Security contractor Erik Prince, brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, helped finance an effort to obtain Hillary Clinton's deleted emails in 2016, according to the publicly released version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report
The redacted report said the effort was led by Barbara Ledeen, a onetime GOP staffer on Capitol Hill and associate of President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Flynn reached out to Ledeen after Trump privately and repeatedly asked him and other campaign officials to obtain the deleted emails from Clinton's private server, according to the report.
In September 2016, Ledeen claimed to have actually received"a trove of emails" that belonged to Clinton, but wanted to authenticate the emails, the report said. Prince"provided funding to hire a tech advisor to ascertain the authenticity of the emails," the report said. The analysis determined the emails were not real.Read MoreA spokesperson for Prince, Marc Cohen, declined to comment when reached via email by CNN.
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