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Donald Trump Jr. Pushed ‘Blatantly Illegal’ Project In India, Former Official Says — ‘Trump, Inc.’ Podcast

The following article by Eric Umansky of ProPublica and Andrea Bernstein of WNYC was posted on the ProPublica website March 21, 2018:

A Trump project in Mumbai had its permits revoked after investigators found “significant irregularities.” Then Trump Jr. travelled to India to get the decision overruled.

Donald Trump Jr. stands in front of Trump Towers Pune in Pune, India. The Trumps’ first India project, in Mumbai, was halted in early 2012 after investigators found significant “irregularities.” Credit: STR via AP Photo)

Last month, Donald Trump Jr. visited India to tout new Trump properties. Full page ads in India’s top papers announced, “Trump has arrived. Have you?”

It wasn’t Trump Jr.’s first trip to India. “I’ve been coming to India for over a decade,” he said during his visit last month. “There’s an entrepreneurial spirit here … it needs no further explanation.”

This week on “Trump, Inc.,” we’re looking at the Trumps’ yearslong work in India, where corruption in the real estate industry is endemic. Continue reading “Donald Trump Jr. Pushed ‘Blatantly Illegal’ Project In India, Former Official Says — ‘Trump, Inc.’ Podcast”

‘Using his position for private gain’: Ben Carson was warned he might run afoul of ethics rules by enlisting his son

The following article by Juliet Eilperin and Jack Gillum was posted on the Washington Post website January 31, 2018:

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, accompanied by his wife, Candy Carson, left, conducts a listening tour in Baltimore last June. (Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Public Affairs)

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson allowed his son to help organize an agency “listening tour” in Baltimore last summer despite warnings from department lawyers that doing so risked violating federal ethics rules, according to internal documents and people familiar with the matter.

Career officials and political appointees raised concerns days before the visit that Carson’s son, local businessman Ben Carson Jr., and daughter-in-law were inviting people with whom they potentially had business dealings, the documents show.

Carson Jr. put people he’d invited in touch with his father’s deputies, joined agency staff on official conference calls about the listening tour and copied his wife on related email exchanges, according to emails. Continue reading “‘Using his position for private gain’: Ben Carson was warned he might run afoul of ethics rules by enlisting his son”