The treasurer of her campaign, William Cunningham III, who is also a lawyer, represented two Arkansas businessmen who applied for pardons, but he did submit the pardons, according to her people, through the Justice Department. We were told that they went through the normal channels and did not contact Hillary Clinton or the White House about those pardons. She said that she knew nothing about the pardons or Cunningham's involvement in that pardon process. Now, Mrs. Clinton did say that she passed on information about pardons because, she said, the word was out that her husband was going to be granting them and people did, in rope lines and in other events, give her packets of information to pass on. Well, number one, Senator Clinton pointed out that it was not like the case with the treasurer of her campaign, who's a lawyer.
Lawyers represent people's pardon applications.
That is normal. Since he did not come to her, he was not abusing access. She said that Hugh Rodham is a family member, her brother. That s what makes it wrong. In her opinion that was a misjudgment and very disappointing.