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Thegardenisland.com
March 22, 2018
We will continue our ongoing representation of the President and our cooperation with the Office of Special Counsel,” said a statement from Jay Sekulow, one of the president's other lawyers. Dowd recently generated controversy by suggesting that the Department of Justice should end its investigation intoÃâà...
Houston Public Media
March 22, 2018
We will continue our ongoing representation of the President and our cooperation with the Office of Special Counsel,” Sekulow said. This is at least the second major reshuffling of Trump's legal team in the last year. Dowd had taken over the lead lawyer role last summer from New York attorney MarcÃâà...
WTVA
March 22, 2018
We will continue our ongoing representation of the President and our cooperation with the Office of Special Counsel," Sekulow said. This is at least the second major reshuffling of Trump's legal team in the last year. Dowd had taken over the lead lawyer role last summer from New York attorney MarcÃâà...
New York Times
March 22, 2018
WASHINGTON — The president's lead lawyer for the special counsel investigation, John Dowd, resigned on Thursday, according to two people briefed on the matter, days after the president called for an end to the inquiry. Mr. Dowd, who took over the president's legal team last summer, had consideredÃâà...
Politico
March 17, 2018
In addition to the Justice Department's inspector general, McCabe faces an Office of Special Counsel review into whether he violated a law prohibiting government officials from engaging in campaign activity. Among the issues under the inspector general's purview was whether McCabe himself “shouldÃâà...
RollingStone.com
March 16, 2018
Yesterday, the same day that the sanctions were unveiled, The New York Times reported a blockbuster story that Mueller has subpoenaed the Trump Organization's financial and business records related to Russia, a sign that the Office of Special Counsel is delving deep into Trump's tangle of ties toÃâà...
GovExec.com
March 15, 2018
Officials to whom an aspiring whistleblower may disclose allegations, the IG reiterated, include the supervisor in the direct chain of command, the IG, the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility, the FBI's inspection division, Congress, the Office of Special Counsel, or any employee designated by the aboveÃâà...
Government Accountability Office
March 13, 2018
According to available information and officials of the Department of Justice (Justice) and the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), since fiscal year 2008, no court orders have been issued that required OSC to initiate a proceeding to determine whether disciplinary action should be taken against federal agencyÃâà...
Futurism
March 8, 2018
This disparity recently came to light thanks to an email, sent by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), reminding government employees that their social media actions are limited — both at work and even on their own time. Government social media policies. Image Credit: The U.S. Office of SpecialÃâà...
The Highland County Press
March 7, 2018
“The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) received complaints in November and December 2017 alleging that counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act by engaging in political activity while participating in official interviews with Fox News's 'Fox & Friends' and CNN's 'New Day.'
CNN
March 6, 2018
"At the time he answered this question, Mr. O'Rielly was appearing in his official capacity and promoting a political candidate who has already filed election paperwork," the senators wrote to the Office of Special Counsel and the FCC inspector general. (The Office of Special Counsel is responsible forÃâà...
Axios
March 6, 2018
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel — separate to the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller — has found that Trump aide Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act. The OSC says that Conway "impermissibly mixed official government business with political views about candidates in the Alabama specialÃâà...
CNN
March 6, 2018
Conway went on to tell Cuomo that Jones is "out of step for Alabama voters, according to the President," and that Trump "doesn't want a liberal Democrat representing Alabama in the United States Senate." The Office of Special Counsel is unrelated to the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller,Ãâà...
KOSU
March 5, 2018
Kaplan, the lawyer for Foster, said the Office of Special Counsel could determine whether it will move forward and investigate Foster's complaint as early as next week. The special counsel is separate from the Justice Department counsel investigating contacts between Russian officials and the TrumpÃâà...
Slate Magazine
March 5, 2018
So it is at this point a series of indicted cases, among other things. If you fired Mueller but didn't get rid of his office, there would still be an office of special counsel that would then lack a head, and somebody would presumably be sort of acting in that capacity, and maybe you'd have to appoint another one.
Washington Examiner
March 5, 2018
Sam Nunberg, a former aide to the Trump campaign, will refuse to appear before a federal grand jury as part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, according to a report. Nunberg received a grand jury subpoena from the office of special counsel Robert Mueller requesting him toÃâà...
CNN
March 5, 2018
The Office of Special Counsel is the federal agency responsible for enforcing the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from engaging in politics while on the job, in uniform, or using government resources. It released a new set of guidelines Monday that advises federal employees on what they canÃâà...
GovExec.com
March 2, 2018
Helen Foster, erstwhile HUD chief administration officer, filed a whistleblower retaliation claim with the Office of Special Counsel, alleging she was demoted for raising concerns about the price tag of the office improvements. HUD chief Ben Carson spent $31,000 on a dining set in his office, including thisÃâà...
Miami Herald
March 1, 2018
On Wednesday the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal investigative agency, called the VA's findings “unreasonable” and expressed “incredulity” that the Miami VAMC complied with new HIV testing policy only after the employee complained to outside agencies. In a letter to PresidentÃâà...
FederalNewsRadio.com
March 1, 2018
The ninth circuit sided with the Office of Special Counsel, which had filed a friend-of-the-court brief, supporting a whistleblower whose retaliation case had been barred by the Merit Systems Protection Board. Civilian Michael Johnen claimed he'd been wrongfully fired by the Army for disclosing nepotism.
Island Packet
March 1, 2018
On Wednesday the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal investigative agency, called the VA's findings “unreasonable” and expressed “incredulity” that the Miami VAMC complied with new HIV testing policy only after the employee complained to outside agencies. In a letter to PresidentÃâà...
New York Times
March 1, 2018
Mr. Gowdy is also requesting a formal response to an ethics complaint to the federal Office of Special Counsel, made by HUD's former chief of administration, Helen G. Foster, the whistle-blower alleging that Mrs. Carson enlisted her help in circumventing the spending cap through an intermediary.
FederalNewsRadio.com
March 1, 2018
These statements therefore appear to violate the Hatch Act. Office of Special Counsel policy states that 'the Hatch Act does prohibit federal employees, while on duty or in the workplace, from expressly advocating for or against [Trump's] reelection in 2020.' It would defy logic to argue that the comments atÃâà...
NBCNews.com
February 28, 2018
NBC News reached out to Trump's legal team and the White House. The White House declined to comment on Scavino "out of respect for the Office of Special Counsel and its process. ... The White House remains fully cooperative with the Office of Special Counsel and we look forward to [the investigation's]Ãâà...
CNN
February 27, 2018
Foster's sworn complaint with the Office of Special Counsel, the independent agency charged with investigating whistleblower complaints made by government employees, says that after she refused to misuse taxpayer dollars for the office redecoration project she was "retaliated against by being taken outÃâà...
The Mercury
February 20, 2018
A reporter raises her hands to ask a question of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, after he announced that the office of special counsel Robert Mueller says a grand jury has charged 13 Russian nationals and several Russian entities, Friday in Washington. The defendants are accused of violatingÃâà...
AZCentral.com
February 13, 2018
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel released guidelines for social media use in accordance with the Hatch Act on Tuesday. The guidelines detail what federal employees can and cannot post on social mediaduring and outside their work hours. The Hatch Act is a federal law that prohibits federal governmentÃâà...
The Fayetteville Observer
February 6, 2018
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel is urging the Army to reconsider its initial rejection to discipline a supervisor at Womack Army Medical Center for retaliating against an employee who reported issues with infection control to a higher authority that led to a stand-down of hospital operations in 2014.
New York Times
December 31, 1999
The Office of Special Counsel, the federal agency which enforces the Hatch Act, has an email inbox and telephone hotline devoted to fielding complaints, and, according to one official, has heard about more potential violations since Mr. Trump was sworn in than is typical, particularly three years before aÃâà...
FederalNewsRadio.com
December 31, 1999
A new law and recent activities from agency leaders have prompted the Office of Special Counsel to update several key pieces of guidance on federal whistleblowing activities. In a series of recent memos from U.S. Special Counsel Henry Kerner, OSC reiterated a common reminder to agency leaders:Ãâà...
BuzzFeed News
December 31, 1999
The Department of Energy has taken down posters with the slogan “every leak makes us weak,” responding to an investigation by the Office of Special Counsel. The anti-leaking posters were put up on the walls of the Energy Department headquarters in Washington, DC, last year under President Trump,Ãâà...
