New Hillary Clinton emails reveal possible links between State Dept. and Clinton Foundation

Judicial Watch recently released more emails from the State Department that revealed possible favors granted by the department for the benefit of the controversial Clinton Foundation.

The conservative watchdog organization added 296 pages of emails by the office of then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, including 44 records that were not part of the 55,000 pages already submitted, despite Clinton taking an oath under law to turn over all of her government emails to the State Department.

The newly released emails involved Doug Band, a top official for the Clinton Foundation, including The William J. Clinton Foundation or the Clinton Global Initiative, and co-founder of Teneo Strategy with former President Bill Clinton.

Band emailed former aides at the Department Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin in April 2009 to secure a post for an associate.

Band also tells the former aides to connect Gilbert Chagoury, a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire and top donor of the Clinton Foundation, with the "key guy" in Lebanon. Abedin responded by pointing to Jeff Feltman, the eU.S. ambassador to the western Asian country at the time.

"No wonder Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin hid emails from the American people, the courts and Congress," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a press release. "They show the Clinton Foundation, Clinton donors, and operatives worked with Hillary Clinton in potential violation of the law."

The Democratic presidential candidate's camp responded to the allegations resulting from the latest documents by undermining its relations with Clinton's role as secretary of state or that of the Clinton Foundation.

"Neither of these emails involve the secretary or relate to the Foundation's work," said Clinton's campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin in an email statement to CNN. "They are communications between her aides and the President's personal aide, and indeed the recommendation was for one of the Secretary's former staffers who was not employed by the Foundation."

Feltman also categorically denied meeting or even speaking with Chagoury.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's side quickly pounced on the new batch of emails as proof of the current administration's "refusal to allow even a cursory investigation into the Clinton Foundation's pay-for-play dealings smacks of political favoritism."