Grassley is concerned that the private email allowed Clinton, Abedin and other high-ranking State Department officials to conduct official business without archiving them for government record-keeping purposes as required by federal laws and regulations.
Abedin received a rare designation of Special Government Employee that allowed her to draw her official salary as well as compensation from a private consulting firm with close links to President Clinton and the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
In a March 19 letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, Grassley said "a number of conflict of interest concerns arise when a government employee is simultaneously being paid by a private company, especially when that company, Teneo, 'brings together the disciplines of government and public affairs.'"