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Presidential scandals aren’t anything new in America, and they have plagued the country pretty much since its founding. There have been major and minor scandals during the administration of many, if not all the presidents. Here’s is list of the Top 10 presidential scandals you probably didn’t know about.
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18 U.S.C. § 208: Acts affecting a personal financial interest
18 U.S.C. § 208, the basic criminal conflict of interest statute, prohibits an executive branch employee from participating personally and substantially in a particular Government matter that will affect his own financial interests, as well as the financial interests of:
His spouse or minor child;
His general partner;
An organization in which he serves as an officer, director, trustee, general partner or employee; and
A person with whom he is negotiating for or has an arrangement concerning prospective employment.
Financial Interests in a Particular Matter
An employee has a disqualifying financial interest in a particular matter only if there is a close causal link between a particular Government matter in which the employee participates and any effect on the asset or other interest (direct effect) and if there is a real possibility of gain or loss as a result of development in or resolution of that matter (predictable effect). Gain or loss need not be probable. The possibility of a benefit or detriment must be real, not speculative. One common point of confusion is distinguishing between an asset or other interest and a financial interest in a particular matter under 18 U.S.C. § 208. The financial interest is the possibility of gain or loss (of the value of an asset or other interest) resulting from a particular matter, not the asset or interest itself. Thus, a person could have a large holding but only a relatively small financial interest in the particular matter, because the potential for gain or loss is small.
Exemptions
The criminal prohibition has no de minimis level. That is, it applies where any financial interest exists, no matter how small. Under 18 U.S.C. § 208(b)(2), however, OGE has the authority to establish blanket exemptions for financial interests considered too remote or too inconsequential to affect the integrity of the employee’s services. OGE has established several exemptions. The exemptions can be found in the implementing regulation for the statute, 5 C.F.R. part 2640. An employee who qualifies for an exemption can participate in official matters without violating 18 U.S.C. § 208, even though he has what would otherwise be a disqualifying financial interest in the matters. In addition to the exemptions established by OGE, there is an exception in the statute itself at 18 U.S.C. § 208(b)(4) for employees that have certain Native American or Alaska Native birthrights. If the financial interest that would be affected by the particular matter is that resulting solely from the interest of employee or the spouse or minor children in certain Native American or Alaska Native birthrights, the employee may participate in the particular matter without violating 18 U.S.C. § 208.
Waivers
The criminal financial conflict of interest statute has two separate waiver provisions. An employee who has been granted a waiver can participate in official matters without violating 18 U.S.C. § 208, even though he has what would otherwise be a disqualifying financial interest in the matters. Ethics officials often use waivers for broad particular matters, such as general policy matters, in conjunction with a recusal from particular matters involving specific parties for a specific financial interest. The two types of waivers are:
208(b)(1): A waiver issued by the employee’s agency that covers certain financial interests that are not so substantial as to affect the integrity of the employee’s services.
208(b)(3): A waiver for special government employees on Federal Advisory Committee Act committees when the need for services outweighs the potential for conflicts.
Amazing that our political representatives never bring up such federal policies/laws like Chris Viano has done here! But, that really doesn’t surprise me as all the “DP/DNC & RP/RNC” along with the congress, senate and white dof house never does anything!
You act as if you had a choice, voting is just to make the idiots believe they have a voice… It’s all rigged to put the corporations people in power
Voting doesn’t matter it’s been proven to be rigged. One of the guys that wrote the binary algorithm straight admits it’s fixed to put certain people into power and ignore votes
# 1 abbuzzerrrrrrrrrrr !
Obama
For those not keeping track…
“Remember when Trump said he was going to donate his salary? Well he just accepted his second paycheck.
Remember when he said Mexico was going to pay for the wall? He has asked Congress to appropriate the $25 billion of taxpayer money to cover costs.
Remember when he said he was going to divest from his businesses? He changed his mind.
Remember when he said he was going to release his tax returns? He changed his mind.
Remember when he said he wasn’t going to go on vacation or play golf? Five of the last seven weekends he went on vacation and played golf, costing taxpayers $11.1 million.
Remember when he said he was going to use American steel to build these dangerous pipelines? Russian steel arrived last week for the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Remember when he said would defeat ISIS in 30 days? He still hasn’t even presented a plan.
Remember when he said he was going to appropriate more money to Historically Black Colleges and Universities? He lied to get a photo-op.
Remember when he said he was going to drain the swamp of Washington insiders? His cabinet is filled with lobbyists, oil magnates and Wall Street executives.
Remember when he said that nobody on his campaign had any communications with Russian officials? Seven of his people have now admitted they spoke and/or met with Russian officials, after they lied and got caught.
Remember when he said that the Obamacare replacement would cover more people at lower cost? The AHCA will cover fewer people at a higher cost.
Poor old broken down tax evader
Did she ask them to trash another candidate with f**e news
.Trumps entire life has been about him and nothing else. From all reports he was a spoiled selfish child and never became a fully functional adult. He wives and children are only useful to him as long as they contribute to his inflated ego. Unfortunately for America he found out that there are 60 million people in this country that are just as selfish, self centered, and ignorant as he is.
Let see he is donating the check he received
The swamp also known as the most corrupt in Washington are screaming bloody murder and fabricating stories of contact with the Russians.
Of the 2 people who talked to Russians 1 has been fired and the other, had a meeting at a punch bowl at a public event, and as a Senator it is part of his job.
Pelosi was actually caught lying about meeting with the ambassador, and Obama was caught on tape promising greater concessions after he was elected. Clinton foundation was caught receiving millions of dollars for Hillary’s campaign from Saudi Arabia.
And Hillary got caught with known facts about her, nothing f**e