{"id":1562969,"date":"2022-07-20T13:04:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T17:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1562969"},"modified":"2022-07-20T13:04:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T17:04:22","slug":"watchdog-files-complaint-after-wealthy-interior-secretary-haaland-reported-zero-assets-on-her-financial-disclosures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watchdog-files-complaint-after-wealthy-interior-secretary-haaland-reported-zero-assets-on-her-financial-disclosures\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog Files Complaint After Wealthy Interior Secretary Haaland Reported Zero Assets On Her Financial Disclosures"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatchdog-files-complaint-after-wealthy-interior-secretary-haaland-reported-zero-assets-on-her-financial-disclosures%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1562969&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland reported no assets on a <a href=\"https:\/\/protectpublicstrust.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Haaland-Debra-Anne-final278-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">financial disclosure form<\/a>, which may have violated reporting rules for executive appointees according to a new complaint with the inspector general. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the nonprofit government transparency group Protect the Public\u2019s Trust demanded an investigation into the secretary\u2019s financial filings from the independent agency watchdog. With a congressional salary of $174,000 in the two years preceding her appointment, combined with previous employment and a recent marriage to a millionaire, Haaland\u2019s reported assets at zero are suspect. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Biden administration is to live up to its promise to be the best ethical and most transparent in history, it would be prudent for Secretary Haaland to go above and beyond bare minimum reporting requirements,\u201d said Protect the Public\u2019s Trust Director Michael Chamberlain in a <a href=\"https:\/\/protectpublicstrust.org\/press-releases\/ig-complaint-interior-secretary-haalands-financial-disclosure-strains-credulity-potential-reporting-violations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Presidential appointees are not required to report income from federal employment, but they are obligated to disclose bank and investment accounts worth at least $5,000. Haaland failed to report any beyond an annual payment of $175 from the Pueblo of Laguna. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile there are many Americans in difficult financial straits who do not themselves have a bank account with at least $5,000, it is hard to imagine someone in Secretary Haaland\u2019s situation being among them, particularly given more recent filings showing she has been living with a millionaire for years,\u201d Chamberlain added. \u201cEven if she complied with the letter of the law in her required reporting, her disclosures hardly seem to reflect her true circumstances, and neither she nor the Department seemed anxious to clarify the record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s complaint is not the first Protect the Public\u2019s Trust has filed regarding officials in the Biden Interior Department. In April, the group <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/14\/complaint-interior-department-wont-release-documents-on-potential-ethics-violations-at-secretary-haalands-wedding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sought<\/a> a probe into potential ethics violations over gifts to the secretary at her New Mexico wedding in August. <\/p>\n<p>The group also filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/12\/watchdog-group-files-interior-ig-complaint-over-tracy-stone-mannings-apparent-lie-to-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complaint<\/a> over Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning\u2019s apparent lie to Congress when the director misled lawmakers about her role in a 1993 tree-spiking case. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. 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