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Gordon Hartogensis, is well known to some of Washington’s most politically influential: He is the brother-in-law of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. Chao’s sister, Grace, is married to Hartogensis.
Hartogensis was nominated to direct the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, a Labor Department agency that collects insurance premiums from sponsors of defined-benefit plans and pays out benefits when companies cannot meet their obligations.
Hartogensis declined to immediately comment when reached by phone Tuesday. His current position is managing his family’s trust, according to his LinkedIn page.
His nomination by Trump raised questions among government ethics experts on the selection process and vetting for Hartogensis, a nominee with no apparent public service experience or direct insight into the agency’s mission.
“The White House’s process for naming and vetting candidates is flawed,” Scott Amey, the general counsel for the Washington-based Project on Government Oversight, said Tuesday. “This seems to be another example of who you know rather than what you know.”
Like I've said, no one alive today has ever seen this level of corruption in Washington, D.C.
Amazing, how one person can speak for everyone they don't know on something they know even less about.
One of the biggest red flags of corruption is when no one is held accountable by those in power. Corruption ignored is the greater corruption. The last admin. stands out with their failure.
The worst of Mr. Obama’s bad appears to be having fostered corruption at the highest levels of the FBI, the Justice Department and, of course, the IRS. Considering facts recently revealed about the FBI and DOJ spying on the Trump campaign based on fraudulent dossiers and the subversion of the Clinton email investigation, it’s likely that Mr. Obama’s most prominent legacy is the institutionalization of Chicago-style corruption in Washington, D.C.
Wife is a cabinet secretary and brother in law gets a cushy government job while not having the necessary requirements. Mitch's family is doing quite well feeding at the trough. Given hiring ethics are near an all time low in DC with this administration, no one should be surprised.
Amazing, how one person can speak for everyone they don't know on something they know even less about.
One of the biggest red flags of corruption is when no one is held accountable by those in power. Corruption ignored is the greater corruption. The last admin. stands out with their failure.
The worst of Mr. Obama’s bad appears to be having fostered corruption at the highest levels of the FBI, the Justice Department and, of course, the IRS. Considering facts recently revealed about the FBI and DOJ spying on the Trump campaign based on fraudulent dossiers and the subversion of the Clinton email investigation, it’s likely that Mr. Obama’s most prominent legacy is the institutionalization of Chicago-style corruption in Washington, D.C.
It's a wonder Trump didn't appointment him to head the VA.
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