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50. Gordon Giffin - Ex-ambassador to Canada reaps high corporate compensation

Thu Jan 22, 2015, 12:38 PM

Jan 2015

Gordon D. Giffin, named to the job by President Bill Clinton, received more than $990,000 (Canadian) last year in cash, stock and other compensation for his work on four Canadian corporate boards.

Giffin is a partner at McKenna Long & Aldridge, working out of the firm’s offices in Atlanta and Washington, DC. He served as ambassador to Canada from 1997 to 2001. Earlier in his career, he was legislative director and chief counsel to Sen. Sam Nunn.

As the State Department job helped boost both his connections and his income, he has shared the wealth. Giffin has donated money to the William J. Clinton Foundation and was a fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Giffin isn’t currently registered as a lobbyist, although he was until 2008, when his clients included TransCanada Pipelines.

http://news.muckety.com/2011/04/20/ex-ambassador-to-canada-reaps-high-corporate-compensation/31691
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