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Nikki Haley was facing a formal complaint over ethics after series of private jet flights...
Daily Mail ^ | 9 October 2018 | GEOFF EARLE

Posted on 10/10/2018 2:13:38 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

FULL TITLE: Nikki Haley was facing a formal complaint over ethics after series of private jet flights funded by businessmen from her native South Carolina.

UN ambassador Nikki Haley, who stunned Washington with her surprise announcement she is resigning her post, was facing an ethics complaint over her acceptance of private travel between South Carolina and Washington, D.C.

Haley had disclosed the flights on her government form for 2017. But the issue of improper private jet uses has dogged multiple administration officials, and led to the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed the complaint against Haley, who has earned high marks for navigating global affairs and the challenges of the Trump administration, on Monday.

The complaint noted she accepted flights from three separate businessmen from her home state of South Carolina on luxury aircraft between the state and Washington, D.C. She was accompanied by her husband on the flights.

Haley claimed exceptions due to personal relationships with the jet owners.

Federal ethics regulations prohibit employees from soliciting or accepting gifts given because of the employee’s official position. They also direct employees to consider declining otherwise permissible gifts if they believe a reasonable person would question their integrity or impartiality as a result of accepting the gifts,' according to the letter from CREW seeking an Office of Inspector General probe.

'Ambassador Haley asserted that each flight qualified for an exception to the rules for gifts based on personal relationships with the donors,' according to the letter. 'It is not clear, however, that the personal relationship exception applied to these gifts.'

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Hmmm. Is this the reason she left? Bye.
1 posted on 10/10/2018 2:13:38 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Flying commercial doesn’t seem right either...


2 posted on 10/10/2018 2:21:38 AM PDT by Does so (If Trump Colluded with Russians, Why Did Hillary Win The Popular Vote?)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel
I was disappointed when President Trump chose Nikki Haley. Her job as Governor was to hold firm for the values and history of South Carolina. Instead, she caved on preserving history and culture. Does it really surprise anyone that she thought it was okay to take flights on a deep-pocket donors planes because they were friends? That she became part of the US being on the wrong side in the Mideast?

The only surprise is the elitists who think the laws don't apply to them still do this stuff.

3 posted on 10/10/2018 2:26:51 AM PDT by grania ("You don't give power to an angry left wing mob")
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Well....I guess it’s good she left.

Why are these people so stupid about these things?


4 posted on 10/10/2018 2:37:49 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt
On the "Flip Side"..., at least the US Taxpayers don't pay for the trips! If she submitted travel vouchers..., (doubtful), a different story!
5 posted on 10/10/2018 2:44:20 AM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

So, she fully disclosed the information and apparently whichever department that is responsible for reviewing such things determined that it was okay. Then a liberal hit group that has harrassed the Trump administration from the beginning complains ....


6 posted on 10/10/2018 2:48:46 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: grania

She also brought a lot of business to South Carolina and ran a clean administration. She had to endure a lot of racism and slurs against women. There are still too many people dreaming of the Ante Bellam South.


7 posted on 10/10/2018 2:56:51 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Thr Marxist left has put a target on Trump’s administrators when their out and about in public.


8 posted on 10/10/2018 2:57:17 AM PDT by exPBRrat (.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel
We ought to start a "I want to fly on my private jet ping list".

I can't say I blame them, flew in a G3 once 37 minutes for what was normally 8 hrs of driving.

After what Rand Paul went through the other day at the airport with the crazies harassing him, maybe it should be a security perk from now on.

More importantly what does it say about flying commercial, no one wants to do it anymore, it sucks....

9 posted on 10/10/2018 3:07:24 AM PDT by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Song o and my guess .anyf Angry Men!")
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel
More BS from the Brit Left Wing rag , The Daily Trump Smear .
These lefties are still mad Melania Trump won Millions against them and there bias hate .
Every day is a new Trump Admin Smear .
Trump needs to sue them again .
10 posted on 10/10/2018 3:07:40 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselves)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Anymore a lot of these ethics rules are just a set-up for Liberal activists to take down Republicans whenever the mood strikes them.

a la Sarah Palin.


11 posted on 10/10/2018 3:09:43 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Jimmy Valentine

Wanting to preserve our heritage is NOT ‘dreaming about ante vellum South’

Our ancestors fought in that war and are buried in those graves....

Don’t even think about erasing history!


12 posted on 10/10/2018 3:10:06 AM PDT by Guenevere
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Haley disclosed it. And the govt saved costs. The REAL problem would have been if it hadn’t been disclosed and the money was pocketed.

But, the piranha press would have tasted blood in the water... and even the slightest impropriety would have been hammered on until the press had a mutilated Trump admin official hanging in effigy.


13 posted on 10/10/2018 3:11:25 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Guenevere

Antebellum!


14 posted on 10/10/2018 3:12:04 AM PDT by Guenevere
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

CREW - yet another Soros funded hit squad

http://crewexposed.com/who-is-crew/crews-left-wing-funders/


15 posted on 10/10/2018 3:26:33 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: grania

That she became part of the US being on the wrong side in the Mideast?


And because of that ME stance she was thanked by Bibi. Not Abbas. And thanked by the rest of us who do not like the ultra-violent Palestinians (aka, cannon-fodder) - the scum of the Arab world according to other Arabs.


16 posted on 10/10/2018 3:26:55 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

I am sketchy about South Asians who talk thru their teeth ( and hate Confederate heritage)


17 posted on 10/10/2018 3:32:30 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: An.American.Expatriate

this is a joke. She disclosed. Tom Price didn’t or at least totally flaunted his extravagance.

She told Trump months ago that she was going to leave...


18 posted on 10/10/2018 3:38:08 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

She’s cute, but after the Confederate Flag debacle, I have no use for her.


19 posted on 10/10/2018 3:49:09 AM PDT by real saxophonist (You can play a shoestring if you're sincere. - John Coltrane)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Is there a reason I should be mad at a Republican governor for getting rid of a Democrat flag that stood for one of many Democrat temper tantrums that cost lives?

What next, defend the Antifa flag? Why not? Same party, same entitlement mindset, and same use of violence against its opponents.

20 posted on 10/10/2018 3:59:19 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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