Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton’s former chief of staff while she was secretary of state, held her job with the State Department as she negotiated with Abu Dhabi officials for New York University, The Washington Post reported Monday.
Mills held both jobs for fourth months and worked with the officials to build a NYU campus there, according to the Post.
While the jobs overlapped, Mills was unpaid at the State department, serving as what the Post called “temporary expert-consultant” and worked part-time at NYU. She earned $198,000 from the university in 2009 and an additional $330,000 when she left the job later that year, according to the publication.
“Mills’s situation raises questions about how one of the State Department’s top employees set boundaries between her public role and a private job that involved work on a project funded by a foreign government. The arrangement appears to fall within federal ethics rules, but Republican lawmakers have accused Clinton of allowing potential conflicts of interest at the State Department,” the Post wrote.
Mills denied to the Post that there was any conflict in the position.
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More selectively-edited leaks from Gowdy?
Is this Gowdy’s comeback from the cease and desist order he and his committee received today?
Besides, didn’t your boy DeMint work for the Heritage Foundation while serving in the Senate and then he landed at the head of it when he prematurely left his seat?
“The arrangement appears to fall within federal ethics rules”. So, what’s the issue then? As always with the Clintons, it’s appearance regardless of substance.
“The arrangement appears to fall within federal ethics rules, but
Republican lawmakers have accused Clinton of allowing potential
conflicts of interest at the State Department,” the Post wrote."
So either TPM utterly failed to read the first part of the above quote which makes this a non-story again about Clinton or the reporter is just doing their daily shilling for the GOP, hyping up something against Clinton when there is nothing there by spreading the story. What a classic example of lazy journalism, TPM! Apparently Ms. Jerde has joined the ranks of the GOP shills. Disgusting and so lazy. TPM has rapidly lost what little decency it had.
And hyping by lazy TPM reporters.