Ernest Moniz, who as Energy Secretary oversaw DOE's handling of USEC's 2014 bankruptcy, had previously served as a paid member of USEC's strategic advisory council from 2002 to 2004

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Ernest Moniz served as U.S. Secretary of Energy from 2013 to 2017, a tenure that spanned USEC Inc.'s March 2014 Chapter 11 filing and the Department of Energy's subsequent decisions about USEC's American Centrifuge Plant contracts and support. Per Washington Examiner reporter Luke Rosiak, writing on 30 December 2013 — two weeks after USEC's 16 December 2013 announcement that it planned a Chapter 11 filing — "Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz was a paid member of USEC's strategic advisory council between 2002 and 2004" — nearly a decade before he assumed the Cabinet post responsible for decisions affecting the same company.

The report was published in the context of a $30 million DOE payment to USEC made two days after the bankruptcy announcement, part of the same reporting that also corroborates claim-usec-10k-attributes-acp-nonviability-to-post-fukushima-oversupply's market-oversupply framing from a separately-filed SEC disclosure. This claim is recorded here as a standalone biographical fact about Moniz's prior relationship to USEC; it is not, on the evidence gathered so far, established as having influenced any specific DOE decision — that inferential leap is not made here.