Her conflicts of interest were so severe that even Senator Manchin voted to block her nomination as deputy secretary of the interior. As deputy director of the New York University School of Law's State Energy and Environmental Impact Center, Klein placed and paid the salaries of legal fellows in state attorneys general's offices to advance Michael Bloomberg's radical environmental agenda. The use of private money to conduct public business is ethically flawed, and Indiana's attorney general categorized Miss Klein's program as a, quote, arrangement through which a private organization or … (15:35–15:57)
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Asserts that Elizabeth Klein paid salaries of legal fellows to advance Michael Bloomberg's agenda.
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