Tag: Ethics

Whitehouse said that Pruitt "has a long record of dark money fundraising and cozy relationships with big, fossil-fuel political donors." (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Energy and Environment

Trump’s EPA chief cancels GOP fundraiser after ethics complaint

John Siciliano · April 27, 2017 8:55 pm

The State Department has removed the Mar-a-Lago reference, which appeared on the department's ShareAmerica website. (iStock photo)

Liberal group files ethics complaint over Mar-a-Lago promotion

Susan Ferrechio · April 25, 2017 4:13 pm

The VA has also promoted the employee's books on its website, which some are saying this amounts to taxpayers helping a Trump opponent sell her books. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

VA defends employee’s anti-Trump tweets, book plugs as ‘freedom of speech’

Pete Kasperowicz · April 25, 2017 4:01 am

The state ethics panel probed Bondi, a longtime supporter of Trump, in relation to her decision to seek tens of thousands of dollars from Trump nearly four years ago. (AP Photo/Joe Reedy)

Report: Florida ethics panel clears Pam Bondi over Trump contribution

Ryan Lovelace · April 22, 2017 2:02 pm

The letter asked for "clarification on your recent communications" with Breitbart, which Bannon ran before taking on his role in the White House. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Elizabeth Warren demands ethics answers from Steve Bannon

Eddie Scarry · April 20, 2017 7:10 pm

Ivanka Trump dined with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago on the same day her company won provisional approval from the country's government for three new trademarks. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Ivanka Trump got approval on China trademarks same day she met with Chinese President Xi Jinping

Caitlin Yilek · April 18, 2017 12:56 pm

Some presidential appointees in the Trump administration have very close business ties to the agencies for which they work. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Report: Trump appointees working around ethics violations

Kelly Cohen · April 15, 2017 10:35 pm

Trump's campaign spent more than $14 million on Trump-branded companies. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Report: Trump-owned companies got nearly $500K in campaign funds

Kelly Cohen · April 15, 2017 6:41 pm

Congressional Democrats this year introduced a bill that would require the publication of visitor logs at any other place President Trump might travel to, giving the bill the acronym the MAR-A-LAGO Act. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Groups sue Trump White House over visitor logs

Todd Shepherd · April 10, 2017 2:58 pm

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif. is pursued by reporters as he arrives for a weekly meeting of the Republican Conference with House Speaker Paul Ryan and the GOP leadership, Tuesday, March 28, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Nunes is facing growing calls to step away from the panel's Russia investigation as revelations about a secret source meeting on White House grounds raised questions about his and the panel's independence. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rid us of this blasted ethics office

Washington Examiner · April 9, 2017 4:04 am

(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Beltway Confidential

That Gorsuch plagiarism story stinks

Becket Adams · April 5, 2017 5:02 pm

The Office of Government Ethics gave Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin a pass Friday for endorsing the "Lego Batman" movie, citing Mnuchin's admission earlier in the day that he was wrong to do so. (Photo by Diane Bondareff/AP Images for LEGO Systems)

Ethics office gives Mnuchin a pass on ‘Lego Batman’ endorsement

Joseph Lawler · March 31, 2017 9:24 pm