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Outgoing Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke faced scrutiny for favoring industry groups as well as personal friends and hometown contacts. We're still holding him accountable: americanoversight.org/our-ryan-zinke…
We still want answers about the $300 million contract, given to a small Montana-based company with only two full-time employees, to reinstall power in Puerto Rico: americanoversight.org/investigation/…
Zinke also put a high school friend with no experience in charge of reviewing grants that fund climate research. We submitted a FOIA to find out more: americanoversight.org/document/foia-…
Zinke and his wife also arranged VIP tours for their friends of National Park Service sites: americanoversight.org/document/foia-…
This isn't the first time Secretary Zinke's wife has been involved at Interior. She also joined him on official government travel at taxpayer expense: americanoversight.org/document/1927
We also obtained Zinke's office renovation expenses, which show that he spend time and money having his staff hang animal heads in his office for him: americanoversight.org/document/foia-…
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Tomorrow, House Democrats will begin oversight. We've already been filing FOIA requests and will sue to get the documents if the administration tries to stonewall Congress. See what we've filed so far: americanoversight.org/investigation/…
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.@SecretaryZinke is leaving the administration one day before the the new Congress to avoid facing scrutiny. But just because he's leaving doesn't mean we're done investigating: americanoversight.org/our-ryan-zinke…
.@Interior recently classified uranium as a “critical mineral." We submitted a FOIA to find out if the the uranium mining industry influenced this decision — and what impact it could have on national monuments: americanoversight.org/documents?fwp_…
From putting a high school friend with no experience in charge of grants to giving a $300 million contract to restore power in Puerto Rico to a tiny company from his hometown, it's clear Zinke favored personal connection over experience: americanoversight.org/our-ryan-zinke…
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Now that the House is investigating, Ben Carson could face real accountability for his son's participation in the Baltimore listening tour, retaliation against an employee who objected to his spending, and Armstrong Williams' role at the agency: motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Ben Carson allegedly demoted an employee who objected when he tried to spend $31,000 on a dining set. Emails we obtained show she was frequently asked about exceeding the $5,000 limit on renovations: americanoversight.org/investigation/…
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Zinke, like Trump, fired the official for investigating his crimes. It's time to pass a statute that protects the job security of inspectors general. It's a quasi-judicial office, and they should be allowed to do their jobs without getting fired for it. politicalwire.com/2018/10/17/zin…
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“Ryan Zinke's very first meeting as interior secretary was never put on his official calendar. It was a meeting scheduled to last five minutes with Chris Cox, the executive director of the @NRA’s lobbying arm.”

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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke could have avoided spending $12,375 on a charter flight following a speech to a hockey team owned by a former donor, government investigators said. bloomberg.com/politics/artic…
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