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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1030668)9/15/2017 7:31:36 PM
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Trump's Swamp Ethics Office: lobbyists can pay lawyers fees for WH staffers

As Bob Mueller’s investigation continues, the White House is quietly moving to make it easier for aides to raise money to hire attorneys.

The U.S. Office of Government Ethics has reversed an internal policy prohibiting lobbyists from giving anonymous donations to the legal defense funds of White House staffers. Politico reports:

At issue for the Trump staffers is a 1993 OGE guidance document that gave a green light to organizers of legal defense funds for government employees to solicit anonymous donations from otherwise prohibited sources—like lobbyists or others with business before the government. That Clinton-era opinion reasoned that if such donors were anonymous, such donations could be legal because the employee “does not know who the paymasters are.”

But former OGE officials say the ethics office quickly determined that guidance had flaws, and instead advised attorneys to stay away from all lobbyist donations, anonymous or not, as they arranged funds benefiting the Clintons and a cadre of senior White House aides.

Former OGE head Walter Schaub said the move was “depressing” and “unseemly,” provoking a prickly response from the White House.

“This is another example of Walter Schaub—who has no direct knowledge of anything the White House is doing or assisting with—trying to make himself feel relevant,” spokeswoman Lindsay Waters told Politico.

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