DOJ Finds No Evidence Rudy Giuliani Was Tipped Off to Hillary Clinton Email Investigation

The Department of Justice‘s inspector basic stated Thursday that no proof was discovered of FBI brokers sharing inside info with Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump‘s former lawyer, in regards to the Hillary Clinton electronic mail investigation.

During an Oct. 26, 2016 tv look, Giuliani stated that then-candidate Trump had “some fairly large surprises” within the coming days. Two days later, James Comey, the FBI director on the time, introduced the Clinton electronic mail investigation can be reopened after new emails had been found.

Due to the timing of Giuliani’s assertion relating to “surprises”, the query of whether or not Giuliani had been leaked info from somebody in regards to the investigation arose.

Guiliani denied any prior information of the investigation, and the inspector basic’s workplace reported it discovered no proof that Giuliani had been alerted to the FBI’s plans.

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The inspector basic seemed into whether or not anybody had improperly tipped off Giuliani, and extra broadly examined contacts between FBI officers and reporters through the course of the investigation into whether or not Clinton had mishandled categorized info on her private electronic mail server.

According to a report issued Thursday, Giuliani advised the watchdog workplace that he had not acquired any details about the Clinton investigation and that Comey’s feedback reopening the probe had been a “shock to me. I had no foreknowledge of them.” He stated he hadn’t been involved with any present FBI brokers throughout that month, and that the previous officers he communicated with didn’t have details about FBI investigations.

As a part of the investigation, the inspector basic’s workplace requested the FBI to decide which brokers could have been in contact with Giuliani. The FBI recognized 4 workers, however every worker advised the watchdog workplace throughout interviews they’d not had any contact with Giuliani.

The FBI stated the 4 workers had used their FBI units to name phone numbers related to Giuliani, however the inspector basic’s workplace stated that info was both outdated or meaningless.

Two of the cellphone numbers had been for the final line of the New York workplace of the regulation agency the place Giuliani had labored, and the opposite two had been for companies “at which Giuliani had not been affiliated since at the least 2007,” the inspector basic’s workplace stated.

“The phone numbers attributed by the FBI to Giuliani weren’t, due to this fact, particular to Giuliani,” the report stated. “Accordingly, the purported investigative leads offered by the FBI based mostly on alleged FBI worker contacts with Giuliani had been inaccurate.”