White House ethics lawyer Stefan Passantino leaving administration

[babylonsister]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-ethics-lawyer-stefan-passantino-leaving-administration-n905031

White House ethics lawyer Stefan Passantino leaving administration
Passantino is just the latest lawyer to depart the Trump White House.
by Adam Edelman / Aug.30.2018 / 7:08 AM ET


White House ethics lawyer Stefan Passantino is leaving the Trump administration, a senior White House official told NBC News Thursday.

His last day is Friday.

Passantino — who had been in charge of making sure White House officials complied with government ethics rules — had helped several White House officials deal with a number of ethics controversies, including a notorious March 2017 incident when Kellyanne Conway, a counselor to President Donald Trump, plugged the clothing line of Ivanka Trump on national television.

Passantino is just the latest lawyer to depart the Trump White House.

A day earlier, Trump announced that White House counsel Don McGahn, who cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, would be leaving his job in the fall.

Their departures add the growing exodus of administration officials who have left the White House — a record-setting turnover for a presidential administration.

[kimbutgar]

1. It will be a matter of time when putin has his own White House role and office

If he already doesn’t!

[LonePirate]

2. This White House had an ethics lawyer?

[NewJeffCT]

5. Yes

to tell them how to get around or avoid those pesky ethics laws

[smirkymonkey]

6. Yes, they kept him tied up and locked in the basement.

Never heard of the guy until just now.

[Sneederbunk]

3. Often compared his job to being staff psychiatrist for ISIS.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Apparently there are no ethics to administrate

[redstatebluegirl]

7. Wow they had an ethics lawyer?

That job must be like rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic.