The issue focused on the case of an Obama administration official, who was paid to set up a political campaign in 2015 and had been sent by the president's former political director, David Plouffe, to use his law firm, WilmerHale, to do it.

A federal court has now decided that there is no evidence to show that any money was taken. The legal fight would be over what information was given to the Clinton campaign.

Pulitzer-prize winning attorney Mark Z