Jury acquits one defendant of conspiring to funnel millions to back Clinton in 2016

Rani El-Saadi was acquitted of a conspiracy to use straw donors and pass-throughs to donate millions of dollars to political funds backing Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race. Prosecutors say the campaigns who received the funds were unaware of any impropriety. | Monica Schipper/Getty Images

A federal jury in Washington on Thursday acquitted one man of a conspiracy to use straw donors and pass-throughs to donate millions of dollars to political funds backing Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race, but jurors may be deadlocked on the fate of another man on trial in the case.

The jury returned the not-guilty verdicts for Rani

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