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Mike Pompeo is "absolutely" running in 2024, observers say — but financial questions linger The "bank adjustment" raises questions about a strange spike in interest payments after Pompeo took the State job February 12, 2021 10:55AM (UTC) S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the National Press Club in Washington,DC on January 12, 2021. - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo alleged Tuesday that arch-enemy Iran has become a new "home base" for Al-Qaeda worse than Afghanistan, an assertion questioned by experts. (ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) --

By Dan Mangan, CNBC • Updated on February 11, 2021 at 12:17 pm Petr David Josek | Reuters Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spent more than $10,000 of taxpayer money on China-made pens for attendees at private dinner parties. The parties were attended by a variety of CEOs, elected officials, GOP donors and diplomats. The pens were made in China. The dinners had raised concerns among some State Department officials, who worried that the "events were essentially using federal resources to cultivate a donor and supporter base for Pompeo’s political ambitions," NBC News reporte...

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spent more than $10,000 in taxpayer funds on engraved Madison Dinner-branded pens that he gifted to attendees of the notorious dinner parties, according to records obtained by CREW in an ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The guests included high-profile Republican donors, who could be politically useful if Pompeo runs for office in the future. This new disclosure brings the total amount of taxpayer funds spent on the dinners to at least $50,000, several thousand more than previously reported. The new records reveal that the pens, which were cust...

© GETTY IMAGES The State Department spent more than $10,000 in taxpayer funds over two years for engraved pens handed out to guests at former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Receipts obtained by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and published Thursday revealed that the State Department spent $4,387 in 2018 and $6,046 in 2020 for 400 engraved pens bearing a logo and engraved text reading "Madison Dinners" from Madden Branded Goods, a Florida-based company. Officials at the State Department did not immediately return a request for comment on the prior administration...