A citizens watchdog group has submitted a problem with the FBI demanding an examination into hundreds of thousands of dollars in pharmaceutical and medical company stock held by Vice President Mike Pence‘s chief of personnel.
Marc Short is playing a “prominent function” in the federal response to COVID-19 even as he stands to get from financial investments in the very business that may be associated with government contracts, according to Citizens for Duty and Principles in Washington
” There is factor to believe he may have violated” the primary federal conflict-of-interest law by “getting involved personally and significantly in specific matters affecting companies in which he holds stock,” said a letter from TEAM sent to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday.
NPR reported last month that Short owns between $506,043 and $1.64 million worth of stocks in companies doing work related to the Trump administration’s pandemic response. Short even stated some of his holdings a possible conflict of interest after joining Pence’s workplace last year, however he did not sell them after he was denied a capital gains tax break in the event of a sale.
Short has actually claimed he is skirting conflict of interest concerns by recusing himself from particular matters that might bolster his investments. TEAM wrote Wray that the “breadth of his financial investment portfolio casts serious doubt as to whether recusal is possible.”
The White Home press office reported e