Hillary Clinton got some bad news on Monday when the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley announced that he has launched a new investigation into her efforts to thwart a Bangladesh government corruption probe of Muhammad Yunus, a Clinton Foundation donor and close friend of the Clintons.

The Daily Caller reported that Clinton sent top U.S. diplomats to pressure Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheik Hasina and her son Sajeeb Wazed in an attempt to thwart that country’s corruption investigation of Yunus and Grameen Bank. At the time, Yunus was managing director of the state-owned Bangladesh bank.

Last week, Grassley wrote a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in which he said that Clinton threatened Wazed with an IRS tax audit if his mother did not back away from the corruption probe. Wazed has been a U.S. resident for 17 years.

“If the Secretary of State used her position to intervene in an independent investigation by a sovereign government simply because of a personal and financial relationship stemming from the Clinton Foundation rather than the legitimate foreign policy interests of the United States, then that would be unacceptable,” Grassley told Tillerson.

“Co-mingling her official position as Secretary of State with her family foundation would be similarly inappropriate. It is vital to determine whether the State Department had any role in the threat of an IRS audit against the son of the Prime Minister in retaliation for this investigation,” Grassley continued.

“They threatened me with the possibility of an audit by the Internal Revenue Service,” Wazed said. “They would say over and over again, ‘Yunus has powerful friends’ and we all knew they were talking of Secretary Clinton. Everybody knew it was Mrs. Clinton.”

Grassley told Tillerson that Wazed told Senate investigators about “two conversations with then-Deputy Chief of Mission to Bangladesh Jon Danilowicz during which Danilowicz mentioned that Wazed may be audited by the IRS if he failed to use his influence to get his mother to drop the investigation into Yunus.”

“Furthermore, he was told by these same officials that Yunus was communicating with Secretary Clinton and her staff for assistance and, in turn, Secretary Clinton’s staff put pressure on the Embassy in Bangladesh to intercede on Yunus’ behalf,” he added.

This marks the first official probe into Clinton since her loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. SHARE this story if you think Hillary Clinton should be LOCKED UP!