The controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton's personal email address escalated on Thursday when it emerged that her daughter Chelsea Clinton and close confidante Huma Abedin had accounts on the former first lady's homemade server.
Chelsea went under the pseudonym "Diane Reynolds" for her account on clintonemail.com, a name she frequently used when she checked into hotels,
according to The New York Times.
Although her mother used her personal email account to plan Chelsea's wedding, reports say Clinton also conducted official State Department correspondence on the system while she was secretary of state in the Obama administration.
Abedin, the wife of failed New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner who was notoriously caught up in a "sexting" scandal, was described by the Times as Clinton's "longtime aide and surrogate daughter." She was also given a coveted clintonemail.com address, according to the newspaper.
Justin Cooper, a longtime aide to Hillary and Bill Clinton, registered the domain name clintonemail.com, which had a server linked to the Clintons' home address in Chappaqua, N.Y., after she was sworn in as secretary of state in January 2009.
"Obtaining an account from that domain became a symbol of status within the family's inner circle, conferring prestige and closeness to the secretary," wrote the Times' Amy Chozick and Steve Eder.
According to Gawker, a source says at least two top Clinton aides used her private email accounts to conduct government business, putting their official communications outside the control of federal record-keeping regulations.
The source named Philippe Reines and Abedin as the employees who used Clinton's private email addresses in the course of their agency duties.
Reines served as deputy assistant secretary of state, and Abedin as Clinton's deputy chief of staff. They are two of Clinton's most loyal confidantes in and out of the State Department, Gawker reported.
After
mounting criticism over using her personal email account for business purposes while she was secretary of state, Clinton has called for her emails to be made public.
Clinton, the presumed Democrat frontrunner in the 2016 race for the White House, may have violated new federal record-keeping regulations by using her private email system to conduct State Department duties, according to reports.
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