Ryan Zinke Under Investigation For Private Plane Use: Report
The Interior Department’s inspector general’s office has opened an investigation into Secretary Ryan Zinke’s use of taxpayer-funded private jets.
Another Trump administration official has found himself in hot water for his use of tax-payer private jets.
According to Politico, the inspector general’s office of the Interior Department has opened an investigation into Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke over his use of private jet travel.
The inspector general noted that it has “received numerous complaints” about the issue and that it opened the investigation last week.
and launched its investigation late last week, said Nancy K. DiPaolo, spokeswoman for Interior’s Office of the Inspector General.
Zinke is just the latest Trump administration official to come under fire for their use of expensive private jet travel. On Friday, Tom Price resigned after it was revealed that he spent over $1 million on private jet and military aircraft travel for dozens of flights.
“The secretary has flown on government-owned or -chartered aircraft several times this year, including one $12,000 trip from Las Vegas to an airport near his hometown in Montana and another trip in the Caribbean, as POLITICO reported last week,” the Politico report notes.
Zinke’s flight to Las Vegas has come under additional scrutiny because he was appearing at an event for a major GOP donor. Zinke gave a speech to a hockey team owned by at the major Republican donor who has contributed extensively to his previous congressional campaigns.
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