Peter Smith, GOP operative who sought Hillary Clinton's emails, raised $100,000 before death

A GOP opposition researcher raised at least $100,000 as part of an effort to hunt down emails thought to be stolen from Hillary Clinton’s private email server, according to a report Sunday.

Peter Smith, who is now dead, sought and collected donations from four people as part of a plan to obtain Clinton’s stolen emails from hackers just weeks from the election, the Wall Street Journal reported. The FBI is investigating the fundraising campaign as part of it’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election.