Ray Hulser, a top prosecutor on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team that indicted Donald Trump, was the chief of the Justice Department’s public integrity section in 2016 when he declined to pursue an investigation into the Clinton Foundation stemming from Peter Schweizer’s 2015 book, Clinton Cash, according to a new report from the Daily Mail.
Hulser was named in the Durham Report as having declined the requests of several FBI field offices to begin a formal investigation into charges of possible corruption, first raised in Clinton Cash. Among other revelations, the book documented massive donations from the chairman of a company called Uranium One to the Bill and Hilly Clinton Foundation around the time that the State Department approved the sale of that company to the Russian-government uranium business called Rosatom.
The Daily Mail’s report reviews many of the actions by top players at the Justice Department and the FBI who squelched efforts to investigate the Clinton Foundation based on the book’s documentation, specifically mentioning former FBI Director James Comey and his deputy, Andrew McCabe, both of whom were later fired by President Trump.
Schweizer told the Daily Mail previously he was surprised to learn the FBI had launched three criminal probes on the strength of his book.
“I was a little surprised that there was as much activity as there was. I had no idea that much paddling was going on underneath the surface of the water,” he said.
“I got a call from somebody from the New York FBI office after the book came out,” he added.
