Reports & Investigations - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

Investigations

Corruption

Clients of Trump-tied lobbying firm Ballard Partners keep spending at Trump properties

Ballard Partners has a longstanding relationship with Trump that attracts a high-profile companies and foreign leaders, and their clients spend heavily at Trump properties.

Investigations

Transparency

Termination disclosures improperly omitted post-White House plans and income

Despite omissions, ethics officials within the White House certified all but one of these seven incomplete termination reports for staffers leaving the administration.

Investigations

Corruption

Ethics watchdog refused to certify Pruitt financial disclosure over condo deal

Office of Government Ethics declined to certify former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s financial disclosure report for 2017, citing a controversial condo deal.

Investigations

Money In Politics

Jeb Bush’s other shady campaign finance scheme

Right to Rise spent hundreds of thousands of dollars during the 2016 campaign, but concealed their activity by routing the spending through at least one other group.

FOIA Requests

Transparency

CREW requests documents on Bernhardt’s former lobbying clients

CREW requested Bernhardt’s communications with Halliburton Energy Services and MGM, the clients involved in Interior IG investigations into Ryan Zinke.

FOIA Requests

Transparency

CREW requested records on Pompeo religious freedom call

These records will shed light on whether the State Department is cutting off access to the press based on religion, especially when supposedly briefing about religious freedom.

Clients of Trump-tied lobbying firm Ballard Partners keep spending at Trump properties

Termination disclosures improperly omitted post-White House plans and income

Ethics watchdog refused to certify Pruitt financial disclosure over condo deal

Jeb Bush’s other shady campaign finance scheme

CREW requests documents on Bernhardt’s former lobbying clients

CREW requested records on Pompeo religious freedom call

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