Report: Hillary Clinton Offered Plea Deal by DOJ

From an August 2017 report…

Hillary Clinton was allegedly offered a plea deal after the U.S. Department of Justice reopened an investigation into her e-mail server, according to a single claim. Until more credible media outlets pick up on the story it is currently an unproven claim.

Snopes is reporting that the claim is currently unproven that Clinton was offered a plea deal in August 2017 after the government’s agency reopened the investigation into her handling of classified material on a private server. Where did this unproven claim originate?

NewsMax author Ed Klein published the article titled “Hillary’s Plea Bargain” on Aug. 8, 2017, where he writes that Clinton was given a plea bargain when it was believed that the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate was prosecutable on “a number of counts.”

Klein’s claim was based upon a single anonymous source who was allegedly Clinton’s lawyer. Klein claimed that “discussion” of a plea took place in July 2017 between the unnamed lawyer and “a high-ranking Justice Department” official as you can read below.

The Justice Department has reopened the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified material on her private email system while she was secretary of state, and is considering offering her a plea bargain if she will agree to plead guilty to charges of breaking the law, according to a Clinton attorney … During the exploratory talks with the prosecutor, the Clinton attorney was told that despite former FBI Director James Comey’s decision last July not to prosecute Hillary, the Justice Department has reexamined the email case and believes there are ample grounds for prosecuting Hillary on a number of counts.

Under the Justice Department’s plea offer, Hillary would be required to sign a document admitting that she committed a prosecutable crime. In return, the DOJ would agree not to bring charges against Hillary in connection with the email probe.

Also as part of the agreement, the Justice Department would not proceed with an investigation of Hillary’s pay to play deals with foreign governments and businessmen who contributed to the Clinton Foundation or who paid Bill Clinton exorbitant speaking fees.

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