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Tuesday, March 26th, 2019

Trump’s acting Defense secretary under investigation for allegedly using his office to enrich Boeing

Author:     MATTHEW CHAPMAN
Source:     Salon
Publication Date:     MARCH 21, 2019 7:28PM (UTC)
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Stephan:   Another Trump high office appointee, this time the Acting Secretary of Defense, Patrick Shanahan, is under investigation for criminal behavior. I find this one of the most amazing stories about Trump and his administration, and am always surprised that few people seem to see it. In the whole of American history there has never been an administration with this percentage of people under either investigation, driven from office, or already convicted of criminal behavior. There are more new scandals every day in the Trump administration than the Obama administration over its eight years.

Patrick Shanahan, Acting Secretary of Defense

On Wednesday, POLITICO reported that Patrick Shanahan, President Donald Trump’s acting Secretary of Defense, is under investigation by the inspector general of the Pentagon for allegedly using his office to enrich aerospace giant Boeing, his former employer of 31 years:

“The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General has decided to investigate complaints we recently received that Acting Secretary Patrick Shanahan allegedly took actions to promote his former employer, Boeing, and disparage its competitors, allegedly in violation of ethics rules,” DoD IG spokesperson Dwrena Allen said.

“In his recent Senate Armed Services Committee testimony, Acting Secretary Shanahan stated that he supported an investigation into these allegations,” she said. “We have informed him that we have initiated this investigation.”

The investigation follows a complaint submitted last week by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), in response to a January POLITICO report revealing that Shanahan, when he was Deputy Defense Secretary, promoted Boeing in Pentagon meetings and criticized Lockheed Martin, the developer of the controversial […]

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1 Comment

  1. Will on Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 12:36 pm

    Corruption is so widespread that it is hardly news anymore. Paul Krugman in today’s NYT has a timely piece he calls “Trump’s Kakistocracy Is Also a Hackistocracy” about how the worst of the worst are in the highest level of government. Nothing sticks to his lordship and now that he cleared, so he believes, those who have spoken ill of the king will feel his wrath. Someday before I die I hope to live a day or two without reading or hearing the name trump.