University at Buffalo paid Hillary Clinton $275,000 for Speech
Just recently, we reported that the school refused to divulge the amount of Clinton’s fee. Now Philip Rucker of the Washington Post reports.
University at Buffalo paid $275,000 for Hillary Clinton speech
When Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed to address the University at Buffalo, the largest campus of the State University of New York system, she negotiated a few requirements in addition to her pay of $275,000.
The potential 2016 presidential candidate’s agent requested that the university provide “a presidential glass panel teleprompter and a qualified operator,” that Clinton’s office have “final approval” of her introducer and the moderator of any question-and-answer session, as well as “the sets, backdrops, banners, scenery, logos, settings, etc,” and that the topic and length of the former secretary of state’s speech would be at her “sole discretion.”
These requirements are spelled out in a nine-page contract between the University at Buffalo and Clinton’s representatives at the Harry Walker Agency. The contract was obtained through the freedom of information law by the Public Accountability Initiative, a non-profit research and educational group.
The contract reveals for the first time many of the details surrounding Clinton’s lucrative career on the paid speaking circuit. Since stepping down from the State Department in early 2013, Clinton has addressed scores of audiences, many of them trade conventions, Wall Street banks and other industry groups.
University at Buffalo paid $275,000 for Hillary Clinton speech (The Washington Post)
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