to bring charges against the Clinton Foundation in January 2021, according to the records.
That move prompted the FBI to close the case, which had been worked on for years, the records show.
The records were obtained and published (pdf) by the New York Times, which said it received them through a Freedom of Information Act request.
While Clinton was secretary of state, the State Department was one of the nine-member Committee on Foreign Investments that approved the 2010 sale of a majority of Uranium One, a company that has mines and other projects in the United States, to a Russian state company. That same year, Bill Clinton received $500,000 to speak in Moscow from a Russian government-linked bank. The Clinton Foundation also received donations from Uranium One officials before the approval and did not disclose them, despite agreeing to do so before Clinton became secretary of state….