Huma Mahmood Abedin is an American political staffer who was vice chair of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign for President of the United States.
30 Facts About Huma Abedin
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Huma Abedin was the traveling chief of staff and former assistant to Clinton during her 2008 presidential campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election.
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Huma Abedin was born on July 28,1975, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to two professors.
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When Huma Abedin was two years old, her parents were offered jobs at the University of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.
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Huma Abedin moved with her family to Jeddah where she was raised and lived until returning to the United States for college.
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Huma Abedin traveled frequently during her childhood and teenage years, and attended a British girls' school.
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Huma Abedin's father died from progressive renal failure when she was 17.
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Huma Abedin officially took over as Clinton's aide and personal advisor during Clinton's successful 2000 US Senate campaign in New York and later worked as traveling chief of staff and "body woman" during Clinton's unsuccessful campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
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In 2009, Huma Abedin was appointed deputy chief of staff to Clinton in the State Department.
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Huma Abedin failed to disclose her consulting work done while a State Department aide.
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The New York Times reported that an associate of Huma Abedin's said the arrangement allowed her to work from her home in New York City rather than at the State Department's headquarters in Washington to be able to spend more time with her child and husband.
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Eleven days before leaving the State Department, Huma Abedin set up a private consulting firm, Zain Endeavors LLC.
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Huma Abedin appeared on the podcast, The Literary City with Ramjee Chandran, to discuss her memoir.
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Huma Abedin says the title of the book best describes the plurality she feels in her daily life and her career.
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The State Department and Huma Abedin both responded, with the State Department indicating that it uses special government employees routinely "to provide services and expertise that executive agencies require", and Huma Abedin stating that she did not provide any government information or inside information gained from her State Department job to her private employers.
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In July 2015, Grassley released information indicating that the State Department's inspector general had found that Huma Abedin was overpaid by almost $10,000 for unused leave time when she left the government, resulting from violations of the rules governing vacation and sick leave during her tenure on the payroll as a Federal employee in the department.
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In 2015, emails by Huma Abedin became part of the FBI investigation and controversy concerning Hillary Clinton's private email account while she was Secretary of State, resulting in various allegations by Republicans of violations of State Department regulations.
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Some officials within the intelligence community have stated that potentially classified information was contained in e-mails from Huma Abedin relating to the 2012 Benghazi attack and its aftermath, which had been sent through Clinton's private, non-government server.
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On October 16,2015, Abedin testified in closed session before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, in a session that was expected to focus on the 2012 Benghazi attack during which Ambassador J Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed.
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The Republican-led committee's top Democratic representative, Elijah Cummings of Maryland, questioned the panel's decision to hear testimony from Huma Abedin, arguing that her knowledge of details at the time of the attacks was minimal.
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Huma Abedin was a senior official at the State Department at all of the relevant times.
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Huma Abedin cooperated with the investigation, according to Justice Department and FBI officials.
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On October 30,2016, the FBI obtained a search warrant for the Huma Abedin-linked emails found on Weiner's laptop.
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Huma Abedin used the same laptop to send thousands of emails to Clinton, according to NBC sources.
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Huma Abedin started dating then-US Representative Anthony Weiner in 2007, and they were engaged in 2009.
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In early 2017, Huma Abedin announced her intent to file for divorce with sole physical custody of their son.
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Huma Abedin said she has started dating again and feels excited about the process.
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In July 2022 it was reported that Huma Abedin was in a relationship with actor Bradley Cooper.
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Huma Abedin is featured in Weiner, a documentary about her former husband's unsuccessful 2013 campaign for Mayor of New York.
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Huma Abedin will be an executive producer of the program along with Emily Verellen.