Ethics office concerned about White House not disciplining Conway for ethics flub

[Miles Archer]

Ethics office concerned about White House not disciplining Conway for ethics flub



http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/ethics-office-concerned-about-white-house-not-disciplining-conway-for-ethics-flub/

The head of a U.S. government ethics watchdog said on Thursday he was concerned about the White House decision not to discipline presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway after she publicly endorsed a clothing and jewelry line sold by President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump.

“Not taking disciplinary action against a senior official under such circumstances risks undermining the ethics program,” Office of Government Ethics Director Walter Shaub wrote in a letter to White House Deputy Counsel Stefan Passantino.

The ethics office had called for Conway to be disciplined after she said on television last month that people should “go buy Ivanka’s stuff,” in comments that appeared to violate government ethics rules prohibiting the use of public office to endorse products or advance personal business gains.

Passantino had said in a letter to Shaub made public last week that Conway, a senior aide to Donald Trump, had acted “inadvertently.” There was no mention of discipline in the letter.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Ethics-less, lawless, and shameless!!!

[babylonsister]

2. They don't care and that makes the ethics

office toothless.