Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo violated federal rules of ethics for the use of resources Department of State, financed by taxpayers.
Writes about it Politicoreferring to the report inspector general’s office US Department of State. In particular, the inspector attributed to the above violations personal requests from Pompeo and his wife to the employees of the department.
As noted, when preparing the report, e-mails, documents were analyzed, and employees were interviewed.
As a result, the department recorded more than a hundred cases when the Pompeo spouses asked State Department employees to complete personal tasks: for example, order a table for a private dinner, sign up for a beauty salon, pick up a dog, etc.
Wherein employees did not receive a separate payment for the execution of personal assignments. According to Pompeo himself, his requests were minor.
Mike Pompeo served as US Secretary of State from April 2018 to January 2021, under the presidency of Donald Trump. In March 2021, he announced that he could run for president in the 2024 elections if Trump did not participate.
As reported OBOZREVATEL, previously Mike Pompeo has come out openly against Russia and Vladimir Putin. According to him, the United States should treat Russia “like a communist China.”
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