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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTop EPA officials are working for private companies on the side
Top EPA officials are working for private companies on the side
Obama's "ethics czar" describes decision by EPA to allow outside work as "insane."
Mark Hand
Mar 6, 2018, 12:06 pm
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is giving top officials permission to moonlight for private companies in their off-time, a practice that could conflict with their official duties at the federal agency.
Two of the most prominent EPA officials currently under scrutiny are John Konkus, who serves as the EPAs deputy associate administrator for the Office of Public Affairs, and Patrick Davis, an EPA senior adviser.
Konkus received approval from ethics officials at the EPA to work outside the agency as a media consultant. He was approved to advise clients on strategy, mail and media production, according to an ethics form signed last August, E&E News reported Monday. The EPA is refusing to disclose Konkuss clients, raising more questions about potential conflicts of interest with his official and outside work.
Prior to joining the Trump administration, Konkus worked as an executive with Jamestown Associates, a political consulting firm. According to the firms website, Konkus worked on the ground tirelessly to help President Trump win Florida.
Davis, a top official in the EPAs Denver office and former director of Trumps presidential campaign in Colorado, was given approval in February 2017 to work as the sales director for Telephone Town Hall Meeting, which does outreach for legislators and political campaigns.
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https://thinkprogress.org/epa-officials-moonlight-f71f3c6a3af5/
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Top EPA officials are working for private companies on the side (Original Post)
babylonsister
Mar 2018
OP
This is the dysfunction and madness that 60 million American citizens say they want.
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2018
#1
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)1. This is the dysfunction and madness that 60 million American citizens say they want.
They WANT this.
Cant turn the corner until that changes.
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)2. Didn't people do this all the time under previous administrations?
enough
(13,256 posts)3. There oughtta be a law. NT