Facing ethics violation, Wilbur Ross says he didn't mean to file inaccurate financial disclosures
The man must have lawyers to do his disclosures. Why lie??
Facing ethics violation, Wilbur Ross says he didn’t mean to file inaccurate financial disclosures
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/20/facing-ethics-violation-wilbur-ross-says-he-didnt-mean-file-inaccurate-financial-disclosures/?utm_term=.00177a13ce2c
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross meets with Chinese officials at the White House on Jan. 30. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
By Reis Thebault
February 19 at 10:51 PM
The U.S. government’s top ethics watchdog has ruled that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross violated his ethics agreement by inaccurately reporting stock holdings in his 2018 financial disclosure form.
Ross — one of the wealthiest members of President Trump’s Cabinet — did not sell stock he held in a bank despite reporting otherwise, said Emory Rounds, director of the Office of Government Ethics.
“Therefore, OGE is declining to certify Secretary Ross’s 2018 financial disclosure report,” Rounds wrote in a letter dated Feb. 15, “because that report was not accurate and he was not in compliance with his ethics agreement at the time of the report.”
Observers called the move highly unusual, and one told CNN that the office’s decision amounted to “a pretty giant red flag.” Richard Painter, an ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, told the outlet that he has never seen a Cabinet member’s disclosure form rejected in this way...........................................
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that dirty pipe in my purse when I was pulled over 15 years ago. Oopsies! 
What ever happened to personal responsibility?? I thought R's used to claim it was one of their party's cherished values.
Pffft.
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