A senior Trump administration official misused his office for private gain by capitalizing on his government connections to help get a family member hired at the Environmental Protection Agency, investigators said in a report obtained by AP.
FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2010, file photo, then-Secretary of Natural Resources-designate Doug Domenech speaks during a news conference in Richmond, Va. A senior Trump administration official misused his office for private gain by capitalizing on his government connections to help get a family member hired at the Environmental Protection Agency, investigators said.
The Interior Department’s Inspector General found that Assistant Interior Secretary Douglas Domenech reached out to a senior EPA official in person and later by email in 2017 to advocate for Domenech’s son-in-law when he was seeking a job at the agency. The son-in-law was not named or otherwise identified in the report, but two persons familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak about it publicly identified his relation to Domenech. The son-in-law was referred to in the report as “family member 1.”
“When asked if moving the process along was a way to influence the EPA hiring process, Domenech said, ‘Well, when I think of influencing ... I guess you’re right. I was trying to influence the process to move along. That’s different than influencing the process to hire,’” the report said. “The underlying events regarding Mr. Domenech occurred in 2017 before the Department initiated an unprecedented effort to invest in building a culture of ethical compliance and dramatically expanding the Department of the Interior’s Ethics Office Program, which has resulted in tripling the number of career ethics officials within the Department,” Goodwin said.
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