Interior Inspector General Opens Investigation Into Multiple Department Senior Executives

The inspector general opened the investigation after the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan ethics group, submitted a complaint to the office in February. The complaint named six senior executives in the department who continued to do some work or meet with people the executives for whom they had previously lobbied or worked. "We hope this investigation will answer whether these officials are working on behalf of the American people, or on behalf of the interests that used to pay their salary," said Delaney Marsco, Campaign Legal Center ethics counsel, in a statement.

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