JARED KUSHNER’S OFFICE SUED FOR LACKING TRANSPARENCY ON INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN ‘RIPE FOR CRONYISM,’ COMPLAINANT SAYS
By Jessica Kwong , Newsweek, Feb. 16, 2018
The Office of American Innovation, led by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, has been sued for allegedly attempting to skirt federal transparency laws while shaping the administration’s infrastructure policy.
The nonprofits Democracy Forward and Food & Water Watch filed the lawsuit Thursday after the Kushner-led office “ignored” Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The organizations made FOIA requests to see whether policy-making was being improperly influenced by conflicts of interest within the Trump administration, Food & Water Watch senior staff attorney Zachary Corrigan told Newsweek.
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