Tag: U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke

Canegata, Not Running For Any Office, Takes Credit For Federal Response To Disasters

FREDERIKSTED — The top GOP official in the Virgin Islands suggested his fundraising group’s “behind the scenes” relationship with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke helped influence the department’s response to last year’s hurricanes in the territory. John Canegata, the head of the Virgin Islands Republican Party, said he had direct access to Interior officials after the […]

Government Watchdog Group Asks FEC To Investigate Interior Secretary Zinke’s Travel To Virgin Islands Fundraiser

WASHINGTON — The Campaign Legal Center, a watchdog group, has asked the Federal Election Commission to probe Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s visit to a Virgin Islands fundraiser, Politico reports, and is also urging the department’s inspector general to investigate a “pattern of violations” of ethics regulations. “In his short time in office, Secretary Zinke’s boundary-pushing — and, apparently, boundary-crossing […]