WikiLeaks reveals Hillary-world vexed by 'Bill Clinton Inc.'

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Washington (CNN)A handful of the emails and documents hacked from the private email account of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, detail the at-times uncomfortable overlap between the family charity and the public and private sector careers of the Clintons, dating back long before Clinton's formal campaign for president began.

The anxiety -- centered around the nexus of Clinton Foundation fundraising, paid speeches and requests for access to former President Bill Clinton dubbed "Bill Clinton Inc." by a top aide -dates back to late 2011, when Chelsea Clinton began to take on a greater role in the family foundation and spearheaded an effort to clean house.

Less than two weeks before Band's exchange with Podesta and Mills, Chelsea Clinton had emailed Podesta, Mills and the attorneys an update on her work to "professionalize" the organization, saying she was to meet with Band soon. She said she'd been receiving "concerns" from people about the "Foundation and/or my father's world" and was encouraging those people to talk to attorneys "candidly." Chelsea said it she also relayed that it was "critical that as we move to professionalize the Foundation for the future that professionalism starts with this process - people continue to share things with me." "I continue to want -- and to try -- to disintermediate myself from this muddle, edify the corporate audit and existential process we are in - while also being a responsible board member, daughter and person," she wrote. She added that one of the shared concerns from an anonymous source was that her "father was told today of explicit examples at CGI of Doug/ Teneo pushing for -- and receiving -- free memberships -- and of multiple examples of Teneo 'hustling' business at CGI -- and of people now having quit at CGI." The tension between Band and Clinton continued for months, with Band forwarding a friendly email from Chelsea to Podesta and Mills in January. "She sends me one of these types of emails every few days/week," Band wrote. "As

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