As Hillary Clinton (finally) made her presidential campaign official yesterday,  here’s a look back at some notable events and headlines about the Clintons on that day:

1994:  Whitewater Documents Released

On April 12, 1994, the Clintons’ partner in the Whitewater investment scandal, James McDougal, released more than 2,000 pages of documents that suggested Hillary Clinton played a more active role in Whitewater’s final years, despite the Clintons describing themselves as just “passive investors” during Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign.

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Despite Hillary Clinton’s claim that “the cure for corruption is openness,” for months, the State Department has been stonewalling congressional and press inquiries into the peculiar arrangement naming top Clinton aide Huma Abedin a “special government employee,” allowing her to work for other entities while remaining at the State Department. Abedin went on to work for Teneo, a consulting firm with deep ties to the Clintons and the family’s foundation, while still working at the State Department, and having access to sensitive information.

Now it turns out, the problem is 100 times bigger. According to ProPublica, Huma Abedin is one of “about 100” special government employees. What’s worse is the tactics the Department is using to try to avoid revealing these individuals’ identities and their private sector clients. After denying a media inquiry and Freedom of Information Act request from ProPublica, which other Departments granted, the State Department only “reopened” the request after it learned ProPublica was going to write about the denial. Yet the Department has continued to stall, delaying its response three separate times.

Earlier this year, Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin drew scrutiny for a special arrangement that allowed her to work part time at the State Department while simultaneously maintaining a side gig working for a corporate consulting firm. …

So who else is a special government employee at the State Department? The department won’t say – even as eight other federal agencies readily sent us lists of their own special government employees.

A State Department spokeswoman did confirm that there are “about 100” such employees. But asked for a list, she added that, “As general policy, [the department] does not disclose employee information of this nature.”

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The New York Post and Breitbart report that among the hosts of Hillary Clinton’s Monday night fundraiser for New York City mayoral candidate Bill De Blasio were controversial supporters of her past campaigns, including a convicted felon and an international businessman who faced millions in tax liens. Host Paul Adler, a backer of her 2000 Senate campaign, later pled guilty to federal corruption charges and tax evasion and sentenced to 19 months in prison. Adler was the subject of a federal probe of a votes-for-clemency scheme to help Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign in exchange for presidential pardons. Another host, Sant Singh Chatlwal, whose controversies are detailed after the jump, raised thousands for Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign while fighting tax liens and bankruptcy from two national governments:

A former Hillary Rodham Clinton ally who served time for felony fraud and federal corruption is among those leading the charge to put Bill de Blasio into City Hall, The Post has learned.

Former Rockland County Democratic Chairman Paul Adler — who was also eyed in the Bill Clinton clemency-for-votes probe in New Square a decade ago — was among nine co-chairs at de Blasio’s million-dollar fund-raiser in Midtown on Monday. …

Adler, like de Blasio, had been a close advisor to Clinton’s 2000 senate campaign in New York and had even hosted her at his home.

Now a Vice President at Rand Commercial Services, Adler was sentenced to 19 months in prison in 2002 after pleading guilty to federal corruption charges — including accepting bribes from developers and attempting to influence members of a local zoning board. He also pleaded guilty to tax evasion for not reporting $150,000 worth of income.

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The New York Post reports that months after a “bombshell memo” outlining Clinton State Department employees engaging in sex scandals leaked, “most of the cases have been ignored or swept under the rug”:

Months after whistleblowers accused the State Department of covering up employee sex scandals, most of the cases have been ignored or swept under the rug, critics charge.

Records show that staffers were given cushy jobs or allowed to retire, and watchdogs say the feds have hardly bothered to investigate since the shenanigans came to light this past summer. …

The bombshell memo detailed accusations that former Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman and members of Clinton’s security detail hired prostitutes, but were given little more than wrist-slaps.

The Post also revealed allegations that former Naples Consul General Donald Moore romped with call girls and had torrid affairs with Italian employees.

But the alleged dalliances seem to have not hurt Moore’s career.

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Politico’s Maggie Haberman reports that Hillary Clinton is set to fundraise for Terry McAuliffe amidst two federal investigations targeting the companies of McAuliffe and her brother Anthony Rodham. One of the investigations centers around improper influence peddling by Anthony Rodham while she was Secretary of State. This will be her first purely political appearance since resigning as Secretary of State.

It appears that the scandal-plagued McAuliffe/Clinton relationship will continue unbowed by this round of investigations.