A major Clinton donor and friend to Huma Abedin recently said that the longtime aide receiving scrutiny for her involvement in Clinton’s email scandal "would die for Hillary."
Marc Lasry, who has already donated thousands to Hillary for America and has contributed between $100,000 and $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation, told the New York Times that Abedin is "as loyal as they come" to Clinton.
"She loves Hillary," Lasry explained. "She would die for Hillary. Really, what she’s always looking at is, ‘What’s in the best interest of Hillary?’"
"Her life is Hillary," added the donor, who is close enough to Abedin to have attended her wedding to former congressman Anthony Weiner.
Abedin, now the vice chair of Clinton’s presidential campaign, has been thrust under scrutiny as the FBI continues to investigate the security of the private email system Clinton exclusively used while at the State Department, during which time Abedin worked under her as an aide.
The donor’s comments come weeks after an anonymous State Department official speculated that a member of Clinton’s "inner circle" likely cleared emails contained on her private system of any classification markings.
While the inspector general of the intelligence community has concluded that at least two of the emails held on Clinton’s personal system contain "top secret" information, the Democratic presidential candidate has repeatedly insisted that she never knowingly sent or received classified information on her personal account.
If determined to have knowingly sent, stored, or received classified information in a location unauthorized by the government, Clinton could face prosecution.
The State Department official told Fox News at least one of the emails flagged by Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III " would have had to come in with all the appropriate classification markings," indicating that the message’s classification marking was somehow disabled.
"[S]omewhere between the point they came into the building and the time they reached HRC’s server, someone would have had to strip the classification markings from that information before it was transmitted to HRC’s personal email," the unnamed official explained.
Such an action, the State official emphasized, would "constitute a felony, in and of itself."
In addition to being analyzed for her involvement in the email controversy, Abedin has received particular scrutiny from Senate Judiciary Committee chair Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), who recently accused the longtime Clinton aide of accepting nearly $10,000 in overpayments from the State Department.
Grassley has also been probing Abedin’s "special government employee" status that allowed her to work for the Clinton Foundation and a firm with ties to the Clintons during her last six months at State.
A lawyer for Abedin recently accused the GOP senator of "unfairly tarnish[ing]" her reputation by making "unsubstantiated allegations."
Abedin’s work is also currently the subject of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit brought against the State Department by public interest law group Judicial Watch, which has itself become tangled in the controversy surrounding Clinton’s email account.
Director of investigations for Judicial Watch Chris Farrell recently told the Washington Free Beacon that Clinton, Abedin, and another former aide, Cheryl Mills, appear to have violated two national security laws in the email saga.