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Feds Investigate Abedin Crime Family For Conspiracy, Wire Fraud

Two of Huma Abedin�s cousins have been arrested and she has been named, along with Hillary

Clinton�s State Department, in a US Department of Justice prosecution, court records show.

Other documents reveal the same allegedly crooked cousins solicited Huma Abedin for

help at State in a deal that netted the Abedins more than $1.2 million in federal grants.

Huma�s first cousin Omar Amanat has been indicted and placed under house arrest before

the trial on Oct. 2.

Another cousin, Irfan Amanat, has also been arrested in connection with the same case.

WND reports: These undesirable family connections, revealed here for the first time, raise fresh

questions about influence peddling at the State Department under Clinton, who is now

reportedly working with Abedin on a political comeback.

Abedin�s relatives were major donors to the Clinton Foundation.

And Abedin drew a salary from the Clinton Foundation, while at the same time working

for the government.

Records show that her first cousin, Omar Amanat, is under federal indictment for cheating investors

in Kit Digital Inc. of millions of dollars between 2009 and 2012, forcing the tech start-up

to go bankrupt in 2013.

He has been placed under house arrest as he awaits trial, which is scheduled for Oct.

2.

Another Abedin cousin, Irfan Amanat, is under indictment in the same case.

He was arrested in December after returning to the U.S. from the United Arab Emirates.

Prosecutors say Omar Amanat illegally diverted millions of dollars from investments in Kit

Digital �for his personal use,� including �luxury properties in Manhattan.� He �never

disclosed these misappropriations to investors,� who were misled about the value of the company

by false balance sheets.

He has pleaded not guilty.

Recent letters, Part 1 and Part 2 here, from attorneys for Omar and another co-defendant

asking the judge to ease their detention reveal that Omar once warned Huma while she was at

the State Department that she and other family members were under threat of being �hurt�

by �special collection agents� trying to recover stolen funds.

Court exhibits reveal that Omar was worried about Huma�s safety and contacted the State

Department to make her �aware of this incident.�

Moreover, Kit Digital appears in State Department emails sent to Abedin from Amanat and a business

partner.

In June 2009, not long after starting Kit Digital and just months after his cousin was

named deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Clinton, Amanat helped his business

partner solicit Abedin for State favors on behalf of Soliya Inc., which was in partnership

with Kit Digital.

Summit Entertainment, a film company Amanat held a controlling stake in at the time, also

stood to benefit.

�Thanks for getting in touch.

Would love to arrange a meeting,� Abedin replied in a June 23, 2009, email to Amanat

and Shamil Idriss, who heads New York-based Soliya Inc.

In May 2010, Clinton helped Soliya get access to U.N. funding by making the U.S. a participant

in a U.N. high-tech media initiative called the Alliance of Civilizations.

Then in October 2010, the State Department directly awarded Soliya $1.25 million for

a media technology project.

�Huma helped Omar make KIT appear more valuable because of its association with the Alliance

of Civilizations, which was approved by Hillary and funded in part by U.S. grants,� said

an attorney familiar with the case.

�This helped Omar raise money for KIT, which he and his brother misappropriated for other

purposes.

Approximately $6 million has vanished.�

Amanat took KIT Digital public in August 2009.

At the time, Amanat, known as a �serial swindler,� was in personal bankruptcy and

being sued by other investors.

Despite his reputation, he still managed to gain special access to the government thanks

to his ties to his well-positioned cousin and the Clinton Foundation.

Records show that Amanat and several other family members and related charities have

together donated as much as $1.2 million to the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global

Initiative, as well as the Clinton Health Access Initiative.

Amanat, who personally contributed as much as $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation, was

appointed to the Council on Foreign Relations during the time that Hillary Clinton was serving

as secretary of state.

While the FBI has closed its espionage investigation into Clinton�s unsecured private email server,

its public corruption investigation into the Clinton Foundation remains open.

It�s not clear if this still-active probe overlaps with the Amanat fraud investigation.

However, investigators reportedly continue to look into alleged �pay-for-play� schemes

involving the Clinton State Department and the Clinton Foundation and its wealthy donors,

as well as entities that paid the Clintons millions of dollars in speaking fees.

Judicial Watch and other government watchdog groups have charged that the Clinton Foundation

was a pay-for-play operation that rewarded its benefactors with State Department favors.

Meanwhile, Abedin�s estranged husband, former Democratic U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, remains

under federal investigation for child pornography.

The laptop Weiner used to communicate with an underage girl was seized by the FBI and

helped derail Clinton�s presidential bid when FBI Director James Comey announced in

October that some of her emails to Abedin had been found on it.

The emails were stored on a Yahoo account.

Interestingly, federal investigators say Omar Amanat tried to scrub emails from his own

Yahoo account so they couldn�t obtain them as evidence.

In 2008, �Omar Amanat emailed Irfan Amanat and requested his help to �delete all of

my emails from the Yahoo site but download them onto my laptop,�� a December court

filing says.

�Omar Amanat expressed �concern about them subp[0]ening Yahoo at some point.��

Amanat�s attorney, Eric Creizman, did not respond to requests for comment.

Attempts to reach Abedin were unsuccessful.

Former Clinton campaign press secretary Nick Merrill did not reply to questions.

Though never reported in the media until now, the Abedin and Amanat families are not only

related but very close, maintaining roots in New Jersey going back decades.

In fact, Omar Amanat�s parents, Sharif and Hamida Amanat, once hosted Huma Abedin�s

parents, Syed and Saleha Abedin, at their New Jersey home when Huma�s ailing father

had to move back temporarily from Saudi Arabia to undergo a kidney transplant.

The Amanats helped the couple continue publishing their Saudi-based journal promoting Shariah

law from the U.S.

In fact, Omar�s mother, Hamida Amanat, has contributed articles to the journal.

�Dr. Sharif Amanat and his precious wife Hamida created an environment so congenial

and supportive that without it it would have been impossible to function effectively,�

a recovering Syed Abedin wrote in a 1991 issue of his �Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs

Journal.� �I have no words to thank them.�

Omar and Huma, who are related through their mothers, who are sisters, have also maintained

a long and close-knit relationship.

Property and financial records show that in 1999, when Huma was in Washington working

as a White House aide to then-first lady Clinton, Omar used her D.C. condo as one of the addresses

for another of his start-ups, Tradescape Corp.

After Omar Amanat sold Tradescape to E-Trade in 2002 for $100 million in stock, he started

the Amanat Family Support Trust, which names cousins as well as immediate family members

as beneficiaries � meaning Huma Abedin would stand to benefit from his family trust.