Close Hillary Clinton aide, State Dept. inspector general in pay dispute
A close aide of Hillary Clinton is disputing she was overpaid almost $10,000 when she left the State Department and is asking its inspector general to reassess its findings, her lawyers told CNN. Huma Abedin, who served for four years as deputy chief of staff for the State Department and is now a top official of her presidential campaign, was wrongly paid $9.857.73 for unused leave time, according to an audit of the inspector general. Abedin's lawyers were informed of the findings in May, but the controversy only became public on Friday after the Senate Judiciary chairman, Sen. Charles Grassley, referenced the pay dispute in letters to several officials. Read More
