13 days ago, I noted that the Trump administration had waived the criminal conflict of interest statute for 3 SpaceX employees whom Musk had placed at the FAA ...
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It's this criminal prohibition on conflicts of interest that likely prompted the Trump administration to grant a conflict of interest waiver on Feb. 19 to Malaska & 2 other SpaceX employees whom Musk placed at the FAA, as revealed on the OGE website:
www.oge.gov/web/OGE.nsf/...
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It's this criminal prohibition on conflicts of interest that likely prompted the Trump administration to grant a conflict of interest waiver on Feb. 19 to Malaska & 2 other SpaceX employees whom Musk placed at the FAA, as revealed on the OGE website:
www.oge.gov/web/OGE.nsf/...
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Anyone? Anyone?
Factual basis? Thought not.
The statute allows the govt to waive the conflict if the conflicting "interest is not so substantial as to be deemed likely to affect the integrity of the" employee's services
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Please take action!
Contact your members of Congress & try to get them mobilized to oppose this corruption.
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In connection with @ericlipton.nytimes.com's important article this morning:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/us/politics/spacex-contracts-musk-doge-trump.html
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https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/145907425b2509be/191a2276-full.pdf#page=13
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The 3 waivers to the SpaceX employees working at the FAA -- Brady Glantz, Theodore Malaska & Thomas Kiernan -- are essentially identical, each indicating that they "will be a temporary FAA Special Government Employee (SGE) for four days while continuing your employment with SpaceX."
4 days
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A 4th document, dated 4 days later, grants a "continuation of" Malaska's earlier 4-day waiver, asserting that
"the FAA has identified a plan to address improvements in its air traffic control systems which necessitates your continued service on the temporary appointment to the FAA."
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Each waiver asserts that the FAA hired this SpaceX employee "on a temporary basis as an SGE to conduct a review of FAA technology"
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raising the question:
Why would SpaceX employees be the best people to conduct such a review?
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