Criminal Charges
Michael D. Cohen
Trump’s former longtime personal lawyer
paid
$130,000
to
says he made
the payments
at the direction of
negotiated
payment
between
Stephanie
Clifford
Karen
McDougal
The
National
Enquirer
to cover
up an
alleged
affair with
to cover
up an
alleged
affair with
whose
chief
executive
is
David J.
Pecker
Donald J.
Trump
who is a
longtime
friend
of
→ Pleaded guilty to tax evasion, bank fraud and violating campaign finance laws by paying off two women who said they had had affairs with Mr. Trump in exchange for their silence. Mr. Cohen’s charges stemmed from evidence originally found by the special counsel’s inquiry.»
Paul J. Manafort
Former Trump campaign chairman
was convicted of financial fraud related to
was business partners with
was the campaign chairman for
more than $30 million in overseas income that he received to promote
who also
lobbied for
who also worked for the campaign of
who is cooperating with
Viktor F. Yanukovych
pro-Russian former president of Ukraine
Robert S. Mueller III
special counsel
who is investigating
the campaign of
George Papadopoulos
2016 Trump campaign foreign policy adviser
was told by a London professor that Russia had “dirt” on
Hillary Clinton
and he relayed the information to
an Australian
diplomat
and it was later passed along to
American
officials
to open an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election
→ Pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I.»
Rick Gates
Former Trump deputy campaign chairman
was a longtime business associate of
was deputy campaign chairman and then deputy chairman of inaugural committee for
who was campaign chairman for
Donald J.
Trump
→ Pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering, tax evasion and bank fraud.»
Michael T. Flynn
Trump’s first national security adviser
contacted about President Obama’s new Russia sanctions by
Sergey I.
Kislyak
and then called a senior
official on
Mr. Flynn relayed that information back to
Trump
Transition
Team
who stressed to Mr. Flynn that the team did not want Russia to escalate
→ Pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. about conversations he had with Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, during Mr. Trump’s presidential transition.»
Cabinet Officials Who
Misspent Taxpayer Dollars
or Violated Ethics Rules
Some misconduct forced officials to resign while other offenses were less serious.
Scott Pruitt
Former Environmental Protection Agency administrator
→ Resigned under a cloud of ethics scandals, including alleged spending abuses, cozy relationships with lobbyists and enlisting aides to obtain special favors for him and his family.»
Ben Carson
Housing and urban development secretary
→ Forced to cancel an order for $31,000 in furniture for his office, which was above the limit imposed on cabinet secretaries for redecorating their offices. He blamed his wife and staff for ordering the furniture before finally admitting he was involved in the decision.»
David J. Shulkin
Former veterans affairs secretary
→ Used taxpayer dollars to pay for his wife to go on an official trip to Europe with him, spent a good part of the trip sightseeing and improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets as a gift, according to the Department of Veteran Affairs’s inspector general.»
Wilbur Ross
Commerce secretary
→ Faulted by the Office of Government Ethics for continuing to maintain investments he was required to divest and entering into new ones.»
Tom Price
Former health and human services secretary
→ Forced to resign after repeatedly violating government travel rules and wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars by using chartered jets and military aircraft.»
Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald
Former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
→ Resigned after buying shares in a tobacco company one month into her tenure as the nation’s top public health official.»
Nikki R. Haley
American ambassador to the United Nations
→ Violated the Hatch Act, according to the Office of Special Counsel, by retweeting Mr. Trump’s endorsement of a Republican congressional candidate. The law prohibits federal employees from engaging in government-funded political activity.»
White House Staff With
Security or Ethics Issues
Rob Porter
Former White House staff secretary
→ Forced to resign after domestic abuse accusations.»
Dan Scavino Jr.
White House social media director
→ Violated the Hatch Act, according to the Office of Special Counsel, by posting a political message on a Twitter account that included a photo of him in the White House and identified him as a federal employee.»
Kellyanne Conway
President’s counselor
→ Violated ethics rules, according to the Office of Government Ethics, by endorsing Ivanka Trump’s product line during an interview to Fox News from the White House briefing room.»
→ Violated the Hatch Act twice by advocating for and against candidates in the December 2017 Alabama special election for United States Senate, according to the Office of Special Counsel.»
John McEntee
President’s former personal assistant
→ Escorted from the White House and forced to resign after an investigation into his finances caused his security clearance to be revoked. »