Incoming acting Labor Secretary Patrick Pizzella under scrutiny for work with disgraced lobbyist
Source: cnbc.com
Published 4 hours ago Updated 24 min ago
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Incoming acting Labor Secretary Patrick Pizzella will take the helm of the department following the resignation Friday of Alex Acosta, who faced scrutiny over his role in prosecuting alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein more than a decade ago.
But Pizzella, currently deputy Labor secretary, has his own controversial past that will likely come to the fore. Democratic senators and civil rights groups have expressed concern about Pizzellas prior work with disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff in the late 1990s and early 2000s to hamper worker protections in the Northern Mariana Islands.
When Pizzella worked on Abramoffs team at Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, the lobbying firm was pushing to prevent Congress from imposing minimum wage laws on the Northern Mariana Islands. At the time, there were maximum wage restrictions on the islands of $3.05 per hour for foreign workers, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting..............................
I have no idea what thats about, said Steven Groves, a White House deputy press secretary....................
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/12/acosta-replacement-pizzella-faces-scrutiny-for-work-with-jack-abramoff.html
Another Trump flunkie!!
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Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)The gift that keeps on giving.
George II
(67,782 posts)subterranean
(3,427 posts)Then he picks the scummiest, dirtiest one from that list. Preferably one who actively opposes the mission of the department they'd be leading.
Doitnow
(1,103 posts)not fooled
(5,801 posts)but scum mulvaney et. al were unhappy with him anyway because he wasn't deregulatin' fast enough for their taste, i.e. wasn't screwing workers completely, ASAP. So, now they have their chance to replace him with a full-on koch tool who will hurt workers including all of the morans who support their idol red don.
Ohiogal
(32,005 posts)Cannot he find ONE person who is honorable with no skeletons in their closet?
murielm99
(30,745 posts)then they would have no leverage with that person.
poli-junkie
(1,002 posts)that Northern Marianas Islands report of forced abortions of the laborers. Anyone remember that expose that went nowhere?
lanlady
(7,134 posts)He was CIO, and I worked as a contractor in information security, so my team met with him in his office now and then. This was when Elaine Chao was Secretary of Labor.
He lived in a complete right-wing cocoon. In his office he always had the TV switched on to Fox and a big round coffee table which had about one week's worth of the Washington Times fanned out across the top at all times. He talked like an entitled asshole.
As far as anyone could tell, he hardly did a lick of work. I think he left the post after news came out about his links to Jack Abramoff.
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)it never stops...
Eugene
(61,899 posts)In any other situation, this person would be considered radioactive. But in the Trump Gang, he's a perfect fit, unprincipled and dead set on defeating his agency's mission.