The Huma Files: Feds investigated top Hillary Clinton aide for embezzlementBlames husband Weiner for failing to notice extra $30K payment
Exclusive Washington Times Daily Briefing (September 09, 2015)
Federal investigators formally investigated top Hillary Rodham Clinton aide Huma Abedin for the crime of embezzlement after confirming she took a "Babymoon" vacation and maternity time at the State Department without expending her formal leave, resulting in
thousands of dollars of pay she wasn't entitled to receive.
The Washington Times has learned. The probe also gathered evidence
she filed time sheets charging the government for impermissible overtime and excessive hours after she converted from a full-time federal employee to a State Department contractor. Those timecards were filed during a period that remains under investigation over questions about possible conflicts of interest, documents gathered by the State Department inspector general show. Ms. Abedin, who served as a deputy chief of staff to Mrs. Clinton from 2009 to late 2012,
told investigators she hadn't noticed she had received a $33,000 lump sum payment about a third of which investigators determined was improper when she left the State Department. She suggested her husband, the
disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, failed to let her know. "My husband handles all the finances in our household," she told investigators during a recorded interview in October 2014. She also acknowledged it was likely she did not fill out the required form when she went on a two-week vacation to Europe in 2011 while she was pregnant, a trip she called a "Babymoon" in emails and her interview.
The failure to file the form resulted in her having excessive vacation time cashed out to her in the lump payment upon leaving government, investigators concluded. The State Department's inspector general formally concluded that Ms. Abedin failed to correctly submit multiple required time sheet and leave forms covering her vacation and maternity leave, resulting in an over-payment of $10,674.32 that she wasn't entitled to receive when she left her job.
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