The former acting head of the nation's top railroad safety agency has resigned "effective immediately," the Department of Transportation said Saturday after POLITICO raised questions about whether he had been simultaneously working as a public relations consultant for a sheriff's department in Mississippi.
Heath Hall became the Federal Railroad Administration's acting administrator in June but subsequently appeared on at least two occasions in Mississippi media reports as a spokesman for the Madison County sheriff, in a community where Hall has long run a public relations and political consulting firm. The firm continued to receive payments from the county for its services from July to December, despite his pledge in a federal ethics form that it would remain "dormant" while he worked at DOT.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...th-hall-402093
Is there anyone in the Trump administration who understands ethics? People thought Gen. Kelly might be the exception, but he proved himself as ethically challenged as the rest of them.