Inspector general finds Trump interior secretary broke ethics rules

Published February 16, 2022 8:55pm ET



Former President Donald Trump‘s interior secretary violated ethics rules during his tenure, an investigation by an independent agency watchdog concluded.

The Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General said in a report released Wednesday that former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, who is now running for Congress again in Montana, improperly participated in private real estate negotiations during his time leading the federal agency and misled an ethics investigator.

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