U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao is the target of a new investigation by House Democrats who are trying to determine whether the powerful member of Trump’s cabinet, and the wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, has abused her position in order to provide financial or other benefits to members of her family and herself.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), who chairs the subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, sent a joint letter (pdf) to Chao on Monday requesting documents and explaining the nature of their probe.
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“The Committee,” Cummings and Krishnamoorthi wrote, “is examining your misstatements of fact, your actions that may have benefited the company in which you continued to hold shares, and your compliance with ethics and financial disclosure requirements.” The letter cites specific incidents and “troubling questions about whether you are using office to benefit yourself and your family.”
According to a statement from the Oversight Committee:
In addition to questions about Foremost, Chao also came under fire earlier this year when it was revealed she had failed to divest from Vulcan, a major asphalt company that, as Common Dreams reported in May, clearly presented the appearance of a conflict of interest.
As The Hill reports Monday:
A spokeperson from Chao’s office at the Transportation Department dismissed the accusation of corruption as “media attacks,” but said the department would cooperate with the request for documents.