Commentary: An unethical blessing from ethics office
by Walter Shaub, Los Angeles Times
Feb 11, 2018
3 minutes
Under cover of the feverish reaction to the FBI memorandum released by Rep. Devin Nunes, the Office of Government Ethics quietly dumped documents revealing a new low point in the agency's 40-year history. In a letter signed Jan. 29, but withheld from public view until the memo frenzy was peaking, the agency's Trump-appointed acting director, David Apol, blessed a shockingly permissive arrangement for funneling cash to White House appointees and others linked to Trump.
The fund, which will reimburse legal fees stemming from the Russia investigations, represents a radical and dangerous departure from established practice for
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