Members of Trump’s cabinet were also plagued by conflicts of interest and compliance issues. For example, Wilbur Ross earned between $53 million and $127 million in outside income while serving as the Secretary of Commerce where his tenure was marked by repeated instances of him mixing personal business with his official duties and other compliance […]
[…] add the citizenship question to the census was a thinly veiled attempt to reduce participation of mixed citizenship status families and undercount minority groups. Furthermore, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross misrepresented the reasons behind the reinstatement of this question, but the Department of Justice has failed to prosecute him for his lies, in a failure of […]
The DOJ has failed to release any records regarding Wilbur Ross‘s misrepresentation of the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Decennial Census. This lack of transparency by the DOJ is indefensible considering an OIG investigation found that Ross provided false or misleading testimony before Congress in March 2018.
[…] positions, President Biden’s cabinet members should be able to avoid the types of conflicts of interest concerns that plagued several Trump cabinet members, including former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, and former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. In addition, President Biden’s cabinet members’ divestiture and recusal commitments […]
[…] never disclosed his liability to Michael Cohen for the controversial hush money payment made to Stormy Daniels. CREW may have never learned about former Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross’s discrepancies between the total value of his reported assets and information he previously disclosed publicly about the extent of his wealth, which led CREW to file […]
CREW has obtained the unreleased report from the Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General wherein they found that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross misrepresented the reasons for the proposed reinstatement of the citizenship question on the 2020 Census.
An investigation revealed Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross provided false testimony to Congress on the Census. The DOJ failed to prosecute him.
Former Trump Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross reported making a minimum of $53 to $127 million in outside income while in office.
[…] staff. Divestment measures are particularly important following abuses that plagued Trump, his nepotistic White House appointees – Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump – and cabinet members like Wilbur Ross, who, at the time of their appointments, were permitted by their ethics officers to retain investments in privately-held companies, even though there was little to no […]
[…] Mick Mulvaney, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Pompeo—defied subpoenas to appear before Congress or provide documents. In the examination of the reasoning behind certain census questions, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Attorney General William Barr refused to surrender critical documents to Congress. As a result of this refusal, the House found both Ross and Barr to […]
[…] opens the door to ethics violations or conflicts of interest. This is not just a hypothetical danger. The Office of Government Ethics refused to certify Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ 2018 financial disclosure report due to misreporting of stock holdings, putting Ross in violation of his ethics agreement. Facing scrutiny, Secretary Ross made a statement in […]
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