An official at the Clinton Global Initiative sent top State Department aide Melanne Verveer a 63-page list of individuals, groups and companies that had pledged money to its programs.
An employee at another Clinton Foundation offshoot emailed Verveer looking for a job for a former colleague.
Yet another asked whether Verveer could persuade Myanmar’s internationally acclaimed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to attend an event.
Verveer, a longtime Hillary Clinton confidante who served as her chief of staff at the White House before becoming ambassador at large for global women’s issues, was in regular contact with Clinton Foundation officials during her four years at the State Department, according to dozens of emails.
She helped hone the group’s message on women’s issues, provided ideas for meetings, fielded speaking invitations and responded to requests from donors, including one from ExxonMobil to introduce a Cameroon entrepreneur at an event. In 2011, Verveer joined a Clinton Global Initiative advisory committee to plan the group’s annual meeting.
While Clinton had signed an ethics agreement to largely remove herself from issues involving her family’s foundation after she became the nation’s top diplomat in 2009, the document did not apply to her aides at the State Department.
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