A lawsuit over Hillary Clinton's private emails could bridge separate inquiries into her personal server use and the work of her family's foundation.

Emails made public Monday through the Freedom of Information Act raised a fresh round of questions about the Clinton Foundation after several of the records indicated donors had sought access to Clinton through the charity's staff.

In another potential blow to the Clinton campaign, a federal judge ruled Monday that the State Department must fast-track its review of the roughly 14,900 emails recovered by the FBI from Clinton's private server.

The revelations undermine two pillars of Clinton's public defense against allegations of corruption: that she surrendered all of her work-related emails, and that she wholly avoided interaction with the Clinton Foundation while serving as the nation's chief diplomat.

What's more, the latest developments have begun to merge parallel controversies that unfolded individually over the course of Clinton's campaign.

"There is absolutely no connection between anything that I did as secretary of state and the Clinton Foundation," the Democratic nominee said in late July.

But emails made public in the weeks since have painted a different picture.

Records show Clinton's aides labored to find a State Department job for an unnamed individual at the behest of a Clinton Foundation employee. Clinton's top aides were instructed to provide a Lebanese-born foundation donor with immediate access to the senior State Department official on policy in Lebanon.

The prince of Bahrain sought an audience with Clinton through charity staff after his attempts to secure a meeting through "normal channels" were rebuffed.

Another Clinton donor told Huma Abedin, one of Clinton's closest staffers, "it goes without saying" that her outreach on behalf of a client was based on "relationships to the Clinton's."

Records obtained through a separate FOIA lawsuit filed by Citizens United detail further the connections between the foundation and Clinton's State Department.

A set of call logs kept by Cheryl Mills, Clinton's former chief of staff, showed the frequency with which Clinton Foundation staff contacted Mills at the State Department.

For example, the chief operating officer of the foundation left 148 messages for Mills in a two-year time frame.

One message left for Mills by the charity's COO, referred to Clinton as "our boss."

A substantial portion of the thousands of emails set for State Department review could remain hidden until after the election, complicating Republicans' efforts to turn the controversy into a flashpoint on the campaign trail.

However, the same FOIA lawsuit that will compel the administration to produce Clinton's deleted emails could also provide one of the last remaining avenues to hammer the Democratic nominee on her public representation of the private server system.

Judicial Watch, the conservative-leaning group who filed the suit, won the right on Friday to serve Clinton with a set of written questions about her knowledge of the email network. Clinton's answers, which she must provide to the group within 30 days of receiving the questionnaire, will be considered sworn testimony by a federal court.

Although Clinton has, as her allies are quick to note, spoken about the emails in testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi last year and during an FBI interview in early July, much of the publicly-available evidence does not complement her statements.

For example, Clinton told the FBI that she decided to use a personal server after former Secretary Colin Powell advised her to do so at a dinner party.

Powell said he had no recollection of the exchange.