Inspector general: interior secretary Zinke's travel with wife violated policy
Source: The Guardian
Tom McCarthy in New York
Fri 19 Oct 2018 02.36 BST
An internal investigation at the interior department has concluded that secretary Ryan Zinke abused his office by allowing family members to ride with him in government vehicles, in violation of department regulations prohibiting that practice.
An inspector general report said that Zinke had invited his wife Lolita Zinke on certain boat travel with a green light from his department’s solicitor general’s office. But in other cases, the Zinke family had reimbursed the department for family travel, investigators found.
The report also found that the department had paid $25,000 for a security detail to accompany the Zinke family on a summer vacation in Turkey and Greece.
The report found that Zinke’s staff had researched whether Lolita Zinke could be classified as a department volunteer, allegedly to circumvent a requirement for the family to reimburse the department for her travel. Zinke denied that the volunteer idea was related to Lolita Zinke’s travel expenses. She never was classified as a volunteer, the report found.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/18/inspector-general-ryan-zinke-travel-policy-violation
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