DOGE Aide Who Helped Gut CFPB Was Warned About Potential Conflicts of Interest
DOGE Aide Who Helped Gut CFPB Was Warned About Potential Conflicts of Interest
DOGE Aide Who Helped Gut CFPB Was Warned About Potential Conflicts of Interest
Last month, a Department of Government Efficiency aide at the nation’s consumer watchdog agency was told by ethics attorneys that he held stock in companies that employees are forbidden from owning — and was advised not to participate in any actions that could benefit him personally, according to a person familiar with the warning.
But days later, court records show, Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old software engineer who has been detailed to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since early March, went ahead and participated in mass layoffs at the agency anyway, including the firings of the ethics lawyers who had warned him.
