“investigation by ProPublica”
OH WOW. It must be serious then.
I’m ignorant of ethics rules but wouldn’t that apply to elected politicians and not cabinet members?
When you admit to being ignorant of ethics rules, I believe it!
In my company, I have an expense account of about $20,000 per annum. If I submitted a $500 receipt for Christmas cards and it turned out that I had commissioned my wife, using the business name Holiday Greetings, LLC, to make them, I’d be fired on the spot.
And I’m not even a public official!
Would you want you’re unelected Wildlife Commissioner to steer business to his wife’s nephew’s road grading business on a no-bid basis? Probably not.