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A top official charged with overseeing the safety of the nation's railroads has resigned "effective immediately," the Department of Transportation said Saturday after POLITICO raised questions about whether he was simultaneously working as a public relations consultant in Mississippi.
The news comes at a time of strain for the Federal Railroad Administration, which hasnt had a permanent leader for more than a year while it investigates a string of fatal train crashes and deals with a rising trend of rail-related deaths.
Heath Hall became the Federal Railroad Administration's acting chief after being appointed deputy administrator in June. But he subsequently appeared at least twice in local media reports last summer as a sheriff's spokesman in Madison County, Miss., where he has long run a public relations and political consulting firm.
The firm also continued to receive payments from the county for its services from July through December, despite Hall's pledge in a federal ethics form that the business would be "dormant" while he worked at DOT. And Tiffany Lindemann, a former FRA public affairs official who left the agency in September, told POLITICO this week that she had fielded at least three requests from a Mississippi television journalist seeking to speak with Hall during the summer.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/10/railroad-safety-agency-chief-resigns-heath-hall-402093?utm_campaign=news-alert&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nuzzel
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)That was a rhetorical question; obviously they can't. If you're competent and ethical you won't want to work for this WH.
msongs
(67,443 posts)running an ad listing all the people who have quit the trump admin for questionable behavior
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)but married to retired traffic reconstruction homicide detective.
I'm gonna apply, close enough. Sure, I know about the 3 recent deadly train accidents but that's more then the last guy did. Wish me luck.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,369 posts)Just remember: gravity is not always your friend. Neither are inertia and momentum.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Firings/Resignations/Departures under Trump*
Yates
Flynn
Bharara
Walsh
Comey
Dubke
Shaub
Corralo
Spicer
Short
Harvey
Priebus
Mooch
Cohen-Watnick
Higgins
Bannon
Gorka
Sifakis
Icahn
Price
Powell
Manigault
Dearborn
Katz
McCabe
Porter
Sorensen
* By my count
+ HALL