- Ryan Zinke broke ethics rules while leading Trump’s Interior Dept., watchdog finds- The department’s inspector general found Zinke had repeated contact with developers about a real estate deal and lied about it to an ethics official. The Justice Department declined to bring charges. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/02/16/zinke-inspector-general-report/?amp%3B_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9vU_sqMquuy-mFXz6OsNORfm1gqVCgnZKzoKNewyDelynQ6_gxK1pLQ6UEMjFPfQ1na6g0s-6JZV32-6VINRvxQtjD5Q&%3B_hsmi=204232404&%3Butm_content=204232404&%3Butm_medium=email&%3Butm_source=hs_email 3 comments politics