The head of the Office of Government Ethics, Walter M. Shaub Jr., announced his resignation on July 6. He recounted that a few months into President Trump’s term, the president’s lawyer asked Shaub if Trump could file his federal financial disclosure forms without signing them. Instead, Trump himself has steadily and openly scoffed at ethics norms. Shaub, too, was an immediate and visible critic of Trump’s subversion of long-standing ethics norms while still serving as OGE director. The closeness of Kaveladze to the Agalarovs makes it even more damning that Trump Jr. would have omitted identifying him as an attendee of the now-highly scrutinized meeting.

Source: Washington Post July 19, 2017 20:29 UTC