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Politico reports on Brittany Kelm’s departure from the White House to lead the Washington office of a Houston oil company, and the ethics questions now raised about the connection between her role as a government official and corporate interests.

While departing government for the private sector is not inherently improper, “the ethics concern arises when that distance between an official’s public responsibilities and the private employment is so exceptionally close together, particularly when the official moves directly to a company whose interests she personally worked on while exercising governmental authority,” said Davina Hurt, director of government ethics.

Davina Hurt, director, government ethics, quoted by Politico.