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In May 2016, Politico caught wind of this while analyzing FEC filings. Politico discovered the HVF would receive money from individuals under the guise of benefiting the Democratic party as a whole and instead would quietly distribute the funds mostly to the Clinton campaign. "The Democratic front-runner says she's raising big checks to help state committees, but they've gotten to keep only 1 percent of the $60 million raised," Politico announced. According to Dan Backer, by transferring money back and forth between committees but eventually filtering them into the Clinton campaign, the HVF basically laundered donations. Politico noted that state party officials were made aware that Clinton's campaign would control the movement of the funds between participating committees. But it appears that no one did anything about it.
The Bernie Sanders campaign was livid when it discovered this practice. Sanders publicly criticized the HVF and the Clinton campaign, accusing Clinton's campaign of "looting funds."
In her 2017 book "Hacks," Brazile recounts how she saw the money being moved in attempt to elude US campaign laws. "Individuals who had maxed out their $2,700 contribution limit to the campaign could write an additional check for $353,400 to the HVF -- that figure represented $10,000 to each of the 32 states' parties who were part of the Fund agreement -- $320,000 -- and $33,400 to the DNC," reads a passage from the book. "The money would be deposited in the states first, and transferred to the DNC shortly after that. Money in the battleground states usually stayed in that state, but all the other states funneled that money directly to the DNC, which quickly transferred the money to [Clinton campaign headquarters in] Brooklyn." [Why Clinton's Donors May Be Investigated In $84 Million Money Laundering Scheme | Townhall.com | April 20, 2018 | Marina Medvin]
...he drafted a statement clearing Clinton of charges two months before the FBI interviewed her in its probe. His twisting the law into a pretzel to avoid prosecuting Clinton screams that political considerations were paramount and superseded any legal analysis. [The Fall of James Comey | Townhall.com | April 20, 2018 | David Limbaugh]