Cummings Announces Expanded Probe Into DeVos’ Personal Email Use

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 12: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos listens to U.S. President Donald Trump talk to reporters during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House February 12, 2019 in Washington, ... WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 12: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos listens to U.S. President Donald Trump talk to reporters during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House February 12, 2019 in Washington, DC. Trump said he was not happy about the compromise legislation agreed to by Republicans and Democrats that would prevent a new partial federal government shutdown but said he would accept the deal. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said Monday that he is expanding an investigation into Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ personal email use.

In a letter to DeVos, Cummings said that he was acting due to information uncovered by the inspector general.

“New information has now come to light indicating that you and other Department officials violated the Department’s prohibition on using personal email accounts to conduct official business, violated the requirement in the Federal Records Act to forward these emails to your official account within 20 days, and violated the requirement in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to produce relevant records in response to public requests,” Cummings wrote. “This new information also indicates that you withheld from the Committee information it has been seeking on a bipartisan basis over the past two years.”

Read the full letter here:

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  1. But what about Hillary’s e-mails?

  2. Start paddling, Boopsie, it’s getting deep.

    but%20her%20emails

  3. Will there be a point when we stop the investigations and just ‘frog walk’ these assholes to the slammer?

    Just wondering on this, day 906, of hell.

  4. Why would a letter to anyone in the Trumpov Badministration be addressed “To the Honorable”?

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