Mike Pompeo, while secretary of state, improperly asked a political appointee to carry out personal tasks, a watchdog said in a report published Friday. Pompeo and his wife, Susan, made over 100 requests to employees in the State Department’s Office of the Secretary, including the unnamed appointee, for work of a personal nature, such as …
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Congressman Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks at a “Women for American First” event Friday, April 9, 2021, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 10:15 AM PT – Saturday, April 10, 2021 Florida Representative Matt Gaetz (R) has continued to deny misconduct claims against him. At a “Save America Summit” event at the Trump National …
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The House Ethics Committee has rejected an appeal made by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) over a $5,000 fine for evading metal detector screening in violation of the House’s new security rules. According to a Feb. 4 memo (pdf) by Capitol Police, Gohmert “deliberately avoided” the screening when he entered the House chamber that day, and …
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A top ethics lawyer during the Obama administration said this week that President Joe Biden’s administration should clarify ethics rules after it was revealed his brother’s law firm was using the sibling relationship in promotional material. Frank Biden was hired by Berman Law Group as a senior adviser in 2018. Since then, the Florida-based company …
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FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: An illuminated Google logo is seen inside an office building in Zurich, Switzerland December 5, 2018. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann February 4, 2021 By Jeffrey Dastin and Paresh Dave SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – An engineering director and a software developer have quit Alphabet Inc’s Google over the dismissal of AI researcher Timnit Gebru, …
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FILE PHOTO: U.S. outgoing Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen holds a news conference after a two-day Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in Washington, U.S. December 13, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo/File Photo/File Photo February 1, 2021 By Trevor Hunnicutt and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Arguably the last thing new U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen …
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