A large cache of emails in the FBI's possession that are related to Hillary Clinton's time in the Obama administration still haven't found their way from the FBI to the State Department.

A Justice Department lawyer told a federal court on Tuesday that investigators are still holding on to the messages it retrieved from a laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of Clinton confidante Human Abedin.

The FBI could give State the emails in the future, but attorneys haven't said when.

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State Department emails on a computer shared by longtime Hillary Clinton confidante Huma Abedin (pictured) and her estranged husband, disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, are still with the FBI and there's no schedule for handing them to State for review and public release

Clinton likely benefited from the lack of full disclosure but her presidential prospects dimmed after 650,000 emails were found on the laptop less than two weeks before the election

'We haven't recovered anything from the FBI,' Justice Department lawyer Lisa Olson told judge James Boasberg, according to The Washington Times.

Boasberg noted that since Clinton went down to defeat in the Nov. 8 presidential election, interest in her classified email scandal has dropped off.

Tuesday's hearing drew just a handful of journalists. A month ago, similar events in the same case packed the courtroom.

'What a shock that we have less interest today than in past hearings,' Boasberg said as he looked around, the Times noted.

The FBI's failure to release the Weiner laptop emails to the State Department or the public frustrated Republican partisans in the weeks preceding the election.

The bureau obtained the laptop from the New York City police department,– which a government source said Monday already had possession of it – after DailyMail.com reported that Weiner, a former Democratic congressman, had been carrying on a lurid sexting relationship with a 15-year-old girl.

Weiner resigned from Congress and is losing his marriage as a result of his habit of sexting and exchanging lurid photos of himself with women other than his wife

The computer, which Abedin shared with her disgraced husband, reportedly contained 650,000 messages, including both personal emails and those related to the State Department, where Abedin served as Clinton's deputy chief of staff.

The bombshell revelation fueled Donald Trump's final week of campaign rallies and helped him drive home accusations of corruption against Clinton.

Olson told the judge on Tuesday that some of the files are duplicates of what the State Department has already made public.

State already has a backlog of messages to process, sending each one through a group of intelligence agencies to determine if it contains classified information.

More than 2,000 such messages have been flagged as classified. All of them once resided on an unsecured, home-brew email server that Clinton had installed in her basement.

Clinton told Congress and the FBI that her lawyers had already turned over all her work-related emails in late 2014.

Weiner's laptop could provide new evidence that she wasn't telling the whole truth.