All posts tagged "Shelley K. Finlayson"

In April 2023, as Donald Trump continued to delay submitting a personal financial disclosure required for all presidential candidates, federal government officials responsible for compelling Trump’s compliance mused over whether the former president would simply ignore them.

After all, these government officials are lawyers at the U.S. Office of Government Ethics — the very kind of “deep state” denizens that Trump has vowed to purge if he wins the White House in November.

And they had good reason to believe Trump might simply go rogue: the former president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate had already blown past a final, mid-March federal deadline for offering up details about his personal wealth. ...

More than two months after filing a federally required financial report, former President Donald Trump got approval Tuesday from the U.S. Office of Government Ethics — with a notable caveat.

“OGE notes that several of the assets on this report are the subject of dispute in the case of New York v. Donald Trump, et al.,” said an unusual notation on Trump’s public financial disclosure report, which was certified Tuesday by Shelley K. Finlayson, acting director, chief of staff and program counsel for the Office of Government Ethics.

“However, the time period at issue in that case does not appear to overlap with the reporting period of this report. OGE does not independently verify the value of the reported assets. In certifying this report, OGE relied on the valuation of assets reported by the filer,” the Office of Government Ethics’ notation reads....