Hillary Clinton spoke at a fundraiser for a political action committee shortly before the group gave $467,000 to the election campaign of the wife of a senior FBI official who oversaw the investigation into Clinton's private email server.
Clinton headlined the fundraiser for Common Good VA, a state PAC run by Virginia Gov. and longtime Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe, in June 2015, the Daily Mail reports.
The group ended up giving $467,000 to Jill McCabe between June and October 2015 when she ran for a state Senate seat. Her husband, Andrew McCabe, is currently the deputy director of the FBI and was one of the bureau's leading investigators of the Clinton email probe to determine if she mishandled classified material at the State Department.
The fundraiser Clinton spoke at reportedly raked in over $1 million for Common Good VA and the Democratic Party of Virginia. More donations came in later from other Clinton backers around the country.
The Democratic Party of Virginia, over which McAuliffe has significant influence as governor, also gave Jill McCabe's campaign $207,788.
At least five employees from Common Good VA later held senior positions within Clinton's presidential campaign, the Daily Mail reported.
The payment from Common Good VA has raised questions surrounding the independence of the FBI investigation.
But Republicans said the large payments from McAuliffe's PAC to Jill McCabe raise questions about the impartiality of the FBI's investigation, which determined that Clinton and her aides did not violate any laws while using a private email server to conduct government business.