UB paid Hillary Clinton $275,000 for speech last fall [View all]

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The University at Buffalo paid former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton $275,000 for her speech at Alumni Arena last fall, according to a copy of her speaking agency’s contract with the university, which was released today.

The nine-page contract stipulates that the “net honorarium” for the speech would go to the Clinton Foundation, which Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, founded after leaving the White House. But an unspecified sum would have gone to the Harry Walker Agency, which arranges the former secretary of state’s speaking arrangements.

No state or tuition funds were used to pay Clinton’s speaking fee, the university said in a statement. Instead, the UB Foundation paid for the speech as part of its annual Distinguished Speakers Series.

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The contract, which provides the most inside detail to date about Clinton’s lucrative speaking engagements, also shows that Clinton exerted a great deal of control over the details of the sold-out event at UB last Oct. 23.

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The contract, which provides the most inside detail to date about Clinton’s lucrative speaking engagements, also shows that Clinton exerted a great deal of control over the details of the sold-out event at UB last Oct. 23.