Biden’s Labor Department sued over records on officials who may have ‘conflicts of interest’

Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner

A watchdog group is suing President Joe Biden‘s Labor Department over its alleged failure to release records that could show whether senior government officials have “conflicts of interest.”

Through the Freedom of Information Act, Protect the Public’s Trust requested in January that the Labor Department turn over documents related to political appointees receiving waivers to skirt federal ethics laws. Now, the watchdog is suing the agency, which has not provided records and taken longer than the 250-day statutory period to make a FOIA determination, according to an Oct. 10 complaint obtained by the Washington Examiner.

“The American public deserves to be aware of the potential conflicts of interest that exist among officials making the policy decisions that affect their daily lives, things such as inflation, energy, healthcare,” PPT Director Michael ChamA watchdog group is suing President Joe Biden‘s Labor Department over its alleged failure to release records that could show whether senior government officials have “conflicts of interest.”bA watchdog group is suing President Joe Biden‘s Labor Department over its alleged failure to release records that could show whether senior government officials have “conflicts of interest.”erlain told the Washington Examiner. “The majority of the waivers to ethics restrictions that Protect the Public’s Trust has uncovered have been obtained in response to Freedom of Information Act requests, and often only after we’ve been forced to go to court to get them.”

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