Ken Berwitz
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greenlighted paperwork thatchanged her top aide Huma Abedin\’s job status to “special government employee” – a classification that allowed Abedin to work for an outside consulting firmand the Clinton Foundation at the same time she was advising Clinton at State.
According to documents obtained by conservative groupJudicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, Clinton was theimmediate supervisor who approved the title change that came with the new poston March 23, 2012, permitting her then-deputy chief of staff to work severaljobs at once.
POLITICO reported Wednesdaythat the president of the outside company where Abedin ended up working laterthat year, Doug Band of Teneo, had contacted her in April 2012, asking her forhelp getting a client appointed to a post on the President’s Global DevelopmentCouncil.
In the email, he madesure Abedin knew that the woman, Judith Rodin, president of The RockefellerFoundation, was also a big supporter of the Clinton Foundation – another placeAbedin would collect a paycheck after her SGE status was approved.
Clinton, in aninterview with MSNBC on Sept. 4, said she “was not directly involved”with Abedin\’s job arrangement.
