Prosecutor on Jack Smith team discouraged FBI from investigating Clinton Foundation in 2016

Ray Hulser , the former chief of the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section ( PIN ), was identified as the official who "declined prosecution" of the Clinton Foundation in 2016 in Special Counsel John Durham 's report.

The report reveals that the case was opened referring to an intelligence product and corroborating financial reporting that a particular commercial "industry likely engaged a federal public official in a flow of benefits scheme" The New York and Little Rock investigations included predication "based on source reporting that identified foreign governments that had made, or offered to make, contributions to the Foundation in exchange for favorable or preferential treatment from Clinton " A source familiar with the matter said there were multiple SARs filed related.

Special Counsel Jack Smith 's office declined to comment on this story.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller 's nearly two-year investigation yielded no evidence of criminal conspiracy or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials during the 2016 presidential election.

Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy said the decision to appoint a special counsel was "utterly political".