[ConservativeMind]

I hate to say it, but this is the legal code that covers our Treasury Secretary NOT being paid by the US:

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/22/286a.html

Straight from Cornell Law School archives.

[Hawthorn]

>> this is the legal code that covers our Treasury Secretary NOT being paid by the US <<

It’s nothing of the kind. Read it and you’ll see.

Period. Full stop. End of story.

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No person shall be entitled to receive any salary or other compensation from the United States for services as a Governor, executive director, councillor, alternate, or associate.

Key phrase, "for services as a Governor ..."

Presumably Geithner gets money from the US for what he does with the rest of his time.

Or do you think he gets nothing from Uncle Sam for holding such a high office?