Hegseth aide’s wife retreats from lobbying gig after reporter spots alarming move: report
The wife of a top Pete Hegseth aide is backing away from part of her new job after a reporter asked questions.
Jill Buria, whose husband Ricky Buria serves as Hegseth's chief of staff at the Pentagon, registered on Sunday to lobby the Defense Department on behalf of a federal contractor, according to a report published Thursday by Politico. After reporter Daniel Lippman reached out, her firm said she would no longer lobby the Pentagon.
Buria joined the lobbying shop Checkmate Government Relations last month and signed on to represent Cartridge Technologies, a federal data management contractor also known as CTI. The disclosure listed her alongside four Checkmate colleagues working on Pentagon acquisition issues for the company, which paid the firm $110,000 in the most recent quarter, Politico reported....