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While at State, Clinton chief of staff held job negotiating with Abu Dhabi
For the four years that Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of state, her longtime friend and adviser Cheryl D. Mills served next to her as chief of staff. Clinton has said Mills helped her run the State Departments sprawling bureaucracy; oversaw key priorities such as food safety, global health policy and LGBT rights; and acted as my principal liaison to the White House on sensitive matters.
During her first four months at the State Department, Mills also held another high-profile job: She worked part time at New York University, negotiating with officials in Abu Dhabi to build a campus in that Persian Gulf city.
At the State Department, she was unpaid in those first months, officially designated as a temporary expert-consultant a status that allowed her to continue to collect outside income while serving as chief of staff. She reported that NYU paid her $198,000 in 2009, when her university work overlapped with her time at the State Department, and that she collected an additional $330,000 in vacation and severance payments when she left the schools payroll in May 2009.
The arrangement, which Mills discussed publicly for the first time in an interview with The Washington Post, is another example of how Clinton as secretary allowed close aides to conduct their public work even as they performed jobs benefiting private interests. Another key Clinton aide, Huma Abedin, spent her last six months as Clintons deputy chief of staff in 2012 simultaneously employed by the Clinton Foundation, the familys global charity, and a consulting company with close Clinton connections. Similarly, Mills remained on the Clinton Foundations unpaid board for a short time after joining the State Department.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/while-at-state-clinton-chief-of-staff-held-job-negotiating-with-abu-dhabi/2015/10/12/e847b3be-6863-11e5-8325-a42b5a459b1e_story.html
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WP: While at State, Clinton chief of staff held job negotiating with Abu Dhabi (Original Post)
amborin
Mar 2016
OP
NYU paid her $198,000 in 2009... an additional $330,000...when she left in May 2009
progressoid
Mar 2016
#3
Wilms
(26,795 posts)1. Mills has some 'splanin' to do. n/t
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)2. Mills seems to have a few problems on the horizon
progressoid
(49,964 posts)3. NYU paid her $198,000 in 2009... an additional $330,000...when she left in May 2009
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