The former Secretary of the State, Hillary Clinton, has been involved in a corruption scandal after it was revealed that one of her assistants participated in an operation to illegally raise funds during Clinton's Presidential campaign in 2008.
An investigation released on Wednesday to the American media revealed that Minyon Moore, Hillary Clinton's assistant who had already worked in the White House during Bill Clinton's presidency, had allegedly requested funds from businessman Jeffrey E. Thompson to support Hillary's campaign in the 2008 primaries, according to The Washington Examiner.
Thompson, who plead guilty on Monday to charges of conspiracy and illegal financing for over $3 million dollars for Mayor Vincent Gray's campaign in 2010, had been asked by Moore to provide funds for Clinton in Puerto Rico and four US states, according to a report published by The National Journal.
A series of documents presented in court proved that Thompson funneled over $600,000 dollars to a marketing executive in New York to finance street teams and polls, a figure that was never mentioned in Clinton's campaign reports delivered to the Federal Elections Commission.
For the moment, people close to Moore, currently a political consultant in the Washington Dewey Square Group and a member of the National Democrat Committee, denied that the assistant had any knowledge of the businessman's illegal activities and assured that he was never asked for illegal funds for Clinton's campaign, according to a report by the AFP, quoted by IOL News.
Moore is considered to be one of Hillary Clinton's closest assistants, and is expected to work with her again, in case she decides to participate in the 2016 Presidential elections.
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