Former FBI official: Hacker likely extradited for Clinton probe

By Rudy Takala
Published April 10, 2016 6:46pm ET
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Former FBI official: Hacker likely extradited for Clinton probe
The FBI is expected to conclude its lengthy investigation into Clinton's surreptitious server with interviews of Clinton and more than a dozen of her associates. If authorities are in fact obtaining new information from Guccifer, that might explain the delay. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) | Evan Vucci

A former assistant director for the FBI said Friday that authorities would not have gone to the trouble of extraditing a notorious Romanian hacker unless he was key to their investigation of Hillary Clinton.

Marcel Lehel Lazar, known online as “Guccifer,” was extradited from a Romanian prison at the end of March and relocated to a facility in Alexandria, Va. He is scheduled to remain in the country for 18 months while he faces a nine-count federal indictment on hacking charges.

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