Shirley Sarkar, a veteran of the Clinton State Department, confirmed to CNN that Clinton broke the law by having multiple email accounts including a personal one in which she sent hundreds of messages to herself. But that still did not prevent her from being sworn in as secretary of state.

A top Clinton campaign aide also suggested that the Clinton Foundation was being used for private gain. Campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin told a reporter, though, that the foundation has done no such thing.

“We have done no favors for any foreign government,” he said.

But a recent FBI assessment of the foundation’s fundraising raises legitimate questions and leads to some disturbing conclusions, like what role the nonprofit played in “pay-to-play” corruption, or the way Clinton Foundation officials coordinated with Clinton State Department officials to benefit her family’s nonprofit. Such cooperation with the State Department has been reported on but apparently largely ignored by political pundits.

The latest batch of emails is potentially important to find. At the foundation, emails between staffers discussing Clinton Foundation fundraising are the most incriminating evidence known to date, showing how the foundation set up meetings with donors, where meetings took place, and how much money they raised.

While the emails appear to come from the Clinton State Department, Clinton did in fact take meetings at the foundation meetings even though she was secretary of state. Her staff did so routinely. As the Washington Post reported last month, “Clinton was likely familiar with foundation officials who were at meetings with her in December and January 2012, when she was secretary. She’s also got ties. Hillary Rodham Clinton served on the board of the Chelsea Clinton Foundation, where Chelsea sits on the board.”

One email showed Clinton meeting with two foundation advisers, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign has denied that the foundation improperly influenced the Secretary of State, but it certainly should. The Clintons have never had the most open and transparent of relationships. They constantly clashed with aides to both Republicans and Democratic predecessors for favor they considered favorable.

Her aides certainly appear to have done so to benefit Hillary Clinton, especially when it comes to the Foundation and raising money from foreign governments — some that have engaged in human rights abuses, such as Saudi Arabia. At many of her foundation’s events, they gave donors access to her family and Clinton Foundation officials, often even taking the place of State Department officials. On many occasions, foundation foreign policy official Huma Abedin helped raise money for