Newly declassified Justice Department documents suggest senior Obama-era officials told the FBI to halt public-corruption inquiries into the Clinton Foundation during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to materials obtained by investigative reporter John Solomon and detailed in conservative media outlets. Among the files is a 2016 memorandum in which then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates allegedly wrote “Shut it down,” while emails from then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe instructed agents in New York, Little Rock and Washington not to take overt steps without headquarters approval. The three field offices had opened parallel cases examining whether donors received favorable treatment from the State Department while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state. The probes were never fully activated and were eventually closed, the records indicate. Donations to the Clinton Foundation, which reached hundreds of millions of dollars during Clinton’s tenure, reportedly fell sharply after her 2016 election defeat. The foundation has previously denied any pay-for-play arrangement. Former President Donald Trump said the newly released files offer “absolute proof” that former intelligence chiefs James Comey and James Clapper conspired to undermine his campaign. Yates, Comey and the Clinton Foundation have not publicly commented on the disclosures.