Emails Show Huma Abedin's Ties To Private Consulting Firm
By RACHAEL BADE 09/23/15, 01:01 PM EDT Updated 09/23/15, 05:49 PM EDT
A spring 2012 email to Hillary Clinton’s top State Department aide, Huma Abedin, asked for help winning a presidential appointment for a supporter of the Clinton Foundation, according to a chain obtained by POLITICO.
The messages illustrate the relationship between Clinton's most trusted confidant and the private consulting company that asked for the favor, Teneo — a global firm that later hired Abedin. Abedin signed on with the company while she still held a State Department position, a dual employment that is now being examined by congressional investigators.
Abedin's status as a “special government employee” has been questioned by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who has raised concerns about any overlapping duties and whether they posed potential conflicts of interest. Abedin also worked as an adviser to the Clinton Foundation, the private charity founded by former President Bill Clinton.
Abedin’s legal team maintains that the part-time jobs were appropriate and approved by Abedin's supervisors at State and that she did nothing wrong. Indeed, in the email request obtained by POLITICO, there is no evidence that Abedin interceded on behalf of Teneo as it sought a new appointment for Judith Rodin, a Teneo client and president of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Rodin, a former White House appointee to the White House Council for Community Solutions, did not get the appointment Teneo was seeking. The Foundation paid Teneo $5.7 million in 2012 to do public relations work, but no longer works with the firm.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/huma-abedin-teneo-clinton-foundation-email-213965#ixzz3mbesxtXZ
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