Cheryl Mills/Clintons vs Johnnie/McDonnells
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Date: October 12, 2015 07:13PM
See, Hillary pays her State Department Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills $177,000 a year as a government employee while she is also working as a lobbyist for NYU (for $528,000 in salary and vacation reimbursements) to open a campus in Abu Dhabi. In return, NYU gets speeches and visits from both Clintons.
In addition to her payments from NYU, she collected $60,000 from Clinton-related political action committees.
"For Mills, part of the quandary, she said, was that she loved her work for NYU."
"Both during and after the period of Mills’s dual employment, she seemed to function as a conduit between NYU and her State Department boss.
After Clinton spoke at an NYU graduation ceremony in New York in May 2009, a top university official e-mailed Mills to thank her for her “help and guidance” in getting Clinton to the event, according to correspondence recently released by the State Department.
In 2011, Mills forwarded to Clinton an e-mail she had received from a university official describing a new NYU campus planned for Shanghai."
"In May 2014, the school held its first graduation in Abu Dhabi, and Bill Clinton delivered the commencement address."
"Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Clinton, declined to comment."
Conclusion: If McDonnell had only put Johnnie on the payroll he would have avoided all his troubles.
Assuming, of course, that "the Clintons did it" holds up in court as a mitigating excuse.