Posted on 05/16/2013 9:46:34 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
The State Department, under Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, created an arrangement for her longtime aide and confidante Huma Abedin to work for private clients as a consultant while serving as a top adviser in the department.
Ms. Abedin did not disclose the arrangement — or how much income she earned — on her financial report. It requires officials to make public any significant sources of income.
The disclosure of the agreement that Ms. Abedin made with the State Department comes as her husband, former Representative Anthony D. Weiner, a Democrat, prepares for a mayoral run in New York City. Politico reported the arrangement on Thursday afternoon.
Ms. Abedin declined a request for an interview, but the picture that emerges from interviews and records suggests a situation where the lines were blurred between Ms. Abedin’s work in the high echelons of one of the government’s most sensitive executive departments and her role as a Clinton family insider.
While continuing her work at the State Department, in the latter half of 2012, she also worked for Teneo, a strategic consulting firm, which was founded by Doug Band, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton. Teneo has advised corporate clients like Coca-Cola and MF Global, the collapsed brokerage firm run by Jon S. Corzine, a former governor of New Jersey.
At the same time, Ms. Abedin served as a consultant to the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation and worked in a personal capacity for Mrs. Clinton as she prepared to transition out of her job as secretary of state.
It is not clear what role Mrs. Clinton played in approving the arrangement. Some good-government groups have been critical of such situations, saying public employees’ loyalty should be solely to the public and their government work, rather than private firms and figures.
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Is the house of cards beginning to collapse? How long has the NY Times sat on this information?
Gasp..... say it aint so.
I’ve just noticed something. Shouldn’t this woman be called Huma Weiner?I know liberals think taking their husband’s names is “supporting evil patriarchy”, but she is a Muslim.
Not often the NY Times will slam Hilarious. This looks really bad as in highly illegal for a government employee to be moonlighting.
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Politico broke the story yesterday or else the NY Times would have never mentioned it today.
This is a new low, even for Pinch.
Weiner’s Wife:
Huma Abedin & Hillary Clinton - Who is Funding Huma Abedin’s Lifestyle?
FREE REPUBLIC WORLD EXCLUSIVE | November 6, 2007
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1921983/posts
Another reminder that rules apply only to the little people.
BTW, it says that Huma did not disclose this work. Did she list it on her tax returns?
Only the little people - and tea-party types - must pay taxes...
Prolly because the Muslim Brotherhood doesn’t have a “Payer’s Federal Identification #”
For some reason it never dawned on me why she didn’t take her husband’s last name. I just put it together. Huma Weiner would just make people smirk whenever she was introduced.
IRS AUDIT!!
All Muslims lie.
The Law does not apply to Moslems.
And they LIE like their Dear Leader. LIE LIE LIE LIE
"Our clients have paid.
They are WAITING for your 'green light'."
Oh, OK then.
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