. That Comey felt pressed to step way outside the bounds of what previous directors have done by making his July statement at all , complete with editorial embellishments about Clinton ’s conduct , and then to make new statements about the investigation 11 days before a national election is indeed “ unprecedented and deeply troubling , ” as Clinton herself put it at a rally Saturday . Congress , and some of the same committees pursuing email investigations , hold the purse strings over Comey ’s agency .
The documents we have obtained show the enquiry found betting syndicates in Russia , northern Italy and Sicily making hundreds of thousands of pounds betting on matches investigators thought to be fixed . Three of these matches were at Wimbledon . In a confidential report for the tennis authorities in 2008 , the enquiry team said 28 players involved in these matches should be investigatedjustice.investigate.investigatecrime, but the findings were never followed up . Tennis introduced a new anti - corruption code in 2009 but after taking legal advice were told previous corruption offences could not be pursued . " As a result , no new investigations into any of the players who were mentioned in the 2008 report were opened , " a TIU spokesman said .
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When Hillary Clinton stated her " predecessors did the same thing " with email , this statement was rated " Mostly False " by POLTIFACT . Nobody in U.S. history , since the invention of email , has acted in the manner of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State . Previous secretaries of state were n't investigatedjustice.investigate.investigatecrimeby the FBI , and never used a private server exclusively . Thus , a Democratic nominee at risk of indictment , or incited by the Justice Department at the request of the FBI , will lose to any Republican on November 8 , 2016 . I explain why Democrats need Bernie Sanders now , more than ever , in this YouTube segment .