With all eyes on the impeachment inquiry and the president's dealings with Ukraine, it might be easy to overlook other corruption happening in the administration. Here's what else our team is still investigating:
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross may blend into the background but don't forget all of his conflicts of interest — like failing to divest from his stocks and his role in the 2020 census citizenship question: washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…
We've obtained Ross' calendars, which show that he met with the CEO of steel manufacturer NLMK and the CEO of Cheniere Energy, which was linked to a shipping company that Ross had a financial interest in — and made a profit from while in office: americanoversight.org/document/comme…
Speaking of failing to divest, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao netted more than $40,000 from Vulcan Materials after she should have divested from the company. We filed FOIAs to find out more about Chao's compliance with her own ethics agreement: americanoversight.org/documents?fwp_…
A D.C. police union, a U.S. marine unit, and Attorney General William Barr have all announced plans to hold parties at Trump properties, and Trump proposed holding the G7 Summit at Doral. We've been investigating Trump's ongoing conflicts: americanoversight.org/investigation/…
Even more conflicts posed by Trump's hotel business: The House is investigating whether groups tried to curry favor with Trump by booking rooms at his hotels but never using them: politico.com/amp/news/2019/…
The oil and gas industry influence in the administration has been ongoing. (Remember that recording of oil execs laughing at their access to Trump?) We obtained records showing that the president’s top offshore oil and gas regulator had dozens of calls with energy industry groups
See Scott Angelle's phone logs and calendars. We know Angelle gives out his phone number to avoid putting things in texts and emails that are subject to FOIA. So we asked for his phone logs: americanoversight.org/document/bsee-…
And on the southern border, more and more reports of violence endured by migrants have been surfacing. We've been investigating the Trump administration's "remain in Mexico" policy: americanoversight.org/documents?fwp_…
The first death in a detention center for the new fiscal year was reported this week. We've been investigation conditions in detention centers and migrant deaths: americanoversight.org/document/compl…
We're continuing to investigate corruption across the administration. See our all our FOIAs and the records we uncover in the American Oversight documents library: americanoversight.org
