Hillary Clinton paid staffer to maintain email server

Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton admitted she and her family paid a State Department staffer with personal funds to maintain a private email server that she used for both personal and government matters while secretary of state.

After a campaign appearance in New Hampshire, Clinton told reporters the payments went to information technology specialist Bryan Pagliano, who this week declined to produce documents and testify before a U.S. House of Representatives committee about the server, invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination.

“With respect to personal services that he provided to me and my family, we obviously paid for those services and did so because, during a period of time, we continued to need his technical assistance. And I think that’s in the public record,” Clinton said.