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Conflicts Of Interest
Perdue Hit With More Allegations of Shady Stock Transactions He bought stock in a submarine company, helped it out in the Senate, then made a windfall. And the news comes as he fights for his political life.
By Ed Kilgore
conflicts of interest
May 28, 2019
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Owns Stock She Vowed to Divest: Report Despite owning gravel company stock she agreed to divest, the Department of Transportation said that Chao isn’t engaged in an ethical violation.
By Matt Stieb
conflicts of interest
May 2, 2019
Trump’s Nominee for U.N. Ambassador Kelly Craft Has Billion-Dollar Ties to Coal Craft once expressed climate denialism and her husband is a coal baron. She may soon represent the U.S. at the key venue for combating climate change.
By Matt Stieb
Qatar Refused to Invest in Kushner’s Firm. Then, He Backed a Blockade of Qatar. A new report suggests that Jared Kushner may have sabotaged America’s relationship with a core ally because it turned down his dad’s investment pitch.
By Eric Levitz
Official Leading Anti-Smoking Push Resigns After Buying Tobacco Stock CDC head Brenda Fitzgerald bought stock in a cigarette company after starting a job in which she’s supposed to fight smoking.
By Adam K. Raymond
Trump Courts Appearance of Impropriety in Interviewing U.S. Attorney Candidates He personally interviewed U.S. attorney candidates in jurisdictions where cases against him or his businesses might arise.
By Ed Kilgore
conflicts of interest
Oct. 19, 2017
Are Foreign Payments to Trump’s Businesses Unconstitutional? We’ll Find Out. A federal judge in Manhattan heard arguments on whether Trump’s business profits violate the obscure foreign emoluments clause.
By Cristian Farias
Kushner Sought $500 Million Bailout From Top Qatari Investor: Report After that deal fell through, the president’s son-in-law pushed for the U.S. to support the Saudis’ blockade of Qatar.
By Eric Levitz
Treasury Secretary Sells Stake in Production Company That Made Entourage Movie Founded with an Australian billionaire and Brett Ratner, the company was also behind Wonder Woman and Suicide Squad .
By Adam K. Raymond
emoluments clause
June 12, 2017
Is Trump Inc. the President’s Greatest Vulnerability? A group of enterprising lawyers thinks it might be, whether all roads lead to Russia or not.
By Andrew Rice
D.C. and Maryland to Sue Trump for Accepting Payments From Foreign Governments Their attorneys general will argue that the president has violated the Constitution’s emoluments clause.
By Caroline Bankoff
conflicts of interest
June 10, 2017
Trump Can Accept Payments From Foreign Governments, Justice Department Argues The Trump administration is trying to quash a lawsuit that accuses the president of violating the U.S. Constitution.
By Chas Danner
Ivanka Trump’s Company Filed for Even More Chinese Trademarks The filings came a day before she was named a White House adviser.
By Claire Landsbaum
Pro-Trumpcare Republicans Owned $23 Million in Health-Care Stock When the House GOP voted to repeal Obamacare, many were also voting to advance the interests of pharmaceutical companies they owned shares of.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Adviser Makes $60 Million by Advising Trump to Deregulate His Company Trump made Carl Icahn his “special regulatory adviser” — and let him advise the government to relax renewable fuel standards on his company.
By Eric Levitz
The Trump Administration Has Declared War on the Office of Government Ethics The office asked the White House to disclose any ethics waivers it provided to ex-lobbyists. The White House said the office can’t make them do that.
By Eric Levitz
Donald Trump Jr. Discusses ‘New Ideas’ With Dubai Business Partner The Trump Organization promised not to make any new foreign deals while Donald Trump was president. Its friends in the UAE don’t seem to buy that.
By Eric Levitz
conflicts of interest
May 7, 2017
Jared Kushner’s Family Business Is Pitching U.S. Visas to Investors in China Looking to finance a Jersey City apartment building, Jared’s sister Nicole told investors the project “means a lot to me and my entire family.”
By Chas Danner
Steven Mnuchin: I Wasn’t Endorsing Lego Batman When I Endorsed Lego Batman After ethics complaints, the Treasury secretary is walking back his suggestion that people go see the movie he produced.
By Adam K. Raymond
Chinese Firm With Government Ties Gives Kushner Family ‘Sweetheart Deal’ Critics are worried that the company is trying to influence U.S. policy with the massive investment.
By Adam K. Raymond
Jason Chaffetz Keeps Focus on What Really Matters: Hillary Clinton’s Emails The House Oversight chair is seeking charges against the ex–State Department employee who helped set up Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Jan. 12, 2017
Trump Needs to Take Business Conflicts More Seriously, for His Own Sake It’s not just the ethical thing to do. A better plan to address conflicts of interest will make his presidency stronger.
By Margaret Hartmann
Rex Tillerson Will Cut All Ties With Exxon If He Becomes Secretary of State With his confirmation fight looming, the Exxon CEO reveals a plan to sell off his Exxon shares before becoming Trump’s top diplomat.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Shouts Out Dubai Business Partner in New Year’s Eve Speech The billionaire developer said he looks forward to striking new deals with Trump.
By Adam K. Raymond
Trump’s Tech Meeting Disrupted the Norms of Liberal Democracy Trump promised to cede control of his company to his sons, Eric and Don Jr. Then, he invited them to a policy meeting with Silicon Valley titans.
By Eric Levitz
Dems: GSA Says Trump Will Need to Fully Divest From His D.C. Hotel But the GSA says it has not yet settled on a position in the matter.
By Eric Levitz
Federal Ethics Agency Trolls Trump Over Business Conflicts The Office of Government Ethics praised the president-elect for divesting from his business, which Trump isn’t doing.
By Adam K. Raymond
Trump Won the Presidency, Then Approval on a Tax Subsidy for His Hotel After the election, the federal government approved the second phase of Trump’s application for a massive tax break on his D.C. hotel.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Says He Will ‘Leave His Business.’ That Probably Means Nothing. Trump says the move will eliminate all conflicts of interest. But if he’s still planning to transfer control of the company to his kids, he is lying.
By Eric Levitz
the national interest
Nov. 23, 2016
Trump’s Kleptocracy Is So Astounding It Already Feels Like Old News His brazen use of the office for personal enrichment reveals how willing the new administration is to obliterate governing norms.
By Jonathan Chait
The Constitution (Probably) Won’t Save Us If Trump Becomes a Kleptocrat Profiting off the presidency is prohibited by the “Emoluments Clause” of the Constitution — but it’s not much of a deterrent.
By Eric Levitz
conflicts of interest
Nov. 20, 2016
Trump Met With His Indian Business Partners Last Week, Raising Pay-to-Play Fears But Trump’s new chief of staff says the American people have nothing to worry about.
By Chas Danner
conflicts of interest
Nov. 19, 2016
Foreign Diplomats Are Apparently Lining Up to Do Business at Trump’s D.C. Hotel The conflict of interest between Trump’s presidency and his businesses is no longer hypothetical.
By Chas Danner
The Trumps Are Already Monetizing the Presidency Ivanka leveraged her 60 Minutes appearance to hawk gold bracelets. But far more lucrative opportunities loom on the horizon.
By Eric Levitz
If Clinton Needs to Close Her Foundation, Trump Needs to Dissolve His Company Trump’s company has financial ties with a long list of our government’s allies and enemies. Those conflicts of interest can’t be escaped.
By Eric Levitz
My Fellow Americans, the State of Trump Steaks Is Strong Trump’s bizarre, product-placement-filled victory speech was a reminder of the myriad conflicts of interest he’d confront as president.
By Eric Levitz
conflicts of interest
Nov. 18, 2014
By Katie Zavadski
in other news
Aug. 23, 2007
New ‘Times’ HQ: Mo’ Subcontractors, Mo’ Problems The new New York Times tower is shiny and pretty and environmentally friendly and all that. But, as it turns out, it’s also a hulking mass of conflicts of interest. For the last year or so, every time the paper so much as passingly mentions the Atlantic Yards project it feels compelled to make the ritual disclosure that, indeed, Bruce Ratner’s Forest City Ratner was also responsible for the new 52-story headquarters. And now that it’s turning out that at least some of the blame for the botched Deutsche Bank dismantling that led to two firefighters’ deaths belongs to a company called Safeway Environmental, a new standard disclaimer was introduced today:
(Safeway Environmental was one of the subcontractors used in the development of a new headquarters for The New York Times, across Eighth Avenue from the Port Authority Bus Terminal.)
What’s coming next? Did Roger Stone lobby for tax breaks on the new building? Did Joe Bruno fly down for the day to have a meeting about it? Do employees feel violated as neighbors peer through the glass walls at what’s going on inside? We so hope David Berkowitz used to deliver mail to whatever stood on the Eighth Avenue site back in the seventies. That’d be an awesome disclaimer.
Obscure Company Is Behind 9/11 Demolition Work [NYT]