Clintons personally paid State Department staffer to maintain server

The Washington Post ^ | Rosalind S. Helderman and Carol D. Leonnig

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Pagliano did not list the outside income in the required personal financial disclosures he filed each year. The State Department has said Pagliano concluded his full-time service in February 2013, which coincides with Clinton’s departure as secretary. He remains a State Department contractor doing work on “mobile and remote computing functions,” according to a State Department spokesman.

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A spokeswoman for the Senate Judiciary Committee said that Pagliano informed the committee that he would not testify after his lawyer was told that he might face questions about outside employment.

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By early 2013, as Clinton was preparing to conclude her time as secretary of state, she was looking to upgrade the system’s security and durability, people briefed on the server have said. The system had crashed for days during Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, disrupting her e-mail abilities.

To find a company to take over for Pagliano, the Clintons turned to Tania Neild, a technology broker whose company, InfoGrate, is in Bronxville, N.Y., about 20 miles from their home.

In January 2013, weeks before Clinton’s departure from Foggy Bottom, Neild alerted a small Denver-based technology firm, Platte River Networks, to a possible contract, according to Andy Boian, a spokesman for the tech firm.

Boian said Neild’s notice included no reference to the Clintons and the company submitted a proposal for the work without knowing the identity of the famous potential client.

[Crystal Palace East]

I’ll bet poor little Mr. Pagliano forgot to list his Hillary side payments on his income taxes.

It’s how they got Capone!

[unixfox]

Let’s see his tax papers. Clintons too!

Let's see HIS emails too. You know he was bragging to his friends and family how he managed to get an exclusive contract to work for the Xlintons.

[cpdiii]

You can not hire an underling to do non governmental work for you under government rules. Nor can an underling hire a superior to work for them.

All government employees have this training each and ever year. The point being, Clinton knew she was doing something unethical when she hired him and he knew it was unethical to work for her on non govermental related work.

The laws on this are not vague nor convoluted. They are very plain and explicit. Also, if there is any doubt about outside work, the government has people that will tell you if this is ethical or not. All you have to do is ask. It is their job to help you keep within the ethical guidelines of the government.

Clinton and her server boy, Pagliano, both knew what they did was unethical from the start. This leads to one conclusion only, they both knew that unethical and illegal things would be done by the use of this server.

[Scotswife]

Isn’t it also nice to know that an event like Hurricane Sandy can cause the U.S. Secretary of State to lose email capability.

And apparently the “fix” doesn’t involve people with security clearance.