Elaine Chao Used Cabinet Office For Personal Gain, Inspector General Finds
The potential ethics violations were sent last year to the Justice Department, which declined to investigate Trump's transportation secretary.
An internal watchdog found evidence that Elaine Chao committed potential ethics violations while serving as transportation secretary under President Donald Trump, but the Justice Department declined to open an investigation.
Evidence collected by the Department of Transportation’s inspector general found that Chao had used her taxpayer-funded staff and office to do various personal tasks, as well as to help promote her wealthy family’s shipping business and sales of her father’s biography, according to the IG report released on Wednesday.