Former US president criticised over role at Wall Street firm’s conference after he previously vowed crackdown on ‘rotund cats’Barack Obama is to be paid $400000 (£312000) to speak at a healthcare conference organised by the Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald,despite his criticism of the finance sector when he was US president.
The fee is nearly double that received by Hillary Clinton, who had hoped to replace him as president, and for speeches at Goldman Sachs and indicates the scale of the potential earnings of the former US president.
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Source: theguardian.com