Top Obama official: Conway broke law by promoting Ivanka's clothing line
Source: The Hill
A former top official under President Obama is accusing White House counselor Kellyanne Conway of breaking the law by telling people to buy President Trump's daughter's clothing line in a TV interview.
Chris Lu, former deputy secretary of labor, on Thursday tweeted a screenshot of the federal ethics law he believes Conway was breaking.
"This is the federal ethics law that @KellyannePolls just violated," Lu tweeted, tagging the U.S. Office of Government Ethics and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), the chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/318668-top-obama-official-accuses-conway-of-breaking-the-law-with-ivanka
VMA131Marine
(4,139 posts)IOKIYAR
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)mindem
(1,580 posts)The repukes are still trying to find a way to gut anything to do with ethics oversight.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,488 posts)cc: @OfficeGovEthics @jasoninthehouse
Link to tweet
Chaffetz gets some comments here:
Link to tweet
DK504
(3,847 posts)Using their offices for personal gain. How many times have they done this?
Chap Ass will put on his cluelaess face on, okay more than usual clueless, and claim 'Nothing to see here folks, move along.'
He shows us we need to strengthen DOE more now than ever.
3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)...NOT to have one than to have it headed by Betsy.
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)Grrrrrrr
Baitball Blogger
(46,733 posts)By their experience, in their worlds, no one is held accountable for crossing the line between the public and private sector. So they don't care about the admonishments. Not until someone in authority can go nuclear on their butts and start penalizing them.
Wake up. We are living side by side with people who have relied on backdoor access to circumvent all the rules of decorum that the rest of us live by.
pandr32
(11,588 posts)Well said!
Paladin
(28,264 posts)FarPoint
(12,409 posts)No one will prosecute because they are protecting tRrump...They are a Mafia now.
bucolic_frolic
(43,177 posts)which is why her promotional ad lib is either a test, or thumbing her nose at Democrats
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)Then, again, he won't have time for big felonies, either.
But, oh, he'll have plenty of time to prosecute undocumented workers and he'll look high and low for those voting fraud cases that, of course, have reached epidemic proportions in TrumpyLand. He'll spend billions going into every alleyway and abandoned building in search of those "illegals" who voted. They're out there, Beauregard!
tavernier
(12,392 posts)They can just call it an alternative arrest.
dlk
(11,569 posts)As far as Republicans are concerned, the rule of law only applies to those who don't agree with them.
kiranerys
(54 posts)Clearly the DoJ under Sessions isn't going to do **** about this kind of thing, but could another clothing company have legal grounds to bring a civil suit against the administration over this?
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)adigal
(7,581 posts)W T F
(1,147 posts)nikibatts
(2,198 posts)One business that see Conway's comments makes an unfair commercial advantage for a competitor.
samnsara
(17,622 posts)better yet.. YES Trumpers! Use your entire welfare check to buy ivankas stuff. Your kids don't need food....the Donald will take care of them for you!
elmac
(4,642 posts)Sadly, he is probably distracting us from some other nightmare.
kacekwl
(7,017 posts)SO WHAT , Mind your business.
meadowlander
(4,397 posts)Why can't you all just read our minds instead of listening to what we actually say?
madville
(7,412 posts)Violations of these laws are typically handled through administrative actions within the person's agency, a letter of reprimand, loss of pay, etc.
niyad
(113,336 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)murielm99
(30,745 posts)when it comes to endorsements. It is easier for them now than in the past, but they still have to follow rules.
Dumbass Republicans. We have to keep up the pressure on them.
I hope this tanks Ivanka's clothing line even further. There are plenty of other designers out there. Maybe I will start paying closer attention to the labels I purchase. It is not as though I buy clothing all the time, but I will start checking more.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Chaffetz is a criminal.
JHan
(10,173 posts)5 CFR 2635.702 - Use of public office for private gain.
Example 1:
Offering to pursue a relative's consumer complaint over a household appliance, an employee of the Securities and Exchange Commission called the general counsel of the manufacturer and, in the course of discussing the problem, stated that he worked at the SEC and was responsible for reviewing the company's filings. The employee violated the prohibition against use of public office for private gain by invoking his official authority in an attempt to influence action to benefit his relative.
Example 2:
An employee of the Department of Commerce was asked by a friend to determine why his firm's export license had not yet been granted by another office within the Department of Commerce. At a department-level staff meeting, the employee raised as a matter for official inquiry the delay in approval of the particular license and asked that the particular license be expedited. The official used her public office in an attempt to benefit her friend and, in acting as her friend's agent for the purpose of pursuing the export license with the Department of Commerce, may also have violated 18 U.S.C. 205.
Won't be holding my breath for Chaffetz to weigh in on this..
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)mac56
(17,569 posts)The GOP never follows the rules that they make for others.
"This silly rule doesn't apply to ME....."
barbtries
(28,798 posts)all these violations going unopposed by ptb is maddening
3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)...there is NO class.
KAC is at the top of that class.