- Sat Aug 01, 2015 8:40 am
#61326
The only surprising thing about the corruption of the ruling class is the pettiness of so much of it, the bitch is given a token full time over paid government job while she holds down two other high paid jobs and she lies about her vacation days. The hardest working woman" in the world, had three employers at once. So how much work could she be doing for State? And her lawyers saying she did work while on her vacations so they really weren't vacation, just doesn't cut it. A perfect understudy for Hillary.
Top Clinton aide accused of receiving overpayments at State Department. State Department investigators concluded this year that Huma Abedin, one of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s closest aides, was overpaid because of violations of rules governing vacation and sick leave during her tenure as an official in the department. In letters sent Thursday to Abedin, Kerry and the Office of Inspector General, the inspector general had found “at least a reasonable suspicion of a violation” of the law concerning the “theft of public money through time and attendance fraud” as well as “conflicts of interest connected to her overlapping employment.”A prime example of why I say we have far to many government employees, what we need are government workers who are actually needed. The fact that one of our top paid government workers was working two other full time jobs at the same time and even get paid by the government while she vacations in Italy proves my point.
Abedin’s time sheets indicated that she never took vacation or sick leave during her four years at the State Department, from January 2009 to February 2013. But the investigation found evidence that Abedin did take time off on several occassions, including a 10-day trip to Italy, and that she told colleagues in e-mails that she was out “on leave.”
The finding — which Abedin has formally contested — emerged publicly Friday after Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) sent letters to Secretary of State John F. Kerry and others seeking more information about an investigation into possible “criminal” conduct by Abedin concerning her pay.
The letters also sought the status of an inquiry into whether Abedin had violated conflict-of-interest laws related to her special employment situation, which allowed her to work simultaneously for the State Department, the Clinton Foundation and a private firm with close ties to the Clintons.
The finding that Abedin, a longtime Clinton confidante who now serves as vice chairwoman of her presidential campaign, had improperly collected taxpayer money could prove damaging to Clinton’s candidacy, as Republicans charge that government rules were routinely bent to benefit Clinton and her aides.
Her attorneys say the conclusion that Abedin was overpaid relied on a finding that she had done no work while on the Italy trip and other times she out of office. “Huma Abedin is widely known as one of the hardest-working people in all of Washington during the nearly two decades she was in public service,” said Karen Dunn, an attorney for Abedin.
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