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REUTERS
WASHINGTON
The top Democrat on the US Senate committee overseeing pensions on Monday asked the US Office of Government Ethics to assess whether President Donald Trump is violating the Constitution and federal bans on conflicts of interest.
Reuters reported on April 26 that public pension funds in at least seven US states periodically send millions of dollars to an investment fund that owns the upscale Trump SoHo Hotel and Condominium in New York City and pays a Trump company to run it, according to a Reuters review of public records.
"Trump may be profiting from the retirement plans of millions of our nation's public servants," Senator Patty Murray of Washington state wrote in a letter to Walter Shaub, the director of the Office of Government Ethics, citing the Reuters report.
The Office of Government Ethics is the US agency that oversees conduct within the executive branch and supervises ethics officials to ensure they are preventing conflicts of interest and other violations.
"This looks like exactly the type of monetary flow prohibited by the Constitution," said the senator.
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23/05/2017
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