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CatWoman

(80,335 posts) Thu Aug 30, 2018, 02:32 PM Aug 2018

The White House has an Ethics Lawyer??? [View all]

White House ethics lawyer Stefan Passantino leaving administration

White House ethics lawyer Stefan Passantino is leaving the Trump administration, a senior White House official told NBC News on 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 in which Kellyanne Conway, a counselor to President Donald Trump, plugged the clothing line of the president's daughter, Ivanka Trump, on national television.

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

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

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The White House has an Ethics Lawyer??? [View all] CatWoman Aug 2018 OP

Not that anyone would notice. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2018 #1

If they were written, how could Trump be expected to read them? eom guillaumeb Aug 2018 #3

He also heads the Department of Irony. eom guillaumeb Aug 2018 #2

To be truthful an ethics lawyer isn't needed in a White House that Autumn Aug 2018 #4

Who knew? C_U_L8R Aug 2018 #5

they moved his office to the basement 0rganism Aug 2018 #6

They have the lawyer, but no ethics DeminPennswoods Aug 2018 #7

Teats on a boar Bob Loblaw Aug 2018 #8

Mildly surprised he's alive gratuitous Aug 2018 #9

They absolutely do have an ethics lawyer sdfernando Aug 2018 #10

Ha malaise Aug 2018 #11

As vocal a critic of Trump as he is pecosbob Aug 2018 #12

To be fair to Painter, he worked in the Bush admin only for the two years The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2018 #13

You are of course correct and I was out of line criticizing him by inference pecosbob Aug 2018 #14