"William Hague is a former telecom executive, and a campaign contributor to Doug Burgum, the current Interior Secretary."
"William “Bill” Hague is a long-time telecom executive who for years worked at AT&T and, more recently, at a company called Tillman Infrastructure, which specializes in cell tower construction. Earlier this year, he was appointed as the principal deputy assistant secretary of insular and international affairs at the Interior Department, where he will help oversee the federal government’s responsibilities to U.S. territories like Guam, American Samoa, the northern Mariana Islands and more.
While DOI’s office of insular and international affairs is sometimes staffed with loyal political operatives — the office in Trump’s first term was led by scandal-plagued Douglas Domenech, a GOP apparatchik and close personal friend of former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt — Hague’s elevation was curious. Hague does not appear to have been a fossil fuel lobbyist or a MAGA operative like so many other appointees at DOI. According to his resume, which Public Domain obtained via a public records request, he has spent most of his career in the telecom sector in Seattle, Atlanta and New York. The overseas experience mentioned on his resume, including travel to Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia, does not appear to involve the key territories that are the focus of his new job.
So why did this telecom executive land such a plum position within a cabinet-level Department? The Interior Department in a statement said that Hague’s “track record of forging international partnerships and driving large-scale infrastructure growth makes him a valuable asset to the Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular and International Affairs.”"
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