Hillary Clinton Paid by Jeb Bush’s Education Company

It's all so cozy: a company partially owned by Jeb Bush paid Hillary Clinton $225,500 for a speech last year.

PHILADELPHIA, PA -  SEPTEMBER 10:  Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, listen as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks before the presentation of the 2013 Liberty Medal September 10, 2013 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Liberty Medal was established in 1988 to commemorate the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. Given annually, the medal aims to recognize leadership in the pursuit of freedom.  (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images)

(This post is from our new blog: Unofficial Sources.)

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton received nearly a quarter of a million dollars last year for a speaking engagement on behalf of Academic Partnerships, a for-profit education company in which Jeb Bush held an ownership stake and on whose board he served.

Clinton’s newly filed personal financial disclosure shows that she was paid $225,500 on March 24, 2014 by Academic Partnerships. At the invitation-only event in Dallas, Texas, Clinton reportedly said, “today a student doesn’t need to travel to Cambridge, Mass., or Cambridge, England, to get a world-class education.”

Academic Partnerships assists universities in converting their academic degree programs into online versions that can be taken by students around the world.

In 2011, Bush joined Academic Partnerships as an investor and as a paid advisor. He helped the company host multiple conferences and has appeared in online videos encouraging others to consider the Academic Partnership business model. Though he did not share the stage with Clinton, Bush spoke at the same conference.

Preparing for an expected bid for the Republican nomination for president, Bush resigned from Academic Partnerships in December.

Photo: William Thomas Cain/Getty

 

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