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Russ Choma and Andy Kroll, Mother Jones
Tue, 03/21/2017 - 4:46am

The Trump Organization Says It's Vetting Deals for Conflicts—But Refuses to Say How

The week after Donald Trump's inauguration, as questions swirled about the ethics ramifications of his refusal to divest from his business holdings, the Trump Organization announced that it had created a system for vetting new deals that could benefit the president. The company said it had tapped George Sorial, a Trump Organization executive, to be chief compliance counsel and Bobby Burchfield, a Washington-based corporate lawyer, to serve as an outside ethics adviser who would scrutinize new Trump company transactions for potential conflicts of interest.

 

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