Clinton Foundation hires Wall Street executive

Published October 29, 2015 3:53pm ET



One day after Hillary Clinton vowed to go after banking executives who lead their firms into financial trouble, her family’s foundation hired an executive who escaped a struggling bank to work in the Obama administration.

The Clinton Foundation announced Wednesday it had hired Kevin Thurm as its executive vice president. Thurm served as a Citigroup executive for more than a decade, working his way up to become the bank’s chief compliance officer before departing for the Department of Health and Human Services last year.

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