Pompeo's wife emailed State Department staff for help with personal Christmas cards, source says
Source: CNN
Pompeo's wife emailed State Department staff for help with personal Christmas cards, source says
By Mike Conte, Kylie Atwood and Paul LeBlanc, CNN
Updated 7:16 AM ET, Tue September 15, 2020
Susan Pompeo asks State Department for help sending personal cards
(CNN) -- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's wife asked State Department staff to help send personal family Christmas cards, according to an email exchange obtained by the State Department Office of Inspector General as part of an investigation into potential misuse of taxpayer resources, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN.
The request from Susan Pompeo, which was first reported by McClatchy, was sent to State Department aide Toni Porter, who testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee last month that she had assisted with personal Christmas cards and felt uncomfortable with the task. Porter said she did not tell anyone at State about the instance.
That testimony came as part of a probe from congressional Democrats into the ouster of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick at Pompeo's behest in May.
As part of that probe, Linick testified in early June that his office was looking into five matters of potential wrongdoing at the State Department, including potential misuse of taxpayer resources. Pompeo has repeatedly denied that Linick's ouster was retaliatory and rebuked Democratic lawmakers, including House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel of New York, over the probe.
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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/politics/susan-pompeo-christmas-cards/index.html
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Mike Pompeo's wife asked State Department staff to help send personal family Christmas cards, according to emails obtained by the department inspector general as part of an investigation into potential misuse of taxpayer resources, a source familiar says.
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