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yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts)
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 07:06 PM Mar 2020

Ethics Watchdog: Jared Kushner's 'Shadow' COVID-19 Task Force Appears to Violate at Least Two Laws



In addition to being tasked with negotiating a Middle East peace plan, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner earlier this month formed his own task force to assist the administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Kushner “shadow taskforce”–comprised of government officials and private sector advisors–is primarily focused on expanding access to coronavirus testing, but has the coalition been violating federal laws aimed at ensuring government transparency and accountability?

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) said as much on Friday. According to the group, Kushner’s team, which exists independent of the Trump administration’s official coronavirus task force headed up by Vice President Mike Pence, appears to be in violation of the Presidential Records Act (PRA) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA).

“Mr. Kushner’s shadow task force appears to be violating key aspects of the PRA, and his use of it implicates the FACA’s public transparency provisions,”

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Ethics Watchdog: Jared Kushner's 'Shadow' COVID-19 Task Force Appears to Violate at Least Two Laws (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Mar 2020 OP
Lying. Cheating. Grifting. What a family! nt procon Mar 2020 #1
I'm shocked! Shocked... pat_k Mar 2020 #2
isn't he just there KT2000 Mar 2020 #3
I'm thankful for CREW and all they do for me and you! abqtommy Mar 2020 #4
God, he is such a fucking creep. smirkymonkey Mar 2020 #5

KT2000

(20,544 posts)
3. isn't he just there
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 08:06 PM
Mar 2020

to get a cut of the money being transacted over supplies? I thought for sure that was his job.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
5. God, he is such a fucking creep.
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 10:08 PM
Mar 2020

He really is one of the creepiest people I have ever seen in my life. There is something about him that sends chills down my spine. In a bad way.

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