Former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton was paid $300,000 to speak to students and faculty at the University of California at Los Angeles in March, UCLA said Friday. Spokesman Jean-Paul Renaud said Clinton’s fee was paid through a private endowment for a lecture series by Meyer Luskin, an investor and president of Scope Industries.
In 2012, former president Bill Clinton was paid $250,000 to deliver the inaugural address in the Luskin lecture series, Renaud said.
In both instances, Renaud said, fees went to the Clintons’ charitable group, now called the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
News of Hillary Clinton’s UCLA payment, reported Friday by the Wall Street Journal, comes amid growing scrutiny of Clinton’s personal wealth and speaking fees.
Clinton is to be paid $225,000 to speak at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Her office said she is directing funds to the Clinton Foundation. Jon Ralston, a television journalist in Nevada, called her fee “grotesque” and “obscene.”
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