The arrest of a wealthy financier accused of fraud might be just the sort of government action that would cheer a crusader against the monied class, as Hillary Clinton sometimes characterizes herself.

But when the target was a top Democratic Party fundraiser in August 2009, it provoked condolences from one Clinton’s top supporters.

“Huma — very too bad about Hassan Nemazee.”

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New York banking executive Ken Miller commented on the arrest of Hassan Nemazee the following month in an email to longtime Clinton confidante Huma Abedin.

“Huma — very too bad about Hassan Nemazee,” wrote Miller, then president and CEO of Ken Miller Capital.

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The email was included in a batch of communications that the State Department turned over to the conservative advocacy group Citizens United as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

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Miller’s main area of concern appeared to be the U.S. pavilion at the upcoming Shanghai Expo. There are numerous emails between Miller and Abedin about the event.

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Abedin, who was Clinton’s deputy chief of staff during her tenure as secretary of state, does not appear to have commented on Miller’s Nemazee lament. But Nemazee had deep ties to the Clintons. He had served as her national finance chairman during her failed bid for the White House in 2008 and shifted his focus to Barack Obama after he won the Democratic nomination. He also helped the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee raise $119 million for the 2006 cycle — significantly more than the Democrats managed alone.

The criminal case against Nemazee, an Iranian-American who owned a holding company with investments in private and public companies, involved allegations that he committed fraud to get a loan from Citibank. Prosecutors alleged that he forged documents showing that he held accounts and collateral worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Those accounts either never existed or had long been closed, according to the criminal complaint.

Authorities also contended that Nemazee gave Citibank phone numbers and addresses of various financial institutions that could vouch for his finances. But he actually controlled those numbers, according to the allegations.

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Nemazee ended up pleading guilty in 2010 to a $292-million fraud, and a federal judge sentenced him to 12.5 years in prison.

Even before his run-in with the law, his questionable business dealings scuttled an attempt by President Bill Clinton to name him U.S. ambassador to Argentina.

As for the Expo in 2010, the United States was the last country to agree to participate and the only one that relied exclusively on private donations to pay for it. Miller, who currently is a Clinton adviser on Asia policy and is a senior adviser at Teneo Holdings — the consulting company founded by former Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band — helped raise money.

Reception to the pavilion was mixed. News reports indicated that many Chinese visitors liked it, but Duke University business professor Liu Kang, then acting as dean of the Institute of Arts and Humanities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, called it the “most disappointing” pavilion at the Expo.

Clinton also seemed underwhelmed by the results.

“It’s fine,” she told The New York Times.