The hockey team is owned by Bill Foley, a top donor of Mr. Zinke’s.
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Zinke is one of many Trump officials entangled in controversy over the use of govt funds. A report released today questions his decision to use $12,000 in taxpayer $ to pay for a charter flight from a dinner with a hockey team to a mtg w Western governors.https://nyti.ms/2qD4RKM
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The report said that a govt ethics team approved the trip only because it had incomplete information from Mr. Zinke’s staff.
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His staff apparently failed to mention the cost of the flight, the fact that the team’s owner had funded Mr. Zinke’s campaigns, and the fact that the secretary’s speech to hockey players would not mention the Department of the Interior.
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“If ethics officials had known Zinke’s speech would have no nexus to the DOI,” the report says, “they likely would not have approved this as an official event.”
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Zinke’s pep-talk must have worked because
@GoldenKnights are now the most successful first-year expansion team in the history of sports! Ha https://ftw.usatoday.com/2018/04/nhl-playoffs-vegas-golden-knights-why-root-for-them-bandwagon-vegas-flu-greatest-expansion-team …pic.twitter.com/9yq6kLhx5C
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It would be beneficial to know "who in the GOP has realized a PECUNIARY ADVANTAGE from 'opening up public lands' for Natural Gas extraction in the U.S.," i.e., despite the devastating ENVIRONMENTAL/GLOBAL WARMNG CONSEQUENCES thereto.
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