Nikki Haley's resignation comes one day after an ethics watchdog requested an investigation into her
Source: Business insider
United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley's abrupt resignation on Tuesday came one day after an ethics watchdog group requested the State Department's inspector general investigate her acceptance of seven free flights aboard private jets from a trio of South Carolina businessmen.
Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, listed the flights on her 2017 financial disclosure and asserted that each qualified for an exception based on her relationships with the businessmen.
But the group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said in its complaint that Haley's financial disclosure did not provide enough information to make the assertion that the flights between New York, Washington, DC, and three South Carolina cities qualified for the exemption.
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"Whether the exception applies depends partly on whether the three businessmen were the only sources of the gifts; if business entities were sources of the gifts, the exception was inapplicable," CREW said. "Federal ethics regulations prohibit employees from soliciting or accepting gifts given because of the employee's official position."
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BumRushDaShow
(129,440 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)she is the author of the NYT op-ed that criticized him. Otherwise, he would tell the CRE to go to hell.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)There were whispers about her governorship when she first got nominated to go to the UN.
And of course, it wasn't really investigated because, you know, Republican.