The FBI gave partial immunity to Hillary Clinton’s former State Department chief of staff Cheryl Mills and two other staffers during the investigation of Clinton’s private e-mail server, according to a member of Congress.

House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, who has been looking into the Clinton’s e-mail practices, said federal investigators were given access to Mills’ computer but only on the condition that the findings could not used against her.

“No wonder they couldn’t prosecute a case. They were handing out immunity deals like candy,” Chaffetz said.

He said the others granted immunity were John Bentel, then-director of the State Department’s Office of Information Resources Management, and Clinton aide Heather Samuelson.

A lawyer for Mills and Samuelson, Beth Wilkinson, said she requested the immunity grants because of inter-agency disputes about whether some information in Clinton’s emails was classified.

“As the government indicated in these letters, the DOJ and FBI considered my clients to be witnesses and nothing more. Indeed, the Justice Department assured us that they believed my clients did nothing wrong. At all points my clients cooperated with the government’s investigation, including voluntarily participating in interviews with the FBI and DOJ,” Wilkinson said in a statement to Politico.

Two other people were previously identified as receiving immunity deals.

FBI Director James Comey said in July that the agency determined Clinton was “extremely careless” in handling classified information, but recommended against bringing charges against her.

The Trump campaign responded by calling the immunity claim evidence of “a criminal scheme.”

“What has become abundantly clear is that the Obama Administration is protecting Hillary Clinton from accountability at all costs because she will keep the rigged system in Washington in place. In light of this development, Hillary Clinton must immediately come forward and promise the American people that none of these individuals will ever serve in any capacity in her administration,” said Trump spokesman Jason Miller in a statement.

Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon charged the release of the news was timed to Monday’s presidential debate.

“Three days before debate, House GOP selectively leaks details from inquiry that was closed months ago w/no charges,” Fallon tweeted.

But Chaffetz said he disclosed the immunity deal Friday because that’s when he first learned of it from the FBI.

With Post wires

