- Fri Jul 14, 2017 1:19 pm
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GOP operative who sought Clinton's emails committed suicide. A Republican Party operative who was trying to obtain Hillary Clinton’s emails from Russian hackers committed suicide days after speaking to The Wall Street Journal about his efforts, records acquired by the Chicago Tribune show. Smith said he had created a team to find the emails that might have been stolen by hackers during Clinton’s tenure as U.S. Secretary of State, although the Journal reported Smith was focused on obtaining the 30,000 emails Clinton claimed she deleted because they were personal.
Peter W. Smith, an 81-year-old from Chicago, was found dead in a Rochester, Minnesota hotel room on May 14. The Tribune obtained a state death record stating Smith committed suicide in the hotel on the date. His death, which a police chief called “unusual,” had been recorded as “asphyxiation due to displacement of oxygen in a confined space with helium.” Smith was found with a bag over his head and a helium source attached.
