(NationalSentinel) Several hundred emails from former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton sat unprotected in a private Gmail account for more than two years and remained there about two weeks before then-FBI Director James Comey exonerated her for criminal mishandling of national secrets.
The Epoch Times reported that the emails came under scrutiny by GOP lawmakers because of the account name — carterheavyindustries@gmail.com — which was very similar to that of a Chinese firm, Shandong Carter Heavy Industry Machinery CO., Ltd.
The sameness of the account name and the Chinese company gave Republicans some concern that a foreign government-linked entity had managed to gain access to the emails.
Paul Combetta, an employee for Platte River Networks (PRN), the company that managed Clinton’s private email server between 2013-2015, said he created the name of the email account and used it in February 2014 to transfer Clinton’s archived emails to a new server.