Kellyanne Conway Defies US Congressional Oversight Subpoena; Contempt Vote Announced; Will She Be Sent To Jail?
“Refusal to cooperate with a Congressional subpoena can result in charges of contempt of Congress, which could result in a …
Tag Archives: Ethics
Watchdog Accuses Ivanka Trump Kushner of Violating the Hatch Act
From VOA News: “Watchdog Accuses Ivanka Trump of Political Ethics Violation By VOA News June 20, 2019 03:23 PM A …
US House Intel Committee Chair Schiff Response to Special Counsel Mueller’s Statement on Conclusion of Investigation; Mueller Needs To Testify Before Congress
Mueller didn’t find Trump innocent of a crime, period: “if we had confidence that the President clearly did not commit …
US House Judiciary Chair Nadler Statement On Former White House Counsel McGahn’s Failure to Appear for Hearing into Trump’s Obstruction of Justice
At least Nadler’s not afraid of Trump and his “lieutenants“. Nadler has a track record of going after him. What …
US House Oversight Committee Launches Investigation into Trump Administration’s Secret Ethics Waivers
“Committee Launches Investigation into Trump Administration’s Secret Ethics Waivers May 16, 2019 Press Release Washington, D.C. (May 16, 2019)— Today, …
US House Oversight Chair Elijah Cummings Seeks Copies of Gag Orders on Trump White House Staff
US House Oversight Committee Chair US Congressman “Cummings Seeks Copies of Gag Orders on White House Staff May 14, 2019 …
US House Oversight Chair Cummings Statement on Mueller Report
US “Chairman Cummings Issues Statement on Mueller Report Apr 18, 2019 Press Release Washington, D.C. (Apr. 18, 2019)—Today, Rep. Elijah …
US House Chairmen Again Request Documents On Trump Hotel Lease With GSA
The Old Post Office Building leased to Trump for his hotel “LOC Gov Architectural details at Old Post Office Building …
US Congressmen Announce GAO Report Outlining Serious Compliance Issues With Agency And White House Ethics Programs
“GAO found significant problems in the ethics program at the Department of the Interior,” Chairman Cummings said. “This, combined with …
Trump’s UN Ambassador Resigned After Being Accused Of Ethics Violations; Recently Nominated Boeing Director
Then UN Ambassador Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley visiting with the recently indicted for corruption, Trump pal, Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu …
US House Committee Announces Rescheduling of Michael Cohen’s Public Testimony For Next Week
“Committee Announces Rescheduling of Michael Cohen’s Public Testimony Feb 20, 2019 Press Release Washington, D.C. (Feb. 20, 2019) — Today, …
GAO Report Shows Trump Spent $13.6 Million in Tax Dollars on Four of His Many Trips to Mar-a-Lago Plus $396,000 for Trump Org Business Trips By Sons
Trump’s trips draw coast guard personnel from other sectors. Does this weaken coast guard defense in other locations, facilitating smuggling? …
Scathing Inspector General Report on Trump Hotel – US House Oversight Chair Elijah Cummings Statement
“President Trump should not have any contracts with the federal government. It is an obvious conflict of interest, and it …
Radioactive Waste Dump Owner Semnani Paid Govt Official $600,000; Official Went to Jail, Got Cancer; Semnani Got Fined, Became Iran Policy “Expert”, “Philanthropist”
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
The $40 million being given by the US DOE to a US nuclear reactor “start-up” company,…
Middle-Class Consumers And Taxpayers Will Likely Pay For Trump-Verma Suspending Billions In Transfers Between Insurers
The burden of higher insurance prices caused by Donald John Trump and his Medicare-Medicaid Administrator, Seema Verma, will likely fall …
Trump Commerce Secretary Ross Shorted Stock In Russia-Linked Navigator Holdings Ltd. After Learning Of Pending News Report – Members of Congress Call On SEC To Investigate
“Warren, Blumenthal, Cummings Call on SEC to Investigate Potential Insider Trading by Commerce Secretary Ross Jun 28, 2018 Press Release …
Family’s Shipping Company Could Pose Problems For Trump’s Transportation Secretary Chao (Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Wife)
From ProPublica.org: “Family’s Shipping Company Could Pose Problems for Trump’s Transportation Pick: Elaine Chao’s family owns ships flagged abroad, a …
Comey Tweet Throws Light On Trump Prayer Breakfast Hypocrisy And Trump’s Eternal Future
The day that former Trump National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications …
Trump-Putin Teach Bonhoeffer; Bonhoeffer Explains Trump-Putin And The Urgency Of Holding Trump Legally Accountable While It Is Still Possible
In his work “Ethics”, theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing in Nazi Germany, made a point that it is worse for a …
Democrat Doug Jones Won Alabama Senate Election By Very Narrow Margin
“From 1997 to 2001, Jones served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, and is known …
US Senator Shelby Of Alabama: State “Deserves Better” than Election of Republican Roy Moore; Why Is “Trump On Trial In Alabama”? Why Roy Moore “Can’t Wait” To Get To Washington?
“Alabama’s senior senator, Republican Richard Shelby, said Sunday the state “deserves better” than the election of Republican Senate candidate Roy …
Dourson, An Industry Hired Gun, Would Undermine Landmark Bipartisan Chemical Safety Law; US Senator Udall Urges Full Senate To Reject Him
“OCTOBER 25, 2017 Udall Statement on EPW Committee Vote for Michael Dourson to Lead EPA’s Toxics Bureau, Urges Full Senate …
Trump Nominee Chemical Safety Office Recommended Allowing Amounts Of Toxic Chemicals That Were 10s, 100s, 1000s Of Times Higher Than US EPA Standards; Most Troubling Nominee Ever Considered Says US Senator Carper
Dourson, and presumably the others, got out of the committee but the US Senate must still vote. “That brings me …
Investigation Shows Trump Transition Ignored Ethics Officials and Refused to Cooperate with the US Government Accountability Office (GAO)
“It is outrageous that President Trump’s transition team and Vice President Pence’s office in the White House refused to even …
Trump Lists $19.6 Million Hotel Revenue From US Govt. Owned Old Post Office in Apparent Violation of Both Lease and the US Constitution; GSA Refuses to Give Congressional Democrats Requested Info
Architectural details at Old Post Office Building located on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. 2012 January. Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- …
Ethics Groups Send Letter to US Attorney Preet Bharara Requesting Investigation of Trump; Within Days Preet was Fired Along with 45 Other US Attorneys
Inside one of Trump’s Twin Towers in Istanbul, Turkey. Trump Tower 5th Ave. Last Wednesday, March 8th, several NGOs sent …
Worried This Billionaire Will Destroy Public Education, Teachers Have Some #Questions4Betsy – Hearing on Tuesday
From CommonDreams.org: “Worried This Billionaire Will Destroy Public Education, Teachers Have Some #Questions4Betsy, Published on Monday, January 16, 2017 The …
Sen. Markey vs. Tillerson Round 1: Exxon’s International Holdings and Ethics
Link: http://youtu.be/sG8hvoOhdmE All Caps Text from C-Span, emphasis our own: >> SENATOR MARKEY: >> MR. TILLERSON, DURING YOUR TENURE AS …
Tillerson “Ethics” Document Allows 90 Days to Divest Stocks; Many are Related to Military; Many are Foreign; Plus Legal Loopholes
For regular stock, whether Exxon or other, such as French State owned EDF, Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis, many related to …
Trump’s Pick for Commerce Secretary Conflicts of Interest: Steel Industry, Russia, China
From ProPublica: Trump’s Pick for Commerce Secretary May Have the Biggest Conflicts of Them All by Derek Kravitz, Dec. 16, …
US EPA had Authority, Sufficient Info to Issue Emergency Order Protecting Flint Residents from Lead-Contaminated Water by June 2015; Delayed until Jan. 21, 2016 (Office of Inspector General)
The US EPA Office of Inspector General (OIG) states that the US “EPA had authority, sufficient information to issue emergency …
Researchers Helped Uncover a Public Health Crisis in Flint, but Learned there are Costs to Doing Good Science
From “The Conversation“: We helped uncover a public health crisis in Flint, but learned there are costs to doing good …
Philadelphia: From Defective London Made Liberty Bell to Defective S. Korean Rail Cars (Hyundai Rotem, Rot’em or Rotten?)
“Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof Lev. XXV. v X.” “The Museum found a considerably …
Dietrich Bonhoeffer 4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945
Dietrich Bonhoeffer 4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945 “For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity or …
Radioactive Waste Dump Owner Semnani Paid Govt Official $600,000; Official Went to Jail, Got Cancer; Semnani Got Fined, Became Iran Policy “Expert”, “Philanthropist”
The $40 million being given by the US DOE to a US nuclear reactor “start-up” company, X-energy, owned by Iranian …
Nuclear Energy Opposed by Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox Christian Churches; Divestment from Nuclear Called For
The opposition to nuclear weapons by many Churches is well known and long-standing. What of nuclear energy? The World Council …
Theodore Parker on the Lack of Morality of the Controlling Class
“They love the exclusive use of certain forms of truth, and neglect justice” Theodore Parker (1810-1860) is recognized as having …
34 Groups Urge US NRC to Postpone Key Votes in Order to Avoid “Taint” of Magwood Conflict of Interest
Emphasis added. Original NIRS Press Release here: http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/licensing/pr082114nrcvotedelay.pdf
SRS-South Carolina is NOT a Disposal Site for High-Level Nuclear Waste – German or non-German – the USA has No Site!
Please remember to oppose shipping German Nuclear Waste to the USA. “through July 21, 2014. DOE will consider all comments …
Radiation Impacts: US Declassified Research-Expts, 1943-1949, Part II
When deciding to post this research bibliography, our intent was to show how much research had occurred by 1949 – …
Koch & smart-ALEC are buying entire US University Departments
Originally posted on Louisiana Voice:
When we wrote what we thought was a parody about Gov. Bobby Jindal’s decision to privatize…
Nuclear Lies, the TEPCO Nuclear Disaster, and Ethics
“Lies and Truthfulness First, one of the ethical principles of Buddhism and Christianity is truthfulness and the rejection of telling …
The Ongoing Saga 17: News, Updates, Tidbits & Trivia
NB: Usually updated daily. Our latest updates will be on top, so that daily readers will not have to scroll-down. …
