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"For as long as I remain director (Office of Govt. Ethics)..." (Original Post) bigtree Jan 2017 OP
Holy Smokes. elehhhhna Jan 2017 #1
here's the WaPo report bigtree Jan 2017 #3
thanks bigtree saidsimplesimon Jan 2017 #7
I saw that too Generator Jan 2017 #4
Just wait. They'll sack him and disband the agency. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2017 #2
CONgress already tried to disband it on Day One of the session wordpix Jan 2017 #5
Just wait till he is inaugurated. milestogo Jan 2017 #6
You mean "installed." colorado_ufo Jan 2017 #9
Think they won't try again? Crunchy Frog Jan 2017 #8
(not sure, but I think that was a congressional ethics office....) lastlib Jan 2017 #10
You are correct. *This* office was created after Watergate. Raine1967 Jan 2017 #14
That was the Office of Congressional Ethics whose rules they tried to weaken. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2017 #17
They have to uponit7771 Jan 2017 #12
Well this just got me more pissed... N_E_1 for Tennis Jan 2017 #11
Ethics in Government Act is a Federal Law passed in 1978. Ford_Prefect Jan 2017 #13
Laws? We don't need no stinking laws. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2017 #15
I wonder if the Fuhrer has sent Shaub his pink slip yet. Vinca Jan 2017 #16
 

elehhhhna

(32,076 posts)
1. Holy Smokes.
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 02:40 PM
Jan 2017

Didn't know appointees were traditionally cleared before they were announced.

This is unprecedented on many levels.

bigtree

(85,996 posts)
3. here's the WaPo report
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 02:48 PM
Jan 2017
Tana Hargest @TanaHargest
Call & write senators now! Tell them no confirmation hearings unless all required disclosures are made. https://t.co/hjtLiZ3Apm

wordpix

(18,652 posts)
5. CONgress already tried to disband it on Day One of the session
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 03:04 PM
Jan 2017

but The People interfered. Even Don the Con asked why this was the CONgress' highest priority.

lastlib

(23,239 posts)
10. (not sure, but I think that was a congressional ethics office....)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 04:08 PM
Jan 2017

this is an executive-branch office if I understand correctly. Oversees ethics for presidential employees.

('Course, ah could be wrowng.......)

Raine1967

(11,589 posts)
14. You are correct. *This* office was created after Watergate.
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 04:32 PM
Jan 2017

because there was a dire need for an ethical office after Nixon.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,719 posts)
17. That was the Office of Congressional Ethics whose rules they tried to weaken.
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 04:44 PM
Jan 2017

This is a different agency - the Office of Government Ethics, whose job is to prevent conflicts of interest in the executive branch. https://www.oge.gov/

N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,728 posts)
11. Well this just got me more pissed...
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 04:30 PM
Jan 2017

If the nominees have to be vetted and I can understand that.

Why the mother fucking place in the dredges of hell are the candidates for the
Most powerful post in the world NOT vetted?

It would have made all this crap we are going though extinct.

This country needs a big, big, wake up call. Trump is not it but may be the beginning.

We need to revolt. Somehow, someway!

Ford_Prefect

(7,901 posts)
13. Ethics in Government Act is a Federal Law passed in 1978.
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 04:32 PM
Jan 2017
Title I requires men and women in the public service sector to fill out financial disclosure forms which include the sources and amounts of income, gifts, reimbursements, the identity and approximate value of property held and liabilities owed, transactions in property, commodities, and securities, and certain financial interests of a spouse or dependent.

The report must then be filed to the appropriate state officer of his or her state, and the committee charged with issues of ethics in his or her respective house of Congress. The President, Vice President, counsel appointed to the United States Department of Justice, and nominees to positions that require United States Senate confirmation must file with the Director of the Office of Government Ethics.

People that must file reports include, but are not limited to: the President, Vice President, employees and officers of the Executive Branch, Postmaster General, the Deputy Postmaster General, each Governor of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service and each officer or employee of the United States Postal Service or Postal Regulatory Commission.

Disclosure must also be made available to the public shortly after they are submitted.

The Attorney General of the United States can bring charges against anyone who falsifies information in the reports.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,719 posts)
15. Laws? We don't need no stinking laws.
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 04:40 PM
Jan 2017

These assholes will ignore the laws and get away with it. Trump's attorney general won't bring charges against anybody who falsifies information in the reports. And this corrupt GOP congress wouldn't be above repealing the statutes altogether. I just hope that public pressure is enough to make them back off on some of their worst behavior (and they did back off, at least temporarily, when it was discovered that the House was about to gut its own ethics rules).

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