DOGE Aide Who Helped Gut CFPB Was Warned About Potential Conflicts of Interest

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Source: probublica.org






Before he helped fire most Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staffers, DOGE’s Gavin Kliger was warned about his investments and advised to not take any actions that could benefit him personally, according to a person familiar with the situation.


by Jake Pearson May 7, 2025, 6 a.m. EDT


Last month, a Department of Government Efficiency aide at the nation’s consumer watchdog agency was told by ethics attorneys that he held stock in companies that employees are forbidden from owning — and was advised not to participate in any actions that could benefit him personally, according to a person familiar with the warning.

But days later, court records show, Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old software engineer who has been detailed to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since early March, went ahead and participated in mass layoffs at the agency anyway, including the firings of the ethics lawyers who had warned him.

Experts said that Kliger’s actions, which ProPublica first reported on last week, constitute a conflict of interest that could violate federal criminal ethics laws. ......there are strict prohibitions on the investments that employees can maintain.
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Richard Briffault, a government ethics expert at Columbia Law School, said the fact that Kliger was warned not to take any actions that could benefit him personally showed that “he’s on notice that this is a problem, as opposed to doing this by accident, or unintentionally.”

But Briffault said there would likely be no recourse for Kliger’s actions given that the Department of Justice under President Donald Trump has “greatly deprioritized public integrity, ethics and public corruption as issues for them.” The New York Times reported last week that the section handling such cases is down to just a handful of lawyers.

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Read more: https://www.propublica.org/article/cfpb-gavin-kliger-doge-conflict-of-interest-consumer-financial-protection-bureau

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well, this is a bunch of crap!=--looks like trumpy aids can violate laws but since Trumps Justice dept won't investigate, they can continue. whow!



Melanie D’Arrigo‬ ‪@darrigomelanie.bsky.social‬
· 5h
A 25-year-old DOGE bro at the CFPB held $715,000 in stocks that ethics lawyers told him he wasn’t allowed to own while working there — then DOGE fired those ethics lawyers.

This is corruption.
Always call it out.

A 25-year-old DOGE bro at the CFPB held 5,000 in stocks that ethics lawyers told him he wasn’t allowed to own while working there — then DOGE fired those ethics lawyers.

This is corruption.
Always call it out.

— Melanie D’Arrigo (@darrigomelanie.bsky.social) 2025-05-07T11:36:57.201Z

[Faux pas]

1. The asshole "leaders"

and their minions are all crooked as hell or they wouldn't have been recruited.

[mackdaddy]

2. Problem is the DOJ that would prosecute this is just as Corrupt and will do nothing.

'A fish rots from the head down' and Der Donnie down has corrupted the entire power structure of our government.

[Demovictory9]

3. Kliger said he felt compelled to join DOGE because he believes the government has been stifling conservative viewpoints,

https://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-engineer-explains-why-he-works-for-doge-2025-2

Kliger said he felt compelled to join DOGE because he believes the government has been stifling conservative viewpoints, forcing people to comply with arbitrary mandates, and getting bogged down with bureaucracy.

[LiberalArkie]

4. A list needs to be started by someone in congress of these people and misdeeds so that if the U.S. ever has a

functioning government again that they can be sent to Gitmo.

Someone Democratic committee needs to start it and have it public so that these kiddies will know that they are setting themselves up for.


House UnAmerican Activities Committee ?