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Hunter Biden Isn’t Going Away

October 12, 2021 at 8:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Politico: “So far, right-leaning outlets that devoted less attention to the ethical issues raised by the activities of Trump’s relatives have had a field day with the Hunter Biden story. Interest in his activities, meanwhile, has been relatively muted on the left.”

“That may be changing. Along with new evidence that at least some of the alleged laptop material is genuine — as well as other emerging evidence about the deals family members have sought or received from people with an interest in influencing Biden — the bipartisan outcry over the painting venture suggests that the Hunter Biden issue is not going away, and that liberals may increasingly tune in.”

Filed Under: Ethics, White House

New York Probes Approval of Cuomo’s Book Deal

October 6, 2021 at 3:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“New York’s ethics commission is hiring outside counsel to conduct an inquiry into its own staff’s approval of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s $5.1 million book deal last year,” the Albany Times Union reports.

Filed Under: Ethics

Powell Orders Ethics Review at Fed

September 16, 2021 at 12:40 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has directed staff to review the central bank’s ethics rules around appropriate financial activities after filings showed a senior central bank official made multiple multimillion-dollar stock trades in 2020, while others held significant investments,” CNBC reports.

Filed Under: Ethics, Financial Markets


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16 Biden Officials Given Ethics Exemptions

August 29, 2021 at 8:43 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Top Biden officials have been excused from the ethics rules President Biden boasts about so they can do work involving large Wall Street banks, a leading defense contractor and prominent national media outlets, records show,” Axios reports.

“At least 16 Senate-confirmed officials have received waivers to ethics laws and regulations.”

Filed Under: Ethics

GOP Lawmaker Used Campaign Funds for Family Vacations

August 25, 2021 at 2:41 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV) “spent thousands of campaign dollars on personal expenses, including numerous fast food meals and family excursions to West Virginia resorts, while failing to properly report more than $40,000 in expenditures,” Roll Call reports.

“It is unclear what the House Ethics Committee will do to discipline Mooney, if anything. Sanctions could range from no punishment to a recommendation that the full House vote for expulsion, the latter of which is unlikely.”

Filed Under: Ethics, House of Representatives

GOP Lawmaker Failed to Disclose $10.9 Million In Trades

August 19, 2021 at 4:32 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) failed to properly disclose more than 700 stock trades that together are worth at least $728K and as much as $10.9 million, Insider reports.

Filed Under: Ethics, House of Representatives

Rand Paul Disclosed Wife’s Stock Trade 16 Months Late

August 12, 2021 at 6:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Sen. Rand Paul revealed Wednesday that his wife bought stock in Gilead Sciences — which makes an antiviral drug used to treat Covid-19 — on Feb. 26, 2020, before the threat from the coronavirus was fully understood by the public and before it was classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization,” the Washington Post reports.

“The disclosure, in a filing with the Senate, came 16 months after the 45-day reporting deadline set forth in the Stock Act, which is designed to combat insider trading.”

Filed Under: Ethics, Senate

San Francisco Mayor Under Fire for Ethics Violations

August 6, 2021 at 10:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

San Francisco Chronicle: “San Francisco Mayor London Breed has agreed to pay a $22,792 city fine to settle allegations that she committed a series of ethics violations while in office, including asking former Gov. Jerry Brown to release her brother from prison and allowing Mohammed Nuru, the disgraced former head of Public Works, to pay for repairs to a car she owned.”

Filed Under: City Hall, Ethics

Tuberville Reports $1 Million In Questionable Trades

July 27, 2021 at 2:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) “bought and sold more than $1 million worth of securities during his first five months in the Senate, buying and selling stock in some companies with business before his committees,” Forbes reports.

Filed Under: Ethics, Senate

GOP Lawmaker Failed to Disclose Stock Trades

July 26, 2021 at 1:27 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT) “failed to properly disclose dozens of stock and stock-option trades together worth at least $70,000 and as much as $1.1 million,” Insider reports.

Moore is a member of the House Armed Services Committee and invested in the defense contractor Raytheon.

Filed Under: Ethics, House of Representatives

Deal of the Art

July 9, 2021 at 6:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “White House officials have helped craft an agreement under which purchases of Hunter Biden’s artwork — which could be listed at prices as high as $500,000 — will be kept confidential from even the artist himself, in an attempt to avoid ethical issues that could arise as a presidential family member tries to sell a product with a highly subjective value.”

New York Times: White House sets ethics plan for sale of Hunter Biden’s art.

Filed Under: Ethics, White House

GOP Lawmaker Failed to Disclose $17 Million In Trades

June 29, 2021 at 9:37 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) “failed to properly disclose dozens of stock trades together worth at least $7.8 million — and as much as $17.53 million,” Insider reports.

Filed Under: Ethics, House of Representatives

Democratic Lawmaker Chased Profit During Pandemic

May 25, 2021 at 11:18 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“In the early days of the pandemic, Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) scolded those looking to capitalize on the once-in-a-century health crisis,” the AP reports.

Said Malinowski: “This is not the time for anybody to be profiting off of selling ventilators, vaccines, drugs, treatments, PPE, anywhere in the world.”

“He did not heed his own admonition. Since early 2020, Malinowski has bought or sold as much as $1 million of stock in medical and tech companies that had a stake in the virus response… The trades were just one slice of a stock buying and selling spree by the congressman during that time, worth as much as $3.2 million, that he did not properly disclose.”

Filed Under: Ethics, House of Representatives

Standoff Stalls Trump-Inspired Ethics Measures

April 25, 2021 at 1:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “A suite of legislative responses, like requiring the release of presidential tax returns and barring presidents from channeling government money to their private businesses, is now hostage in the Senate to a more public fight over voting rights. And competing priorities of President Biden’s may ensure that the moment to fortify constitutional guardrails that Trump plowed through may already have passed.”

“Solid Republican opposition to S. 1’s voter access proposals threatens less debated elements in the measure, part of what was envisioned to be the most comprehensive ethics overhaul since Watergate.”

Filed Under: Ethics

House Ethics Committee to Investigate Matt Gaetz

April 9, 2021 at 3:46 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The House Ethics committee said it would launch an investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who has been accused of a sexual relationship with an underage girl, among a litany of other things,” the Washington Post reports.

Filed Under: Ethics, House of Representatives

Crenshaw Did Not Disclose Stock Transactions

March 9, 2021 at 6:41 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Daily Beast: “Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) did not buy or sell any stocks in his first 13 months as a congressman. That changed in March 2020, when he made half a dozen buys as the largest economic relief package in history was written and debated.”

“Five of those purchases came in the three days between March 25 and 27, as the Senate and House voted on the CARES Act and former President Trump signed it into law. Crenshaw, who supported the bill, did not initially disclose the transactions, in violation of the STOCK Act.”

Filed Under: Ethics

GOP Lawmaker Improperly Used Position

March 1, 2021 at 10:48 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The Office of Congressional Ethics concluded in a report that there is “substantial” evidence that Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-MS) misused campaign as well as official funds and used his office to help his brother in violation of House rules, The Hill reports.

Filed Under: Ethics, House of Representatives

Boebert Paid Off State Tax Liens

February 5, 2021 at 4:02 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Just days after it was reported that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) claimed more than $22,000 in mileage reimbursements on her campaign finance filings — which would require driving 38,712 miles — Colorado Newsline reports she recently paid off nearly $20,000 in state tax liens that had accumulated on her restaurant since 2016.

Filed Under: Ethics, House of Representatives

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