The letter to Walter Shaub Jr., director of the Office of Government Ethics, asks him to appear before lawmakers in a closed-door, transcribed interview. Shaub is not being subpoenaed, but was asked to respond to questions in a setting much like a deposition, committee staff said. [Ethics chief blasts Trump plan to break from businesses, calling it “meaningless“]“I want to talk about the whole department,” Chaffetz said in an interview. “They are saying lay off Trump and push through these nominees or we’ll kill the funding of OGE,” Painter said. The ethics chief said the plan was “wholly inadequate” to protect the incoming president from conflicts of interest.

Source: Washington Post January 13, 2017 03:03 UTC