Federal Ethics Office Wants To Know If Trump Appointees Are Keeping Their Promises
Source: NPR
May 11, 20175:09 PM ET
PETER OVERBY
When the Senate was preparing to confirm President Trump's Cabinet and other top officials, the nominees negotiated ethics agreements, promising to rearrange their financial lives to avoid conflicts of interest. Now the Office of Government Ethics wants to know if they kept their word.
OGE is requiring the Cabinet secretaries and other Senate-confirmed officials to fill out a new Certification of Ethics Agreement Compliance. NPR obtained a copy of the form before its release Thursday.
The form asks if appointees followed through on pledges to resign from private-sector positions that posed conflicts of interest, divest financial holdings they had promised to sell and recuse themselves from any issues where they have had conflicts.
OGE plans to post the completed forms online, each one paired with the ethics agreement that the appointee signed during the Senate confirmation process. As with other federal documents, false statements run the risk of criminal penalties.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/2017/05/11/527964148/federal-ethics-office-wants-to-know-if-trump-appointees-are-keeping-their-promis
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we could get him for sure !!!
he's allowed
