Tech specialist who helped Hillary Clinton set up her private email server flips – and is now willing to cooperate with the FBI after pleading the Fifth Amendment
Bryan Pagliano, 39, the IT specialist who set up Hillary Clinton’s controversial private email server, is cooperating with the FBI
In return the Department of Justice has given the former State Department employee and Clinton presidential campaign staffer immunity
Pagliano set up the server at Clinton’s New York home in 2009 during the time she was Secretary of State
The probe is trying to determine if Clinton, current Democratic Presidential candidate, mishandled classified information
The FBI will likely want to interview Clinton and her senior aides in the coming months as it hopes to wrap up its investigation
By ALEXANDRA KLAUSNER
DAILYMAIL.COM
3 March 2016
First he said he would invoke his Fifth Amendment rights but now the IT specialist, who set up Hillary Clinton’s controversial private email server, is ready to cooperate with the FBI.
In doing so, Bryan Pagliano, 39, has been granted immunity by the Justice Department as it continues its criminal investigation into whether or not the current Democratic Presidential candidate mishandled classified information.
Pagliano, a former State Department employee and Clinton presidential campaign staffer, set up the server in 2009 at her New York home during her time as Secretary of State.
The FBI will likely want to interview Clinton and her senior aides about the decision to use a private server as it hopes to wrap its investigation in the coming months, current and former officials told The Washington Post.
‘There was wrongdoing,’ said one official to the newspaper. ‘But was it criminal wrongdoing?’
Pagliano said last year he would use his Fifth Amendment rights in order to not testify before the House committee on Benghazi.
At the time Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Clinton’s presidential campaign, said: ‘(Clinton has) encouraged everyone to cooperate because we want to make every good-faith effort to be transparent and answer any questions people have.
The Rest…HERE
