Analysis: Here's why Interior's watchdog is investigating six Trump appointees
President Trump's often-repeated campaign promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington of special interests is getting yet another test.
But a complaint from the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center, which sparked the inspector general's probe, outlines how a half-dozen of his political appointees at Interior continued to discuss policy matters with organizations that had employed them in the past. in May 2018 that Domenech, the highest-ranking official named in the complaint, continued to interact with the conservative think tank that used to employ him before he joined Interior.
violated federal conflict of interest rules by weighing in on policies that could affect the former clients he represented while working at the law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.
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