. Once a month, she stops by CultureShift
to chat with a notable Detroiter. This month, she talks with Toni Porter, a multi-hyphenated entrepreneur and owner of Toni’s Collection, a scent company specializing in candles, mists and tarts for your home and car on Detroit’s west side.
As owner of Toni’s Collection, a scent company specializing in candles, mists and tarts for your home and car, Toni Porter has been on her entrepreneurial journey for nine years. Now, with her first brick and mortar, Porter joins a budding community of Black-owned businesses in Rosedale Park on Detroit’s west side.
WASHINGTON State Department employees were asked to prepare then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for political events in Kansas as he was flirting with a run for a U.S. Senate seat there in 2019, rankling government staff who saw the requests as ethics violations, according to a previously unreported whistleblower complaint and emails obtained by McClatchy. The documents provide fresh insight .
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife Susan wave as they board their plane to depart from Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport.
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WASHINGTON Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife, Susan Pompeo, repeatedly misused State Department resources and staff for personal business, violating the ethical standards of the department, according to a long-awaited inspector general’s report.
The report details over 100 instances of misconduct that “had no apparent connection to the official business of the Department.”
State Department watchdog: Pompeo repeatedly violated ethics rules
According an inspector general s probe, Mike Pompeo ignored the State Department s ethics rules. There s plenty for him to be embarrassed about.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a press conference at the State Department on March 25, 2020.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP - Getty Images file
April 19, 2021, 12:40 PM UTC
BySteve Benen
During his controversial tenure in the Trump administration, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo faced so many ethics controversies, it s been difficult to keep up with each of them. The Kansas Republican s ethics messes were so severe that last May late on a Friday night Donald Trump fired the State Department s inspector general at Pompeo s behest.
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